Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie railway line

Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie
Grodzisk Mazowiecki railway station
Route number :	4th
Course book range :	100
Route length:	222.993 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	continuously 3 kV  =
Top speed:	200 km / h
Dual track :	continuous
Legend from Warszawa (Warsaw) 1,092 Grodzisk Mazowiecki 105  m Jaktorów to Katowice (Katowice) 14,574 Korytów 141  m Pisia Landesstrasse 50 Okresza Skierniewice – Łuków railway line 23,542 Szeligi 175  m Masovian and Łódź Voivodeships State road 70 Expressway 8 Białka Narrow gauge railway Rogów – Biała Rawska Łódź and Masovian Voivodeships 57.381 Strzałki 165  m Masovian and Łódź Voivodeships Luboczanka Pilica State road 48 Tomaszów Mazowiecki – Radom railway line 80.608 Idzikowice 196  m Railway line Łódź – Dębica Landesstrasse 12 92.142 Opoczno Południe 184  m State road 74 Czarna Konecka Łódź Voivodeships and Holy Cross Landesstrasse 42 124.808 Olszamowice 235  m Czarna Włoszczowska 154,390 Włoszczowa Północ 245  m Kielce – Fosowskie railway line 160.588 Knapówka branch 248  m 170.479 Psary 260  m Koniecpol – Kozłów railway line Voivodeships Świętokrzyskie and Silesia Pilica State road 46 206.688 Góra Włodowska 355  m from Warsaw via Czestochowa Myszków Mrzygłód Zawiercie Borowe Pole Warta (Warta) 224,050 Zawiercie 333  m to Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz) to Katowice (Katowice)

The railway line Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie , also called Central Railway Magistrale (Polish Centralna Magistrala Kolejowa ), is a continuous double-track and electrified railway line in the Polish Voivodeships of Masovia , Łódź , Heiligkreuz and Silesia . It serves as a high-speed route between Warsaw and southern Poland.

course

The line begins in Grodzisk Mazowiecki on the Warszawa – Katowice railway line and runs southwards via the Szeligi railway stations (km 23.542), from which there is a connecting curve to the Skierniewice – Łuków railway , and Idzikowice (km 80.608), from which there is a connecting curve to the Tomaszów Mazowiecki– Radom , to Opoczno Południe station (km 92.142). The line continues via Włoszczczowa Północ (km 154.390), where there are connecting tracks to the Kielce – Fosowskie railway , and the Psary depot , from which there is a connecting curve to the Koniecpol – Kozłów railway , to Zawiercie , where the line returns to the Warszawa – Katowice railway meets.

State of development

The line is double-tracked and electrified.

For passenger trains, the maximum speed up to the kilometer point 78.516 is 200 km / h, up to the kilometer point 156.496 at Włoszczowa 160 km / h, except in the Idzikowice depot (120 km / h), up to the kilometer point 214.800 200 km / h, then 110-160 km / h. The maximum speed for freight trains is almost always 120 km / h.

History and traffic

The first section, Idzikowice - Zawiercie , was opened by the Polish State Railways on September 26, 1974 . By September 12, 1975, the Włoszczowa –Zawiercie section was electrified. The electrical operation Idzikowice – Włoszczowa was possible from February 25, 1976, the continuation north to Szeligi from June 18, 1977, the continuation to Grodzisk Mazowiecki from December 28th of that year. In the past few years, the line has been renovated and ETCS has also been installed.

Several speed records were set on the route. Since December 2014, multiple units of the PKP series ED250 have been traveling the route at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour. This is the first time that such a high speed is regularly achieved in the EU enlargement areas of 2004.

Only long-distance trains operate in passenger traffic. These come from the direction of Warsaw and either continue via Zawiercie in the direction of Katowice or turn after Włoszczowa onto the Kozłów – Koniecpol railway line in the direction of Kraków . Far from all trains stop in Opoczno Południowe and Włoszczowa Północ.

In December 2009 the contract to equip the line with ETCS Level 1 was awarded. The line was the first line to be equipped with ETCS in Poland and should be driven at speeds of up to 200 km / h after the ETCS commissioning scheduled for June 2011. Commissioning has taken place.

The construction of a connecting curve from Włoszczowa Północ to Kielce is planned by 2020 in order to connect Kielce to Warsaw more quickly than via the Warsaw – Krakow railway line .

Literature and web links

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. E8–9, F8, G7–8
• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)
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Individual evidence

1. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for locomotive hauled passenger trains , multiple units and freight trains from December 6, 2017
2. ↑ rynek-kolejowy.pl (Polish)
3. ↑ Course book 2017/18
4. ^ First ETCS route for Poland. (No longer available online.) Eurailpress, December 15, 2009, archived from the original on December 20, 2015 ; Retrieved December 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Intelligence Market . In: Railway Gazette International . tape 172 , no. 1 , 2016, ISSN  0373-5346 , p. 16 f . (among other titles online ).
6. ↑ Powstanie nowa linia kolejowa. Z Kielc do Warszawy pojedziemy w 2 godziny i 10 minutes. Rynek Kolejowy, December 29, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017