Głomno – Białystok railway line

Białystok – Głomno
Route number :	PKP 38 Białystok – Głomno
Course book range :	PKP 510 (Olsztyn–) Korsze – Ełk PKP 535 Ełk – Białystok
Route length:	241.453 km
Gauge :	Głomno – Białystok: 1435 mm Głomno – Bartoszyce: 1520 mm
Top speed:	120 km / h
Legend from Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) from Stablack 245.7 Bagrationowsk (Prussian Eylau) 241.289 State border Russia / Poland (1945–1991 Soviet Union / Poland) Lejdy Molwity junction 235.114 Głomno (Glommen) PV until 1991 80 m Connection silo from Friedland Łyna (All) 225.650 Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) PV until 2002 51 m from and to Lidzbark Warmiński (Heilsberg) 222.85 Karolków junction 50 m 220.24 Tromity 46 m 216.190 Wiatrowiec Warmiński (word germ) 43 m 1867–1999 Bhf., Then Hp, PV until 2002 Kleinbahn Wöterkeim – Schippenbeil to Sępopol (Schippenbeil) 212.445 Różyna Warmińska PV until 2002, former Bf. 39 m 208.755 Studziniec (Wormen) PV until 2002 53 m 204.77 Głowbity (Faith) 55 m from Toruń (Thorn) 202.044 Korsze (Korschen) island train station 62 m to Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg) 192.288 Tołkiny (Tolksdorf) 89 m 189.285 Linkowo since 1972 92 m by Reszel (Rößel) 184.332 Nowy Młyn (Neumühl (Ostpr)) former letter, since 1908 77 m 180.375 Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) 95 m Kętrzyn Wąskotorowy (Rastenburg Klbf) Connection of sugar factory | to Barciany (Barten) to Węgorzewo (Angerburg) to Ryn and Mrągowo (Rhine and Sensburg) 169.633 Martiany (Mertenheim (Ostpr)) since around 1930 133 m 165.394 Sterławki Wielkie (Groß Stürlack) 125 m 160.546 Sterławki Małe (Klein Stürlack) since 1936 123 m Connection Prefabet 154.373 Niegocin (Boyen) former applicant, since 1907 122 m State road 59 Kanał Giżycki (swing bridge from 1868 to January 25, 1945) 150.976 Giżycko (Lötzen) 120 m to Arys to Kruklanki (Kruglanken) Landesstrasse 63 141.217 Siedliska (Schedlisken / Dankfelde) former letter , since 1900 141 m 132.818 Wydminy (Widminnen) 146 m Connection of gravel mining 121.863 Starlings Juchy (Jucha / Fließdorf) 133 m Concrete plant connection 112.113 Woszczele (Woszellen / Neumalken) former letter, since 1895 131 m Landesstrasse 16 by Orzysz (Arys) by Olecko (Marggrabowa / Treuburg) Ełk Wąskotorowy (Lyck Kleinbf.) 103.236 Ełk (Elk) 128 m to Zawady-Tworki and to Turowo connections 101.740 Ełk Towarowy (since 1958) 127 m Landesstrasse 65 to Pisz 100.478 Ełk Szyba Wschód (Sybba Ost / Walden Ost) since 1903 126 m connection 93,083 Lipińskie Małe (Lipinsken / Lindenfließ) former applicant , since 1938 122 m Landesstrasse 65 Military connection 88.008 Prostki (Prostken) 121 m until 1917 border German Reich / Russian Reich 1918–1939 border German Reich / Poland 1939–1941 border German Reich / Soviet Union Warmia-Masurian / Podlaskie voivodeship border 82,477 Grajewo (Grajewo) 123 m State road 61 74.055 Ruda former applicant, since 1910 121 m 70.379 Podlasek (Podlask) since 1941 118 m 66.2 ( Galinderheide ) Biebrza Landesstrasse 65 Military connection 57.232 Osowiec (Osowiec) 112 m Military connection 52,350 Goniądz (Bednary) former applicant, since 1941 135 m Landesstrasse 65 43.872 Mońki (Monki) 169 m 37,351 Czechowizna since 1947 125 m 32,385 Zastocze since 1986 131 m 28,437 Knyszyn (Knyszyn) 113 m 21,270 Borsukówka since 1939 114 m 15.112 Dobrzyniewo Duże ( Rybaki ) former applicant , since 1941 115 m 12.635 Fasty since 1951 125 m Connection ZPW Fasty Landesstrasse 8 8.013 Białystok Bacieczki since 1957 133 m connections 4,555 Białystok Starosielce (Starosielce) 144 m to Warsaw from Warsaw Białystok Viaduct to Czeremcha from Czeremcha from Czeremcha 0.000 Białystok (Bialystok) 130 m to Białystok Fabryczny (Bialystok Industriebf) to Hrodna

