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3 unusual facts about Schöneweide–Spindlersfeld branch line


Schöneweide–Spindlersfeld branch line

From 15 August 1903, overhead electrification with AC power (6 kV, 25 Hz) was tested on the line by the company Union-Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (UEG), which merged the following year with AEG.

On the other side, there was a loading facility for VEB Müllabfuhr (the state waste-disposal company).

Parallel with the trials on the Spindlersfeld line, tests were carried out by AEG and Siemens & Halske, under a joint venture called Studiengesellschaft für Elektrische Schnellbahnen, with AC on the Royal Prussian Military Railway (Königlich Preußische Militär-Eisenbahn) between Marienfelde and Zossen.



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