Guben – Zbąszynek railway line

Guben – Czerwieńsk – Zbąszynek
Railway station in Czerwieńsk (Rothenburg)
Route number (DB) :	6206 Guben border
Route number :	0358 Border – Zbąszynek
Course book section (DB) :	333
Route length:	95.9 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Czerwieńsk – Zbąszynek: 3 kV  =
Top speed:	100 km / h
Legend from Żagań from Cottbus and from Forst 0.0 Guben island train station to Frankfurt (Oder) 1.6 94.3 ( Neisse / Nysa ; border between Germany and Poland ) 93.1 Gubin 88.0 Wałowice (Wallwitz (Kr Guben)) 83.7 Guben city forest 76.6 Wężyska (Merzdorf) from Lubsko Bober / Bóbr 66.4 Krosno Odrzańskie (Crossen [Oder]) 56.7 Ciemnice Thiemendorf 49.7 Nietków (Polish Nettkow, later Schlesisch Nettkow) from Kostrzyn 43.8 Czerwieńsk (Rothenburg [Oder]) wedge station to Zielona Góra Or / Odra 34.9 Pomorsko (Pommerzig) from Świebodzin and from Konotop 26.4 Sulechów (Züllichau) to Wolsztyn 20.5 Łęgowo Sulechowskie (Lang Heinersdorf) former train station 15.1 Kolesin (Goltzen) 12.1 9.2 Babimost (Bomst) 3.6 Kręcko (wreath) from Frankfurt (Oder) 0.0 Zbąszynek (New Bentschen) to Gorzów Wielkopolski from Frankfurt (Oder) and Gorzów Wielkopolski 0.0 Zbąszyń (Bentschen) by Międzychód to Poznań and Wolsztyn

The Guben – Zbąszynek railway is a railway line that runs mainly in the Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland . The eastern section between Zbąszynek and Czerwieńsk is electrified, the non-electrified western section between Guben and Czerwieńsk is only used for freight traffic.

history

House platform of Guben train station

The line was opened on June 26, 1870 by the Märkisch-Posener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and established a direct rail connection from Cottbus to Posen with the subsequent lines . At the end of the 19th century the line was expanded to two tracks. At that time, express trains ran from Frankfurt (Main) to the Russian border near Eydtkuhnen in East Prussia .

Originally, the connecting station to the line from Frankfurt (Oder) to Posen was in Bentschen (today Zbąszyń ). After the place was awarded to Poland after 1919 as a result of the Versailles Treaty , the routes from Frankfurt, Guben and Landsberg (Warthe) were relocated. On the German side, the Neu Bentschen junction station (now Zbąszynek ) was built, and a new location was created around it for railway and customs employees. There was no longer any continuous train traffic from this route to the Polish area, you had to change trains from Berlin in Neu Bentschen. After the occupation of Poland by Germany in the Second World War , the importance of the line grew, in 1944/45 it served a pair of express trains Leipzig - Königsberg and a pair Halle (Saale) - Allenstein in long-distance traffic .

Reception building in Zbąszynek (Neu Bentschen)

In 1945 the Oder-Neisse border became Poland's new western border. Since then, the entire line, except for a short section, has been in Guben on Polish territory and is operated by the Polish State Railways (PKP). The second track, which existed from 1900 to 1921 and then again from 1930, was dismantled. To develop Gubin , the Polish part of Guben, a new train station was built north of the city. This is where passenger trains from Czerwieńsk (formerly Rothenburg an der Oder ) ended for a long time , and the route was operated across borders for goods traffic. With the introduction of visa-free travel between the GDR and Poland, passenger traffic across the border commenced in 1972, although it was stopped again in 1981 with the strengthening of Solidarność .

Only since 1996 there was passenger traffic across the border to Guben again. At the end of the 1990s, four pairs of passenger trains ran between Czerwieńsk and Gubin, three of them on to Guben. On October 6, 2002, passenger traffic west of Czerwieńsk was completely stopped. However, freight trains still run regularly on the route. In May 2008 it became known that the Lebus Voivodeship and the State of Brandenburg had agreed to restart passenger transport, two pairs of trains should run between Cottbus and Zielona Góra (formerly Grünberg in Silesia ).

On the eastern section between Czerwieńsk and Zbąszynek there is an express train and an interregional train from Zielona Góra to Warszawa Wschodnia, an express train to Gdynia and several local trains.

In the 2011/2012 timetable, four pairs of TLK trains per direction and four pairs of regional trains per direction operate on the section between Zbąszynek and Czerwieńsk.

Since June 9, 2013, express trains from the direction of Zbąszynek to Zielona Góra have been using a newly built connecting curve to bypass the Czerwieńsk station, where they no longer have to turn.

literature

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. D3, E1–2
• Bernd Kuhlmann: Railways across the Oder-Neisse border . Ritzau, Pürgen 2004, ISBN 3-935101-06-6 .

Web links

• linia Zbąszynek – Guben (Polish)

Individual evidence

http://www.przewozyregionalne.pl/img_in//SRJP/Zmienione%20tabele%20SRJP%202011%20-%202012/tabela%20333%20z%20dnia%2004.01.12.zamkn.xls.pdf

1. ↑ https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/image/14688302_1898/47/ from the Prussian state budget 1898/99
2. ^ Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski, Wydawnictwo Eurosprinter, 2010, ISBN 978-83-926946-8-7 , map sheet E2
3. ↑ http://www.rbb-online.de/_/nachrichten/wirtschaft/beitrag_jsp/key=news7519376.html  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.