Kozłów – Koniecpol railway line

Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie
former stop Mstyczów
Route number :	64
Course book range :	100
Route length:	43.527 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	continuously 3 kV  =
Top speed:	160 km / h
Dual track :	Kozłów - or. Starzyny
Legend from Kraków (Krakow) 0.000 Kozłów 305 m to Warszawa (Warsaw) via Kielce Lesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeships 8,838 Mstyczów (until 2000) 280 m 13.654 Węgrzynów Stary (until 2000) 17.675 Mijanka Sprowa (since 2011) Voivodeships Świętokrzyskie and Silesia State road 78 23.112 Szczekociny 260 m 30.417 Starzyny (until 2000) 270 m 32,570 Starzyny junction 265 m Silesian and Świętokrzyskie Voivodeships Grodzisk Mazowiecki – Zawiercie railway line 34.813 Wola Kuczkowska (until 2000) 261 m Voivodeships Świętokrzyskie and Silesia from Kielce 43,527 Koniecpol 239 m to Częstochowa (Czestochowa)

The Kozłów – Koniecpol railway line is a continuously electrified and mostly double-track railway line in the Polish voivodeships of Lesser Poland , Świętokrzyskie and Silesia .

Course and state of development

The line begins at Kozłów station on the Warszawa – Kraków railway line and runs northwest via the Starzyny junction (km 32.570), where a connecting track branches off towards Włoszczowa – Opoczno – Warsaw , to Koniecpol station (km 43.257) on the Kielce – Koniecpol railway line . There are no longer any train stations between Kozłów and Koniecpol. Kozłów is also not served by the trains that run on the Kozłów – Koniecpol railway line.

The line is electrified throughout and has two tracks from Kozłów to the Starzyny junction. The maximum speed for passenger trains up to the Starzyny junction is one hundred and sixty kilometers per hour for freight trains, and from there to Koniecpol it is one hundred and twenty for passenger trains and eighty for freight trains.

history

The line was opened by the Polish State Railways on December 28, 1971 , and was later electrified by December 29, 1973. The line was later expanded to two tracks, but regional traffic was discontinued in 2000.

On March 3, 2012, the Szczekociny railway accident occurred .

Literature and web link

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. F8 and G8
• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual proof

1. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from January 9, 2018