The Polish railway line Białystok – Głomno runs from the Polish-Russian border in the former East Prussia in a south-easterly direction through the Masurian landscape to the center of the Podlaskie region , the city of Białystok . The track is the extension of in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast located railway line Kaliningrad-Bagrationowsk .

The line is mostly single-track, only the section from Głomno to Bartoszyce , which is no longer in operation, consists of a standard-gauge and a broad-gauge track. There is freight traffic from Bartoszyce and passenger traffic from Korsze . The section from Ełk to Białystok is electrified. The border crossing into the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast has been closed since 2001.

Course and state of development

Mońki Railway Station (2014)

The Kilometrierung according to the route starts at the station Białystok (Bialystok) on the railway Warszawa-Hrodna (earlier Saint Petersburg-Warsaw Railway ), which is also the end point of the railway line Czeremcha-Białystok and start of only one piece of navigable railway Białystok-Vawkavysk , and extends first briefly south-west, then north-west via the long-distance train stations Białystok Starosielce (Starosielce; km 4.555), from which connecting tracks from Ełk towards Warsaw and Czeremcha used to run, Mońki (Monki; 43.872), Osowiec (Osowiec; km 57.232) and Grajewo (Grajewo) ; km 82.477), located shortly before the former Russian-German border, to the long-distance train station Ełk (Lyck; km 103.236), the beginning of the Ełk – Gołdap line, which is only served by freight as far as Olecko, and the end point of the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line and no more continuously passable railway line Czerwonka – Ełk is. The line runs further north-west via the long-distance railway stations Giżycko (Lötzen; km 150.976), the beginning of the Lötzen – Angerburg railway line, which was only partially used after the Second World War, and the Lötzen – Johannisburg railway line, which was no longer operated , and Kętrzyn (Rastenburg), the beginning of the Railway line Kętrzyn – Węgorzewo and former center of the Rastenburg small railways , and the stop and former station Nowy Młyn (Neumühl (East Prussia); km 184.332), the end point of the former railway line Sątopy-Samulewo – Nowy Młyn , to the long-distance train station Korsze (Korschen; km 202.044) on the Toruń – Chernyakhovsk railway , which forms the end of the section that is still used by passenger traffic. The line continues via Wiatrowiec Warmiński (Wöterkeim; km 216.190), the disused starting station of the former Wöterkeim – Schippenbeil small railway , Bartoszyce (Bartenstein; km 225.650), end point of the former lines from Lidzbark Warmiński and Wehlau , and Głomno (Glommen; km 235.114) to the Polish-Russian border at Bagrationowsk (Prussian Eylau), where the line merged into the line to Kaliningrad . However, after Bartoszyce it is no longer passable.

Today, the line is single-track and electrified with 3000 volts DC to Ełk.

