Railway line Łódź – Dębica

Łódź – Dębica
Sandomierz train station
Route number :	25th
Course book range :	114, 115, 126
Route length:	323.262 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Łódź – Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Skarżysko-Kamienna – Chmielów 3 kV  =
Top speed:	120 km / h
Dual track :	Łódź – Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Skarżysko-Kamienna – Zalesie Gorzyckie
Legend by Zgierz 0.000 Łódź Kaliska (1943: Litzmannstadt Hbf) 200 m 1.229 Łódź Kaliska Towarowa (1943: Litzmannstadt Karlshof) to and from Zduńska Wola Connection of the thermal power station 197 m 3,794 Łódź Pabianicka (since 2013) 199 m Landesstrasse 14 Landesstrasse 1 6,926 Łódź Chojny ( Inselbahnhof ; 1943: Litzmannstadt Süd) 201 m to Łódź Widzew 11,189 Łódź Olechów Viaduct 219 m 12,164 Łódź Olechów Zachód 220 m 14,905 Łódź Olechów 218 m 14.783 Łódź Olechów Wschód 219 m to Łódź Widzew from Łódź Widzew 18.057 Bedoń (since 1927) 212 m 21.001 Justynów (since 1933; 1943: Justenau) 226 m 24.207 Gałkówek (Galkau Gedob Krakow ) 219 m after Koluszki 28,453 Żakowice Południowe (since 1945; formerly Hp) 209 m Piotrków Trybunalski – Skierniewice Junction Targets after Koluszki from Koluszki Słotwiny 206 m 33.967 1.158 Mikołajów (since 1930) 198 m Military sidings 4.032 Regny 195 m 39,959 Wykno (since 1910) 196 m 43.726 Zaosie (since 1931; former train station) 198 m 47.698 Skrzynki (since 1910) 193 m Expressway 8 State road 48 55,700 Tomaszów Mazowiecki 163 m to Spała Pilica (Pilitza) to Drzewica Mine connection 61,398 Jeleń 178 m 67.405 Bratków (since 1910) 190 m Mine connection 72.895 Szadkowice (since 1915; former train station) 192 m 76.074 Słomianka (since 1942; former train station) 206 m Central railway line 81.901 Opoczno 185 m Landesstrasse 12 87.424 Sitowa (from 1942) 190 m 92.967 Petrykozy (from 1910) 202 m Łódź Voivodeships and Holy Cross 96.879 Ruda Białaczowska (from 1927) 214 m 99.571 Nałęcz (since 1942) 219 m connection 102.339 Kornica (1933–1940, from 1948) 224 m Sidings 105.654 Końskie 238 m Landesstrasse 42 112.158 Wąsosz Konecki (from 1942) 259 m 115.140 Czarniecka Góra (from 1927) 266 m Landesstrasse 42 119.163 Stąporków 268 m Hut connection Czarna Konecka 123.417 Wólka Plebańska (since 1942) 282 m connection 128.270 Sołtyków (from 1910) 282 m Kamienna 131.729 Gilów (from 1953) 279 m 133.831 Bliżyn 270 m Landesstrasse 42 137,601 Brzask (from 1915) 259 m Landesstrasse 42 Expressway 7 141.149 Skarżyko Milica (from 1910) 242 m from Kielce 143.513 Skarżysko-Kamienna 244 m to Radom to the freight yard Freight depot from