Chorzów – Radzionków railway line
| Chorzów Stary – Radzionków Chorzow / Königshütte (Oberschles) Ost – Radzionkau |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Route number : | 145 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 19,956 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 50 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Chorzów – Radzionków railway is a railway line in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship that is still partly used for freight traffic and partly closed .
Course and condition
The line began in 1925 at the Chorzów Stary station (Chorzow / Königshütte (Oberschles) Ost; km 0.571) on the Chorzów – Tczew railway line and runs northwards via Brzeziny Śląskie (birch grove; km 7.650), formerly the end of the Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Brzezą line , the JuP junction, where the connecting line from the “Julian” coal mine meets, the former Piekary Śląskie stop (German Piekar Hp; km 11.072) and Piekary Śląskie Szarlej (Scharley / Deutsch Piekar; km 12.884) to Radzionków (Radzionkau; km 17.525 ), again on the Chorzów – Tczew railway line.
The line is not electrified and no longer double-tracked, impassable between Chorzów Stary and km 6,600, then up to km 13,300 at twenty, then at fifty kilometers per hour.
Until 1925 the route ran from Chorzow via Beuthen West to Scharley.
history
The old route Chorzow - Beuthen West - Scharley - Radzionkau was opened on November 15, 1868 by the right bank railway . After the Upper Silesian uprisings and the referendum in Upper Silesia , East Upper Silesia was added to Poland , but both the Chorzow – Beuthen (Oberschles.) Hbf – Radzionkau line and the Chorzow – Beuthen West – Radzionkau line partly ran on German territory. Therefore, the latter was relocated to the east on November 5, 1925, so that it no longer ran over the German Beuthen, but over the Polish Brzeziny Śląskie , it was opened on two tracks, the Szarlej – Radzionków section, which was still in use, was expanded on two tracks. After the occupation of Poland in 1939, the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
Since the Second World War , the Chorzów Stary – Bytom – Radzionków route has been running over entirely Polish territory. On the railway line Chorzów – Brzeziny Śląskie – Radzionków was set on April 1, 1968 between Chorzów Stary and Brzeziny Śląskie, on May 29, 1976 on the remaining line. The second track was taken out of service between 1945 and 2002, and today only the Brzeziny Śląskie – Radzionków section can be used.
Literature and web link
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. R21
- Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
Individual proof
- ↑ Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from December 6, 2017