Gdańsk – Stargard railway line

		from Warszawa
	0.000	Gdańsk Główny (Gdansk Central Railway Station)

	1.040	Gdańsk Stocznia
		to Gdańsk Nowy Port
	2.520	Gdańsk Politechnika
	4.180	Gdańsk Wrzeszcz (Danzig-Langfuhr)
		to the airport
	5.390	Gdańsk Zaspa (Gdansk Airport)
	6,983	Gdańsk Przymorze Uniwersytet
	8.080	Gdańsk Oliwa (Danzig-Oliva)
	9.270	Gdańsk Żabianka
	10.410	Sopot Wyścigi
	11.680	Sopot (Sopot)
	13,555	Sopot Kamienny Potok

		former state border Free City of Gdansk - Poland

	15.897	Gdynia Orłowo (Eagle's Nest)
	17,541	Gdynia Redłowo
	19.400	Gdynia Wzgórze Św. Maksymiliana
		by Nowa Wieś Wielka
	20.992	Gdynia Główna (Gdynia [Gotenhafen])
	21,819	Gdynia Stocznia


		to Gdynia Port

	23.729	Gdynia Grabówek
		Gdynia Postojowa
	25,043	Gdynia Leszczynki
	26,172	Gdynia Chylonia (Kielau)
		to Gdynia Port

	27.256	Gdynia Cisowa
	27.720	Gdynia Cisowa Postojowa
	28.710	Gdynia Cisowa Elektrowozownia
	30.215	Rumia Janowo (Johannesdorf)
		from Gdynia Port
		DK 6 (formerly R 2 )
	31,849	Rumia (Rahmel)

	35,536	Reda (Rheda (West Prussia))
		after Hel
	38.204	Reda Pieleszewo
	41.040	Wejherowo Śmiechowo
	42.893	Wejherowo Nanice
	43.995	Wejherowo (Neustadt (West Prussia))
		to Garczegorze

	48.608	Gościcino Wejherowskie (Gossentin (West Prussia))

	54,566	Luzino (Lusin / Lintzau)
	59.411	Strzebielino Morskie (Strebolsdorf)

		Łeba (Leba); Former state border Poland – German Empire

	63.653	Bożepole Wielkie (Greater Boschpol)
		DK 6 (formerly R 2)
	70.508	Godętowo
		from Pruszcz Gdański
		from Bytów
	79.745	Lębork (Lauenburg (Pomerania))
		to Łeba
	85.650	Leśnice (Lischnitz)
	87.814	Pogorzelice (Langeböse)
	98.464	Potęgowo (Pottangow)
	103,000	Głuszyno Pomorskie
	105.990	Strzyżyno Słupskie (Stresow (Kr Stolp))
		Łupawa (Lupow)
	112.654	Damnica (Hebrondamnitz)
	122.254	Jezierzyce Słupskie (Jeseritz)
		by Cecenowo
		Słupia (Stolpe)
		DK 21 (formerly R 125 )
		from Ustka
	131.173	Slupsk (Stolp)
		DK 6 (R 2)
		to Budowo
		to Piła
	139.582	Reblino (Alt Reblin)
		DK 6 (formerly R 2)
	144.370	Sycewice (Zitzewitz)
		Border Zachodniopomorskie - Pomorskie
	149.056	Wrześnica (Freetz)
		DK 6 (formerly R 2)
		Wieprza
		from Korzybie
		DK 6
	158.230	Sławno (Schlawe)
		to Polanów
		to Ustka
		to Darłowo
	167.217	Karwice (Karwitz (Kr Schlawe))
		Grabowa (Grabow)
	178.311	Wiekowo (Altwieck)
	186.607	Skibno (Schübben-Zanow)
		Dzierżęcinka
		DK 6 (formerly R 2), DK 11 (formerly R 160 )

	198,301	Koszalin (Köslin) (formerly the connection between Köslin and Belgarder Bahnen )

		to Goleniów
	202.868	Niekłonice (Neuklenz)
	207.810	Dunowo (Thunow)
		Radew (Radüe)
	212.009	Nosówko (Nassow (Bz Köslin))
	217.231	Kościernica (Kösternitz)
		from Kołobrzeg

	222.634	Białogard (Belgard) (formerly the connection between Köslin and Belgarder Bahnen )

		to and from Szczecinek
		Leśnica (Leitznitz)
		Parsęta (Persante)
		Köslin – Belgarder Bahnen
	230.522	Czarnowęsy Pomorskie (Zarnefanz)
		Mogilica (Muglitz)
		Mogilica
	239.058	Rąbino (Great Rambin)
	246,160	Nielep (Nelep)
		Rega
		by Połczyn Zdrój
	255.107	Świdwin (Schivelbein)
		Rega
		Mołstowa
	266.003	Klępnica (Glietzig)
		Rega
		to Wysoka Kamieńska
	269.671	Worowo (Wurow)

	276.708	Łobez (Labes) (formerly the connection to the Regenwalder Bahnen )