Radom via the freight yard SKE 146.203 Skarżysko Kościelne (since 1950) 233 m 149.631 Grzybowa Góra (from 1944) 222 m 152.425 Marcinków (since 1910) 220 m 155.335 Wąchock (since 1910) 220 m 155.898 Starachowice (since 1933; 1943: Starachowice West) 207 m 161.698 Starachowice Wschodnie 207 m Starachowice Wschodnie Wąskotorowe Narrow-gauge railway to Iłża 165.860 Starachowice Michałów (former train station) 207 m 168.996 Styków Iłżecki (former train station) 205 m 172.740 Brody Iłżecki (former train station) 190 m Landesstrasse 9 176.700 Staw Kunowski (former station; 1943: Kunow) 186 m Nietulisko (1927-1939, 1945-1947) 185 m Mining connection 181.990 Kunów (since 1923; 1943: Kunow City) 190 m 184,958 Boksycka (since 1942; former train station) 190 m Landesstrasse 9 Kamienna Sidings 189.122 Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski 174 m Landesstrasse 9 Sidings 193,560 Bodzechów 170 m Hut connection 197.580 Brbestowa Opatowska (1950-2006) 166 m 201.091 Ćmielów 172 m 204.812 Drygulec (1954-2006) 197 m 206.230 Ożarów Cementownia (since 1970) 193 m 209.257 Jasice (until 2006) 202 m State road 74 214.721 Jakubowice 205 m State road 79 Pisary (until 1966) 200 m 222.829 Stary Garbów 196 m Słupcza (until 1946) connection 230.167 Dwikozy 148 m connection 234,800 Metan (1939-2006) 148 m 235.248 Zalesie Gorzyckie 146 m Vistula Sidings 240.957 1.387 Sandomierz 145 m State road 77 Świętokrzyskie Voivodeships and Subcarpathian Region 244,834 3,876 Wielowieś (1927-2006) 146 m 7.915 Furmany junction 149 m to and from Olendry 10.783 Grębów 149 m to Stalowa Wola 248.502 Sobów 149 m 252.905 Tarnobrzeg 158 m 257.532 Ocice (since 1938) 153 m to Rzeszów 1,500 Machów 172 m 260.209 0.000 Chmielów koło Tarnobrzega 172 m to Staszów Landesstrasse 9 264,100 Dąbrowica Małopolska (1927-2009) 153 m 267.782 Scopanie (1951-2009) 155 m 268.995 Baranów Sandomierski (until 2009) 155 m by Wola Baranowska Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa 275.025 Padew 157 m 279,345 Jaślany (until 2009) 160 m 282.620 Tuszów Narodowy (1892-2009) 162 m 286.110 Chorzelów (until 2009) 163 m connections 291,933 Mielec 175 m 295,704 Wojsław (from 1957) 173 m 299.914 Rzochów 176 m 302.480 Rzemień (1893-2009) 177 m 305.980 Przecław Tuszyma (1892-2009) 180 m 307.626 Dąbie koło Dębicy (until 2009) 181 m 310.741 Pustków (until 2009) 184 m Connection LERG 314,568 Kochanówka Pustków (since 1915) 189 m Autobahn 4 320.030 Pustynia (1940-2009) 193 m Connection WUCH to Rzeszów 321,451 Dębica Towarowa (since 1943) 193 m Connection to Tikkurila from Rzeszów 323.262 Dębica 196 m to Tarnów

