Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Opole railway line

Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Opole Groszowice Kandrzin – Groschowitz
Route number :	136
Course book range :	220
Route length:	37.510 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 kV  =
Top speed:	80 km / h
Dual track :	Yes
Legend from Racibórz (Ratibor) to and from Gliwice (Gleiwitz) 0.000 Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Kandrzin / Heydebreck (Oberschles)) 180 m State road 40 Kłodnica (Klodnitz) to the twelfth line and formerly to Strzelce Opolskie (Groß Strehlitz) to Nysa (Neisse) to Nysa from the seventh line Kanał Gliwicki (Gliwice Canal) 2.268 Kłodnica junction 175 m to Strzelce Opolskie 5.747 Raszowa (Mittenbrück; since 1921) 180 m 6.444 Raszowa junction 180 m Connection to the coking plant 10.375 Zdzieszowice ( Leschnitz / Odertal (Oberschles.)) 186 m 15.749 Jasiona (since 1960) 181 m Autobahn 4 21,380 Gogolin (gogolin) 172 m to Prudnik (Neustadt (Oberschles.)) Connection limestone mine 25.634 Górażdże (Waldenstein; since 1935) 171 m Cementownia Górażdże 31.404 Przywory Opolskie (Przywor / Oderfest; since 1885) 162 m 34.829 Opole Grotowice (since 1975) 160 m by Strzelce Opolskie (Groß Strehlitz) connections 37.510 Opole Groszowice (Groschowitz) 167 m to Opole Wschodnie (Opole East) to Opole Główne (Opole central station)

The Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Opole railway is a double-track electrified railway line in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

Course and condition

Gogolin Railway Station (2015)

The route begins in the remote transport station Kedzierzyn-Kozle (Kandrzin) on the railway line Katowice-Legnica which the initial station of the railroad line Kedzierzyn-Kozle-Bohumín and the former railway Kedzierzyn-Kozle-Kluczbork , and runs north-west to the next remote traffic station Zdzieszowice ( Leschnitz ; km 10.375) with a connection to a coking plant , further via Gogolin (Gogolin; km 21.380), the end point of the former Neustadt-Gogoliner Railway , and Przywory Opolskie (Przywor; km 31.404) with a connection to a Heidelbergcement cement works , and ends at the train station Opole Groszowice (Groschowitz; km 37.510) on the Bytom – Wrocław railway , which is also the starting station of the Opole – Wrocław railway .

The line is double-tracked throughout and electrified with three kilovolt DC voltage . In passenger traffic, it may be used on one track between Kędzierzyn-Koźle and the kilometer point 6.500 at fifty, from there to the kilometer point 21.100 at eighty, from there to Opole Groszowice at sixty kilometers per hour; on the other track to kilometer point 12,200 at fifty, from there to Przywory Opolskie at seventy, from there to just before Opole Groszowice at eighty. In freight traffic, it can be used on one track up to the kilometer point 6.500 at fifty, up to the kilometer point 21.100 at eighty, then again at fifty kilometers per hour, on the other track up to kilometer 12.200 at fifty, then at sixty.

Due to the low maximum speed of the route, the travel time between Kędzierzyn-Koźle and Opole Główne is at least 46 minutes, longer than, for example, 1914 (at least 33 minutes) or 1936 (at least 21 minutes). All express and express trains from these timetable years took less time than today's Intercity and Twoje-Linie-Kolejowe trains.

history

The Oppeln – Cosel line (then the name of the later Kandrzin station) was opened on November 2, 1845 together with the continuation to Gleiwitz by the later nationalized Upper Silesian Railway and has been double-tracked since 1847. In 1945 the second track was dismantled, but rebuilt in 1946 (section Kędzierzyn-Koźle-Gogolin) and 1956 (section Gogolin-Opole Groszowice). Since the end of the Second World War and the subsequent annexation of most of Silesia to Poland, the line has belonged to the Polish State Railways , which it has operated electrically since December 22, 1961.

Major trains on the route were the days of the First World War the Balkanzug , later the Schnelltriebwagenzug Berlin - Bytom .

An expansion of the line to the maximum speed of one hundred and sixty kilometers per hour including renovation of the stations and stops is planned.

Literature and web links

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. G6
• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
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  Commons : Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Opole railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

1. ^ Station names 1917 and possibly 1943.
2. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from January 8, 2019.
3. ↑ Course book December 9, 2018 - March 9, 2019.
4. ↑ Empire Kursbuch July 1914 reprint, 5th Edition, 1995, Ritzau KG - Publisher time and railways, Pürgen, ISBN 3-921 304-09-1 .
5. ^ German course book summer 1936, Ritzau KG - Verlag Zeit und Eisenbahn - Pürgen, reprint, 1st edition, 1990.
6. ↑ Martyn Janduła: Z Opola do Kędzierzyna-Koźla 160 km / h , Rynek Kolejowy, December 29, 2016, accessed on the same day.