Kutno – Brodnica railway line

Kutno – Brodnica
Route number :	33
Course book range :	418
Route length:	142.484 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	100 km / h
Legend from Łódź from Warsaw 0.000 Kutno (1943: Kutno) 108 m Kutno Towarowy Kutno Azory Lokomotywownia 3.320 Azory 111 m to Posen and Thorn 6.150 Florek 112 m 8,882 Raciborów Kutnowski (since 1949) 119 m Connection of gravel mining 14.017 Strzelce Kujawskie (1943: Strelze) 117 m Łódź and Masovian Voivodeships 20.652 Sierakówek (since 1949) 113 m 28,481 Gostynin (1943: Waldrode) 92 m 34.244 Rogóżew (since 1965; former train station) 93 m 38.876 Łąck (1943: Lonsch) 92 m 45.720 0.000 Płock Radziwie (1943: Schröttersburg Süd) 62 m Route 56 0.819 Plock Radziwie Port 59 m State road 62 Vistula State road 60 52.258 Płock (1943: Schröttersburg North) 106 m connections State road 60 57.635 Płock Trzepowo (since 1961) 114 m PKN Orlen 65.558 Proboszczewice Płockie (1943: Proboszczewice; formerly Bf) 120 m 73.432 Gozdowo (1943: Gozdowo; former train station) 141 m 79.640 Susk (since 1964) 122 m from Nasielsk 87.116 Sierpc (1943: Sichelberg) after Thorn Skawa (look) Landesstrasse 10 99.280 Szczutowo (1943: Schüttau) 125 m Masovian and Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeships 108,800 Puszcza Rządowa (1957-2000) 126 m 116.754 Rypin (1943: Rippin (Westpr)) 127 m 129.010 Kretki (1943: Lindenschanz) 124 m Drwęca (Drewenz) from Działdowo (Soldau) connection connection 142.484 Brodnica (1943: Strasburg (Westpr)) 72 m to Kowalewo Pomorskie (Schönsee) to Jablonowo Pomorskie (Goßlershausen)

The Kutno – Brodnica railway is a single-track railway line in the Polish voivodeships of Łódź , Mazovia and Kuyavian-Pomerania, which is electrified only as far as Sierpc and Płock Trzepowo , and except for the short section Łąck –Płock Radziwie .

Course and condition

Class 627 railcars in Sierpc (2008)

The line begins at the Kutno junction on the Warsaw – Poznan railway , which is also the end point of the Łódź – Kutno railway and the start of the Kutno – Piła railway , and after a short section parallel to the Poznan and Piła section runs north-east via the district town of Gostynin ( Waldrode ; km 28.481), the Płock Radziwie station ( Schröttersburg Süd ; km 45.270), where a short branch line (route number 56) to the port began, the station in the city of Płock ( Schröttersburg Nord ; km 52.258), the Płock Trzepowo station (km 57.635 ) with its large connection to PKN Orlen , the train station in the district town of Sierpc ( Sichelberg ; km 87.116), where the Nasielsk – Toruń railway line crosses , and the former train station in the town of Rypin ( Rippin (West Prussia) ; km 116.754) after the Brodnica train station ( Strasburg (West Prussia) ; km 142.484) on the Działdowo – Chojnice railway , which was also the start of the Brodnica – Bydgoszcz railway .

The line is single-track with the exception of the Łąck – Płock Radziwie section and is electrified with 3000 volts DC to the Płock Trzepowo station. Up to the kilometer point 3.150, the maximum speed for passenger trains is sixty, for freight trains forty kilometers per hour, up to the kilometer point 4.040 eighty or forty, up to the kilometer point 5.370 hundred or forty, up to the kilometer point 28.080 one hundred or sixty, up to the kilometer point 46.100 sixty or forty, up to the kilometer point 48.300 generally forty, up to the kilometer point 56.513 eighty or sixty, up to the kilometer point 58.691 sixty or forty, up to the kilometer point 86.700 seventy or fifty, up to the kilometer point 88.670 generally fifty, up to the kilometer point 100.900 generally twenty, then eighty or seventy to the end of the line. The opposite track between the kilometer points 38.608 and 45.960 can be used at one hundred and sixty kilometers per hour.

history

The bridge over the Vistula

As the first section, the section from Kutno to Radziwie (since 1923 Płock Radziwie) was opened by the Polish State Railways on January 15, 1922 , followed by the section from Płock to Sierpc on November 19, 1934 and its continuation to Brodnica on August 7, 1937 ; the gap between Płock Radziwie and Płock with the bridge over the Vistula was not closed until December 19, 1939. Between Sierpc and Rypin, a narrow-gauge railway that had been running since 1929 was replaced with a different route.

During the German occupation in World War II , the line belonged to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , after the end of the war the Polish State Railways were re-established. The Łąck – Płock Radziwie section has been double-tracked since 1984, the Kutno – Płock section has been fully electrified since November 30, 1984, and since November 27, 1984, the next station, Płock Trzepowo . In 1996 passenger traffic between Płock and Sierpc was stopped, but resumed on December 9, 2007. Passenger traffic between Sierpc and Brodnica was stopped in 2000.

Literature and web links

Commons : Kutno – Brodnica railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. C7 – C8, D7 – D8
• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description, pictures and historical timetables on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from April 8, 2019.