	284,313	Lesięcin (Lessenthin)
		from Chojnice
	288.718	Runowo Pomorskie (Ruhnow)
	294,421	Cieszyno Łobeskie (Teschendorf)
	305.886	Chociwel (Freienwalde (Pomerania))
		Krąpiel
		DK 20
	310.935	Lisowo (Vossberg)

	316.654	Trąbki (Trampke) (formerly the Saatziger Kleinbahnen connection )

		Saatziger small railways
		Krąpiel
	321,476	Gogolewo (Ebeneow)
		from Piła
	326,251	Ulikowo (Wulkow (Pomerania))
		DK 10 (formerly R 104 )
		Ina
		from Poznań and from Pyrzyce
		DK 10
	333.678	Stargard (Stargard (Pomerania))
		to Szczecin

The Gdańsk – Stargard railway is a partially double-track and fully electrified main railway line in the Pomorskie (Pomeranian) and Zachodniopomorskie (West Pomerania) voivodeships of the Republic of Poland . The line, built between 1859 and 1870 by the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BStE), represents the most important rail link in Eastern Pomerania and forms the eastern end of the Berlin – Gdańsk (Danzig) rail link .

Course and expansion

The line branches off at Stargard station from Szczecin (Stettin) coming from the railway line towards Poznań (Posen) and leads from there towards the northeast near the Pomeranian Baltic coast. As far as Köslin , the route approaches the coast, in the remaining section to Gdynia it continues parallel to it at a distance of around 25 kilometers. In Gdańsk the line connects to the railway line to Warsaw .

The entire length of the line is electrified with 3000 volts direct current ; it is only two-tracked between Stargard and Runowo Pomorskie and between Wejherowo and Gdańsk. The eastern section from Reda (Rheda) also has its own pair of electrified suburban tracks that run through to Gdańsk.

history

Station building in Stolp in 1869

In 1846, the BStE extended its main route from Stettin to Stargard. The short connection was the first branch in the network of the Pomeranian Railway. On June 1, 1859, the BStE opened the 135-kilometer section from Stargard to Köslin with a branch from Belgard to Kolberg . The route was extended on July 1, 1869 by 67 kilometers to Stolp . On July 1, 1870, the twelve-kilometer section from Danzig, which had been connected to the network of the Prussian Eastern Railways since 1852 , to Sopot followed . The approximately 120-kilometer-long section between Stolp and Sopot was completed two months later on September 1, 1870. This meant that the railway was continuously passable over its total length of around 330 kilometers. The operator was initially the BStE, after its takeover by the Prussian state , the Prussian State Railways took over the operation. The line was subordinated to the Royal Railway Directorate Stettin, from which the Reich Railway Directorate Stettin emerged in 1920 .

In the area of what is now the Tricity of Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia, the first preparatory measures for suburban traffic on its own tracks began in 1912. Due to the First World War , however, the work hardly progressed.

Course book table for route 140 of the PKP from 1936

As a result of the Versailles Treaty , the area east of Greater Boschpol ( Bożepole Wielkie ) and west of Sopot came to the newly founded Republic of Poland. The area of the cities of Sopot and Danzig came under the administration of the Free City of Danzig . Only a few passenger trains remained across borders. On the Polish and Danzig sections, the Polish State Railways (PKP), which in accordance with the provisions of the Versailles Treaty had taken over the route there and the Danzig Railway Directorate , ran almost every hour.

After the German Wehrmacht invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, the area ceded in the Versailles Treaty was annexed again. The traffic was carried out accordingly by the Reichsbahn. After 1945, the entire area east of the Oder-Neisse line came to Poland, including the connection between Stargard and Danzig.

Entrance building in Białogard

A short time later, the PKP received 189 cars from the Berlin S-Bahn as reparations . These were prepared for the still planned suburban traffic in the Danzig area. A separate line with 800 volts direct current was built for operation from 1950 parallel to the long-distance railway . In several sections, the section between Gdańsk and Gdynia was expanded to four tracks by 1956 .

In 1957, the PKP electrified the line from Gdynia to Wejherowo (formerly Neustadt) with 800 volts direct current, the trains of the suburban traffic known as Szybka Kolej Miejska (SKM) were extended to there after the measures were completed. In 1969 electrification reached the Tricity area with 3000 volts, the long-distance tracks from Gdynia to Gdańsk and the section to Wejherowo were converted accordingly. The remaining suburban traffic with 800 volts between Gdynia and Gdańsk was not changed until 1976. From 1986 to 1989, starting from Stargard, the rest of the route to Wejherowo was electrified.

business

The route is currently served both in local and long-distance traffic. Long-distance trains of the PKP Intercity type operate on the Szczecin – Olsztyn route using the entire length of the route and between Warszawa and Słupsk using the eastern section from Gdańsk. Regional trains also run along the entire route, but are usually broken in Słupsk. Sometimes the SKM trains run via Wejherowo to Slupsk.

literature

Dieter Grusenick , Erich Morlok , Horst Regling : The Berlin-Stettiner Railway . transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71046-X .
Album of the Cöslin-Danziger Eisenbahn , Stettin 1877 (digitized version of the University and State Library Darmstadt)

Web links

Linia Gdańsk – Stargard (Polish)