Jaworzno Szczakowa – Mysłowice railway line
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 Course of the Jaworzno Szczakowa – Mysłowice railway line
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| Route number : | 134 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 140 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 12.418 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 3 kV = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | continuous | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The almost 13 kilometer long Jaworzno Szczakowa – Mysłowice railway of the Polish state railway Polskie Koleje Państwowe (PKP) is located in the east of the Polish Śląskie Voivodeship . The line is the straight continuation of the eastern part of the Kraków – Jaworzno Szczakowa – Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice railway and, with this and a short branch to the then Austrian-Russian border, formed the network of the Kraków-Upper Silesian Railway .
history
The Kraków-Upper Silesian Railway was created on the initiative of the Senate of the City of Kraków ( Kraków ), which was granted the privilege to build and operate it. On October 13, 1847, the entire line from Krakow to Myslowitz ( Mysłowice ) went into operation. From 1848 it was a connection between the Warsaw-Vienna Railway and the Prussian Upper Silesian Railway . As a result, it connected both Krakow, the most important city in what was then the Austrian part of Poland, and Warsaw, the most important city in what was then the Russian part of Poland, with the Central European railway network. It was not until 1856 that a connection from Vienna to Krakow was established that only ran across Austria. In 1850 it was taken over by the Imperial and Royal Eastern State Railways . In 1858 the company was taken over by the Kaiser-Ferdinands-Nordbahn .
Today the route is operated by the Polish state railway PKP, which runs the connection under route number 134. The route is part of the E 30 corridor, which is to be expanded as a continuous rail link in southern Poland between the German border at Görlitz and the Ukrainian border at Medyka .
literature
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. B5, C5, D5, E5 and F5
Web links
- linia Jaworzno-Szczakowa - Mysłowice (Polish)