Kielce – Fosowskie railway line

Kielce – Fosowskie (Vossowska)
Route number :	61
Course book range :	Kielce - Czestochowa 109; Częstochowa - Fosowskie 175
Route length:	175.736 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	continuously 3 kV  =
Top speed:	140 km / h
Dual track :	Kielce - Lubliniec
Legend from Kraków (Krakow) 0.529 Kielce 266 m Kielce Piaski (since 1971) 269 ​​m to Skarżysko-Kamienna 2.254 Kielce Herbskie 280 m 3.723 Kielce Czarnów (since 1972) 280 m connection 8.336 Górki Szczukowskie 247 m Expressway 7 Bobrza Link to Krakow 10.712 Sczcukowice junction 255 m Mine connection Mine connection connection 14.017 Piekoszów 270 m Rykoszyn freight yard Connection to Nordkalk 19.017 Rykoszyn 247 m Wierna Rzeka 23.735 Wierna Rzeka (since 1950) 231 m Connection gravel pit Connection to the cement plant 27.306 Małogoszcz 233 m Connection mine 32,538 Bukowa (since 1935) 267 m 36.699 Ludynia 280 m Connection silicate 40.567 Ludynia Dwór (since 1973) 264 m 47.735 Włoszczowa 250 m Connection Stolbud 53.035 Czarnca (since 1946) 250 m 53.261 Junction Czarnca 250 m Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie 59.716 Żelisławice 238 m Border Voivodeships Świętokrzyskie and Silesia Sidings from Kozłów 71.478 Koniecpol 239 m Pilica 74.854 Koniecpol Magdasz (since 1989) 234 m 78.508 Podlesie (since 1926) 238 m 83.935 Staropole Częstochowskie (since 1973) 247 m 87.880 Julianka 245 m 93,962 Lusławice (since 1946) 269 ​​m Connection of lime works 99.679 Turów 299 m 104.217 Kusięta Nowe (since 1957) 293 m left route until around 1955, right since then 107.443 Kusięta (until 1999) 266 m Prędziszów Hut connection; after Poraj Warta (Warta) 110.251 Branch Kucelinka by Zawiercie Hut connection Częstochowa Raków (since 1967) 248 m Czestochowa Fabryczny Częstochowa Towarowa 248 m last siding Connection to the district heating plant Częstochowa Warta (1942–1995) Częstochowa II connection to Piotrków Trybunalski via Bf. Częstochowa Częstochowa I until 1942 117.223 Częstochowa Stradom 253 m left line until 1942 122.963 Częstochowa Gnaszyn (1943: Gnaschyn ) 264 m 127.777 Blachownia (1943: Blachstädt ) 272 m 133.666 Herby Ruskie / Polskie (1911–1939; Russian / Polish Herby) 280 m until 1918 Russian-German border 134.666 Herby Stare (1943: Alt Herby ) 280 m Kalety-Herby Nowe 138.615 Liswarta junction Liswarta 141.799 Lisów (Lissau) 264 m Connection Prefabet Connection to Dobrogasz 145.837 Kochanowice (Kochanowitz; with connection) 281 m 149.840 Jawornica junction 264 m by Kalety (Kalet / Stahlhammer) from Pyskowice (Peiskretscham) 152.231 Lubliniec (Lublinitz / u. German owner praise ) 260 m to Kluczbork (Kreuzburg) State roads 11 and 46 156.680 Lisowice (Lipie (Kr.Lublinitz)) 259 m State road 46 161.223 Pawonków (Pawonkau) 243 m 1922–1939 Poland / German Reich border Border of the Silesian and Opole Voivodeships 168.443 Pludry (Pluder / Wildfurt) by Zawadzkie (Zawadzki) by Strzelce Opolskie (Groß Strehlitz) 175.736 Fosowskie (Vossowska / Vosswalde) to Dobrodzień (Good Day) to Kluczbork (Kreuzburg) to Opole (Opole)

The Kielce – Fosowskie (Vossowska) railway is a continuously electrified and mostly double-track railway line in the Polish Voivodeships of Świętokrzyskie , Silesia and Opole .

course

Herby Stare Station (2008)

The Kielce – Fosowskie railway begins at Kielce station , where it branches off from the Warszawa – Kraków railway, and runs westwards from there. From Kielce Herbskie (km 2.254) or Szczukowice (km 10.712) there is a connection from the opposite direction towards Skarżysko-Kamienna - Warsaw or Jędrzejów - Krakow . The next long-distance traffic stop after Kielce is Bukowa (km 32.411), then Włoszczowa (km 47.735). A little further west, the Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie railway (Central Railway Main Line) crosses , the next long-distance train station is Żelisławice (km 59.716), where trains from Kielce have to turn towards Warsaw to get onto the Central Railway Main Line. At the nearest station, Koniecpol (km 71.478), long-distance trains from the Kozłów – Koniecpol railway line join the route. However, there are no long-distance trains between Żelisławice and Koniecpol. The route runs from Koniecpol westward into the urban area of Częstochowa and first runs as a freight bypass in the south of the city, and then runs north to the long-distance train station Częstochowa Stradom (km 117.223). The Częstochowa station as the city's main train station is not affected by the route. The Warszawa – Katowice railway line crosses in Czestochowa , and the Chorzów – Tczew railway line , the coal mainline , at Herby Stare (km 134.666) . The next long-distance train station is Lubliniec (Lublinitz / Loben; km 152.231), from there the route continues westwards to its end point Fosowskie (Vossowska / Vosswalde; km 175.736).

State of development

The Kielce – Fosowskie railway line is electrified with three thousand volts of direct current and has two tracks between Kielce and Lubliniec.

Up to the kilometer point 2,800, the maximum speed for passenger trains is seventy kilometers per hour, up to the kilometer point 10,200 hundred, and then up to the end of the route almost consistently over a hundred. For freight trains it is usually eighty kilometers per hour.

history

The first section, Herby - Lublinitz , was opened on January 1, 1892 by the Prussian State Railways . The continuation to Vossowska followed on October 10, 1894. On the Russian side, a narrow-gauge line was first opened in 1903 between Herby and Czestochowa from the Gerbsko-Chelesnyja doroga (Russian). It was converted to European standard gauge by 1911 and was opened on February 26, 1911 , along with the continuation to Kielce . The company was now called Gerbsko-kielezkaja schelesnyja doroga .

After the First World War , the route east of Pluder came to Poland, after the Second World War the rest of the route.

Around 1955 the route at Częstochowa was re-routed.

The first section was electrified until November 28, 1965, the Częstochowa – Herby section, followed by Herby – Lubliniec (October 15, 1973), Koniecpol – Częstochowa (December 29, 1973), Kielce – Koniecpol (December 4, 1974) and finally Lubliniec – Fosowskie (December 18, 1976).

On November 3, 1976, the Julianka train accident occurred with 25 dead and 79 injured.

The route has been extensively renovated since 2010. Between Lubliniec and Fosowskie, where it does not stop, there is currently only long-distance traffic with the exception of a pair of trains on Fridays and Sundays. No long-distance traffic is operated only between Żelisławice and Koniecpol and on the section in Częstochowa, on which the line forms the freight bypass.

literature

• Ryszard Stankiewicz, Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. F6–9.

Web links

Commons : Kielce – Fosowskie railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Remarks

1. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for locomotive hauled passenger trains , multiple units and freight trains from January 9, 2018
2. ↑ Course book 10 December 2017 - 10 March 2018