Railway Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Kraków

	from Warszawa
0.000	Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice	298 m
	to Katowice and Brzeziny Śląskie
	to Huta Katowice
2.875	Dąbrowa Górnicza Huta Katowice	299 m

	from the Warszawa – Katowice and Dąbrowa Górnicza – Brzeziny Śląskie lines

3,667	Dąbrowa Górnicza Huta Katowice podg	299 m
	after Dąbrowa Gornicza Strzemieszyce
7.537	Dąbrowa Górnicza Południowa	282 m

	Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce – D. G. Wschodnia
	by Dąbrowa Górnicza Towarowa

10.7	podg Dorota	272 m

	to Sosnowiec Dańdówka
	to the Jaworzno Szczakowa – Mysłowice line
	from the Euroterminal Sławków
	by Sosnowiec Kazimierz
13.276	Sosnowiec Maczki	265 m

	Biała Przemsza (formerly the state border between Russia and Austria)

14,425	Jaworzno Szczakowa Lokomotywownia	264 m
	from Mysłowice
	from Mysłowice
	by Jaworzno
15.810	Jaworzno Szczakowa	269 m
	to Bukowno

18,949	podg Pieczyska	283 m
20,839	Jaworzno Ciężkowice	288 m
	Border Śląskie - Małopolskie
25.969	Balin (formerly the train station)	318 m
	from Zebrzydowice
	from Trzebinia Siersza
	DK 79
31.716	Trzebinia	293 m
	according to Skawce
36.789	Dulowa	305 m
41.196	Wola Filipowska	281 m
45.097	Krzeszowice	260 m
	DK 79
51.634	Rudawa	243 m
57.515	Zabierzów	234 m
	DK 79
59.760	Kraków Business Park	231 m
	DK 7
61.852	Kraków Mydlniki-Wapiennik	237 m
63,304	Kraków Mydlniki	230 m
	from Kraków Lotnisko

	to Podłęże
67.541	Kraków Łobzów	221 m
68.174	Kraków Główny Towarowy	222 m
	from Tunel
	after Gaj
70.779	Kraków Główny	216 m
	to Tarnów

The Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Kraków railway is an approximately 71-kilometer double-track electrified main line in the Polish voivodeships of Śląskie (Silesia) and Małopolskie (Lesser Poland). The track is made up of two parts, of which the northern between Dąbrowa Górnicza and Maczki of the trains running on Russian-Polish territory Warsaw-Vienna railway , the southern of Maczki up to Kraków (Cracow) from the Austrian Upper Silesian Krakow Railway was opened .

course

The line begins at the Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice railway station on the Warszawa – Katowice railway line , which is also the start of the Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Brzeziny Śląskie railway line , runs southwards, under the Tunel – Sosnowiec railway line , crosses the 10.700 km Dorian line at the junction Górnicza Towarowa – Panewnik , runs via the Sosnowiec Maczki station (formerly Granica ; km 13.276) to the Jaworzno Szczakowa station (km 15.810), the end point of the Jaworzno Szczakowa – Mysłowice railway and the Bukowno – Jaworzno Szczakowa railway and the earlier beginning of the Szczakowa railway –Bolęcin . From here the route runs southeast to Trzebinia train station (km 31.716), the beginning of the Trzebinia – Zebrzydowice railway and formerly the Trzebinia – Skawce railway , then east to Krakow , at Kraków Mydlniki train station (km 63.304) you meet the route from the airport , at Kraków Główny Station (km 70.779), the main train station, on the route from Warsaw . The continuation of the Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Kraków line is the Kraków – Medyka line .

Status

The line is electrified throughout with 3000 volts DC and is double-tracked except for the short section from Sosnowiec Maczki to Jaworzno Szczakowa. The maximum speeds are sometimes extremely low: until shortly before Sosnowiec Maczki (km 12.366 / 12.429) the maximum speed is still 110 to 120 kilometers per hour, up to approximately the Pieczyska junction (km 19,000), depending on the track, sixty to one hundred and fifty to one hundred, then to about the Zabierzów train station (km 57.970) only forty to sixty, apart from the section of the route kilometers 33,200–35,600 on the opposite track with a permitted 100 kilometers per hour. Otherwise, the maximum speed on this section is largely fifty kilometers per hour. After that, ninety to kilometer point 62.750 on one track, fifty to 63.862 kilometer point, then eighty to one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour, on the other sixty to seventy kilometers up to 63.870, then eighty to one hundred and twenty kilometers.

history

Jaworzno Szczakowa railway station

After the first plans and the subsequent construction work for a connection from Warsaw to Austria failed until 1839 due to the lack of financial resources, the Polish government took over the administration of the responsible Warsaw-Vienna railway from 1843 and continued the construction work from 1844. The main line section between Częstochowa and Granica station ( border ) on the Russian-Austrian border was the last to open on April 1, 1848.

The southern section has already been opened by the Krakow-Upper Silesian Railway (KrOs) six months after it was launched on the initiative of the Krakow Senate in 1844. On October 13, 1847, the KrOs opened their main line between Krakow, Szczakowa and the Prussian border town of Myslowitz ( Mysłowice ). With the completion of the line coming from Warsaw, she set up a short branch line from Szczakowa over the White Przemsa ( Biała Przemsza ), which represented the border river, to Granica station . With its completion, the railway represented the first direct rail connection between the two empires of Russia and Austria.

The line between Trzebinia and Kraków has been double-tracked since 1878, and the rest of the line since the 1920s.

After 1918 the operation was carried out by the Polish Ministry of Transport, in 1920 it was transferred to the newly established Polish state railway Polskie Koleje Państwowe (PKP). This currently runs the line under number 133. The section from Jaworzno Szczakowa to Krakow has been electrified since April 29, 1959, and the section from Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice to Jaworzno Szczakowa has been electrified with 3000 volts DC since April 30 of the same year. The northern section between the Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice and Jaworzno Szczakowa stations is primarily used for freight traffic and is currently (as of April 2017) not served by passenger traffic. The southern section to Kraków, on the other hand, is part of the Polish rail corridor E 30, which is to be expanded as an east-west main line of southern Poland. Accordingly, the route is served by long-distance trains in addition to local passenger trains.

literature

Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8

Web links

Commons : Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Kraków railway line - collection of images, videos and audio files

Route on atlaskolejowy.pl (Polish)
Route on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from April 10, 2017
↑ ^a ^b eisenbahn.wikia: line openings in the area of today's Poland
↑ modernizacja linii E 30 / CE 30 (Polish)

[1] PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from April 10, 2017

[Streckeneröffnungen-2] senbahn.wikia: line openings in the area of today's Poland

[3] rnizacja linii E 30 / CE 30 (Polish)