Mikułowa Railway Station
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 Station building, track side (2016)
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| Operating point type | Stop / loading point |
| Location in the network | former separation station |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| opening | September 20, 1865 |
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| City / municipality | Sulików |
| Place / district | Mikułowa |
| Voivodeship | Lower Silesia |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 5 '42 " N , 15 ° 6' 31" E |
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| List of train stations in Poland | |
The Mikulowa station until 1945 Station Nikolausdorf is a place of business of the railway Wrocław-Zgorzelec (Görlitz-Wroclaw) and the beginning of this railway line Mikulowa-Bogatynia on the territory of the municipality Sulików in Poland . Today the former station, named after the place Mikułowa ( Nikolausdorf ), is only a stop with a loading point; the branch to Bogatynia is out of order.
history
The Nikolausdorf station already existed when the Silesian Mountain Railway opened on September 20, 1865. Although it is located in the corridor of the town of Schönbrunn (Studniska), it was named after the town of Nikolausdorf, two kilometers away. Initially, three continuous tracks with two platforms were sufficient; a loading platform with a goods shed was used for goods traffic.
The station got its current expansion with the two-track expansion of the Silesian Mountain Railway around 1900. In addition to the extension of the station tracks in an easterly direction, a new local freight facility with three tracks was built. At that time, the high-rise buildings consisted of the reception building, a goods shed with two hatches, a toilet, a farm building and a two-and-a-half-storey office building. Both station heads received mechanical signal boxes with form signals , which were installed in a separate signal tower for the eastern station head and in an extension in the reception building for the western station head. Since the 1920s there was a siding to a benzene tank farm owned by Voigt & Co.
With the electrification of the Silesian Mountain Railway between Görlitz and Lauban at the beginning of the 1920s, all of the tracks at Nikolausdorf station received an overhead line. As an experiment, spun concrete masts were erected in tandem to suspend the transverse structures , which are still completely intact today (2016). This type of catenary mast was unique in Germany. In later electrifications, steel lattice masts were (and are still today) used to suspend transverse structures, the erection of which is significantly easier due to the lower weight. The Kleinbahn Schönberg – Nikolausdorf bound its route in 1927 at the western head of the station without the station's facilities being significantly expanded. The passenger trains of the Kleinbahn began on a newly built short stump track west of the reception building.
Since the end of the Second World War , the Silesian Mountain Railway and thus also the Nikolausdorf station have been on the territory of the Republic of Poland. Shortly after the end of the war, the catenary systems and the second track were dismantled by the Soviet occupying forces as a reparation . On August 27, 1945, the station was given the new Polish name Nikorsk , which only existed for a short time. The current name Mikułowa has been in effect since July 16, 1947. The Polish State Railways (PKP) only invested the bare minimum in the facilities in the following decades.
In the 1960s, a connecting line to the Mikułowa substation was built at the eastern head of the station .
The station finally experienced complete decline after the complete suspension of travel on the Lubań – Zgorzelec line on September 30, 2002; the line to Bogatynia was taken out of service in April 2000. After the interlocking facilities were dismantled, the operating site was finally downgraded to a stop with a loading point on November 28, 2005, and the branching route towards Sulikow and Bogatynia was also abandoned. Since then, trains on this route have only operated via the connecting curve to and from Zgorzelec that was set up after 1945.
Since December 4, 2011, the stop has been regularly served by Koleje Dolnośląskie passenger trains on the Jelenia Góra – Zgorzelec route, and since December 2015 it has been back to Görlitz. In the 2017 annual timetable, the trains run every two hours .
literature
- Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 79-80 .
Web links
- Description on www.bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)