The maximum permitted speed up to the kilometer point is 84.900 hundred kilometers per hour for passenger trains and eighty for freight trains, up to the kilometer point 100.752 one hundred twenty and one hundred, up to the kilometer point 110.800 for all types of train, one hundred, up to the kilometer point 200.815 for all types of train eighty and up to the kilometer point 226.630 for all types of train fifty, after which the route is impassable.

history

Historically, the railway line Bialystok-Głomno is part of the route from Kaliningrad , Russian Kaliningrad , in today located in Belarus Brest , in the 19th century by the East Prussian Southern Railway Company and from the Russian Brest-Grajewsker railroad was built. In the former German Reich Bartenstein was starting (of Königsberg on 24 September 1866 Polish Bartoszyce ), Rastenburg (on November 1, 1867 Polish Kętrzyn ) and on December 8, 1868 Elk ( polish Elk reached). In 1871 an agreement was reached with the then Russian Empire on a connection from Lyck to Brest , which was completed in 1873. The German part was made in standard gauge, while the Russian part was laid out in broad gauge. These tracks lay parallel between the border stations Prostken ( Polish: Prostki ) and Grajewo . This continuous German-Russian connection was primarily intended to serve Russian grain exports. From 1894 the section from Korschen (in Polish: Korsze ) to Lyck had two tracks, from 1905 that from Königsberg to Korschen and that from Lyck to Prostken. From 1916 to 1920 the line between Białystok and Prostken was double-track.

Białystok Railway Station, 2011

After the First World War, the previously Russian part of the route came to Poland. The broad gauge track was re-gauged to standard gauge.

After Poland was re-divided by National Socialist Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939, there was a German-Soviet border crossing between Prostken and Grajewo. After the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941, the entire section from Königsberg to Białystok was assigned to the Königsberg Railway Directorate . Wysokie-Litewskie (Belarusian: Vysokaye ) became the border station to the so-called Reichskommissariat Ukraine , to which the city of Brest belonged . In 1942, the section from Prostken to Białystok was expanded to two tracks again.

Martiany stop (Mertenheim) , looking west, 2008

The section from Głomno to Białystok has belonged to Poland since the Second World War. The second tracks were dismantled again. Starting from Bartoszyce, a broad gauge track to Kaliningrad was also built. The border crossing that was built after 1945 near Głomno served freight traffic until 2001, which mainly consisted of grain deliveries to the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad. The section from Ełk to Białystok was electrified in 1990. Passenger traffic from Głomno to Bartoszyce ceased in 1991 and that from Bartoszyce to Korsze in 2002.

In Białystok, the infrastructure was also reduced: the connection route to Warsaw is no longer passable. Of the two lines that used to run from Białystok Starosielce to Białystok Railway Station, only one remains. Today TLK and local trains operate .

The line between Korsze and Ełk is to be renovated, electrified and provided with new platforms. The maximum speed is to be increased to 120 km / h. The trains will then cover the route 30 minutes faster. The funds were approved in 2017 and construction is scheduled to take place by 2023.

literature

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. A9 – A10, B10 – B12, C12

Web links

Commons : PKP 38 Białystok – Głomno  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Wikisource: Agreement between the German Empire and Russia to build a railway from Lyck to Brest-Litewsk. 8 July / 26 June 1871.  - Sources and full texts

• Białystok – Głomno railway line on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Railway line Białystok – Głomno on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wykaz linii Id-12 (D-29) , PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA, p. 128
2. ^ Wiatrowiec Warmiński. In: bazakolejowa.pl. Retrieved February 26, 2018 (Polish). 
3. ^ With Niegocin, not with Sterławki Małe
4. ↑ was possibly only a stop during the German occupation from 1941 to 1944
5. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from March 8, 2017
6. ↑ rus. Общество Бресто-Граевской железной дороги (Obschtschestvo Bresto-Grajewskoi schelesnoi dorogi)
7. ↑ Eisenbahn-Kurier Special 52: Ostpreußen , 1999, p. 66. The section from Lyck to Prostken had probably been expanded beforehand.
8. ↑ PKP Polskie Line Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains from March 8, 2017.
9. ↑ As of March 2017
10. ↑ Martyn Janduła: Przygotowania do elektryfikacji linii z Ełku do Korsz , Rynek Kolejowy, March 31, 2017, accessed on the same day
11. ↑ More than half a billion zlotys for a faster journey between Olsztyn and Ełk http://gazetaolsztynska.pl