Gliwice – Pyskowice railway line
Gliwice Łabędy – Pyskowice Laband – Peiskretscham |
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Route number : | 135 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course book range : | 220 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 5.309 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 3 kV = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 100 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dual track : | continuously | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Gliwice – Pyskowice (Gliwice – Peiskretscham) railway is a double-track, electrified railway line in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship .
Course and condition
The line begins in the wedge station Gliwice Łabędy (Laband) and runs northwest to the Pyskowice station (Peiskretscham; km 5,390) on the Bytom – Wrocław railway line .
It is double-track and electrified throughout and can be used by passenger and freight trains at a speed of 100 kilometers per hour.
history
The line was opened on March 1, 1880 by the state-run Upper Silesian Railway . It was expanded to two tracks around 1913, and on October 3, 1960, the electrification of the Polish State Railways was completed.
Literature and web links
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. R20.
- Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
- Commons : Gliwice – Pyskowice railway line - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual proof
- ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from December 6, 2017