The Łódź – Dębica railway is a partially double-track, partially electrified and partially only freight line in the Polish voivodeships of Łódź , Świętokrzyskie and Subcarpathian .

course

The line begins at Łódź Kaliska station - the end of the Bednary – Łódź line and the start of the Łódź – Forst (Lausitz) line - and runs south of the city center via Łódź Chojny (km 6,926) - the start of the Łódź Chojny – Łódź Widzew line - and the Łódź Olechów freight station (km 14.905) to the junction south of Koluszki - from Bedoń (km 18.057) parallel to the Łódź – Koluszki railway line . At Koluszki, the Warsaw – Katowice railway line crosses , but Koluszki station itself is not on the line. A connecting line from there meets the Łódź – Dębica railway at Mikołajów station (km 33.967), where a short, disused and formerly electrified branch to the Regny military area branches off. The next important station is Tomaszów Mazowiecki (km 55,700), long-distance train station, the beginning of the Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Radom railway, which is now only served by long-distance passenger transport, and the Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Spała railway, which is no longer regularly used for passenger transport .

The line continues southeast via Opoczno (km 81.901) near the junction with the Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie railway , the so-called Central Railway Mainline , Końskie (km 105.664) and Stąporków (km 119.163) to Skarżysko-Kamienna (km 143.422), where the railway line is Warszawa – Kraków is crossed; Scheduled passenger traffic is no longer operated between Opoczno and Skarżysko-Kamienna. Next, the route runs southeast through the long-distance train stations (one pair of trains per day) Wąchock (km 155.335), Starachowice Wschodnie (km 161.998) - Beginning of the museum schmalspurbahn Starachowice Iłża , Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski (km 189.122) - end point of public transport - and Sandomierz (km 249.957) - the beginning of the connection line used by this pair of long-distance trains to the Sobów – Stalowa Wola railway line , which begins at Sobów station (km 248.502) - to Tarnobrzeg (km 252.905). The Ocice – Rzeszów railway branches off at the Ocice station to the south , and the Włoszczowice – Chmielów koło Tarnobrzega railway line, which is only used by freight traffic , at the Chmielów koło Tarnobrzega station (km 260.209) and a short freight line to Machów . The railway line Lodz Dębica runs further south over the station Padew where the distance from the station Wola Baranowska at the hut broad gauge track incident and Mielec , with about 60,000 inhabitants, one of the largest Polish cities without access to rail passenger transport, to Debica on the railway line Kraków- Medyka .

State of development

The track is of Lodz Kaliska to Tomaszów double track and electrified until skarżysko-kamienna single track and not electrified until Zalesie Gorzyckie at the Weichselbrücke at Sandomierz double track and electrified until Chmielów koło Tarnobrzega single track and electrified, on the remaining distance to Dębica single track and not electrified.

The maximum speed between Łódź and Tomaszów Mazowiecki for passenger and freight trains is sixty to one hundred kilometers per hour, to Skarżysko-Kamienna eighty for passenger and seventy for freight trains, further to Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski on one track for passenger trains mostly a hundred to one hundred and ten on the other mostly only fifty. For freight trains, there are up to ninety and also mostly fifty. It is only fifty kilometers per hour on one track to Sandomierz, while on the other it is up to one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour for passenger trains and fifty or eighty for freight trains. As far as Ocice, the route from Sandomierz can be traveled at up to one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour in passenger traffic, in freight traffic up to eighty. To Mielec it is seventy to ninety or sixty, to Dębica only twenty to forty, regardless of the type of train.

history

Between Mikołajów and Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski , the line was opened in 1885 by the Ivangorod-Dombrow Railway , and between Sandomierz and Dębica on October 30, 1887 by the Galician Carl Ludwig Railway . In 1903 the section Łódź Kaliska – Łódź Chojny (–Łódź Widzew) was opened to connect the railway line Łódź – Koluszki with the 1902 opened Bednary / Łowicz – Łódź - Kalisch line. In 1915, during the First World War, the Vistula Śrzwięt Railway closed the gap Ostrowiec Sandomierz opened. The missing piece Łódź Chojny – Mikołajów was opened under German occupation in 1941.

On January 21, 1958 the section Łódź – Bedoń was electrified, in 1973 the electrified section was extended to Mikołajów, since December 31, 1974 the following section to Tomaszów Mazowiecki has been operated electrically. The short section Dębica – Dębica Towarowa has been electrified since September 26, 1963. The line between Skarżysko-Kamienna and Wąchock has been electrified since September 10, 1982, until September 16, 1987 this electrified section was extended to Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski, to Sandomierz until December 22, 1987, and to Chmielów until December 15, 1989.

In 1930 the branch line to Regny (route number 44) was opened, electrified in 1983, on October 1, 1999 passenger traffic was discontinued, and in 2000 the route was de-electrified.

On December 1, 2006 the local passenger traffic Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski – Sobów was discontinued, on August 1, 2009 the passenger traffic Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Skarżysko-Kamienna was discontinued, on December 9, 2012 the traffic on the section Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Opoczno was resumed. On September 1, 2009, the Tarnobrzeg –Dębica passenger traffic was discontinued, and on December 13th, it was reactivated on the short Tarnobrzeg – Ocice section on the occasion of the reactivation of passenger traffic on the Ocice – Rzeszów railway.

Literature and web links

Commons : Łódź – Dębica railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ryszard Stankiewicz, Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. E7-8, F8-10, G10.
• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)

Remarks

1. ↑ German station names from the time of the Second World War are given if they differ significantly from the Polish name.
2. ↑ According to Stankiewicz / Stiasny, contradicting atlaskolejowy.net ( memento of the original from April 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from January 9, 2018