Kutno – Piła railway line
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Station Solec Kujawski (Schulitz)
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Route number : | 18th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course book range : | 420 Kutno– Bydgoszcz Główna , 425 Bydgoszcz Główna – Piła Główna |
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Route length: | 246.867 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 3 kV = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 140 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dual track : | continuously | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kutno – Piła railway is a double-track and electrified railway line in the Polish voivodeships of Łódź , Kuyavian-Pomerania and Greater Poland . It connects Kutno via Włocławek (Leslau) , Toruń (Thorn) and Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) with Piła (Schneidemühl) and serves long-distance traffic to and from Warsaw .
course
The double-track and electrified line branches off from the Warsaw – Poznań railway line in Kutno . There are further connections there via Łęczyca, Ozorków and Zgierz to Łódź and via Płock and Sierpc and Brodnica , with the last section no longer being operated by passenger traffic. From Kutno, the Kutno – Piła railway runs northwest across the Ostrowy station (km 13.658), which was called Kranzwerder during the German occupation of Poland from 1939–1945 and which was once connected to the Ostrowy – Ozorków narrow-gauge railway to the first long-distance stop in Włocławek ( Leslau ; km 54.808), where there was once a connection to the narrow-gauge railway Włocławek – Przystronie . From there it continues north-west via the Nieszawa Waganiec station ( Nessau ; km 77.189), which is located southwest of the city of Nieszawa and on which there was once a connection to the Nieszawa – Dobre Alexandrowskie narrow-gauge railway , to the nearest long-distance train station, Aleksandrów Kujawski ( Vistula City; km 91.702), where the railway line Aleksandrów Kujawski – Ciechocinek, which is no longer operated for passenger traffic, branches off. Shortly afterwards, the line crosses the former Russian-German border and reaches the nearest long-distance train station, Toruń Główny (Thorn Central Station, km 109.058), where there are railway lines via Inowrocław (Hohensalza) and Gniezno (Gnesen) to Poznan and via Jabłonowo Pomorskie (Goßlershausen) and Iława Connect (German Eylau) to Olsztyn (Allenstein) . From Toruń the line runs westward via the Solec Kujawski long-distance train station (km 138.699) into the urban area of Bydgoszcz, where the first long-distance train station is Bydgoszcz Wschód (Karlsdorf near Bromberg / Bromberg Ost ; km 152.300), where the Brodnica – Bydgoszcz line branches off and the Nowa Wieś Wielka – Gdynia railway line , part of the so-called coal highway, is crossed. It forms the bypass of the main station for freight trains. Long-distance trains also stop at the Bydgoszcz Leśna stop (km 156.343), as well as at the Bydgoszcz Główna station (Bydgoszcz State Station ; km 160.058), where the Chorzów – Tczew railway , part of the so-called coal highway, crosses . There was once a connection to Posen , which is interrupted and from the direction of Bydgoszcz is only used by freight traffic as far as Szubin (Schubin / Altburgund). The narrow-gauge railway Bydgoszcz – Koronowo of the former Bydgoszcz Kreisbahn no longer exists. The Kutno – Piła railway runs further west to the nearest long-distance train station Nakło nad Notecią (Nakel State Railway Station; km 186.887) on the Oleśnica – Chojnice railway, which is only operated here for goods traffic . Here there was once a connection to the narrow-gauge railway Nakło nad Notecią – Kasprowo of the former Bydgoszcz Kreisbahn. The route continues via the nearest long-distance train station Wyrzysk Osiek (Netzthal / Wirsitz-Netzthal ; km 208.183), a few kilometers south of the city of Wyrzysk, and Białośliwie (Weißenhöhe; km 219.898), where the narrow-gauge railway Białośliwie – Witosław is still part of the museum traffic operated, begins, to the railway junction and island station Piła Główna (Schneidemühl; km 247.181), which lies among other things on the Tczew – Küstrin-Kietz border , a piece of the former Prussian Eastern Railway .
The line is between Kutno and Bydgoszcz, with the exception between Włocławek Brzezie and Aleksandrów Kujawski, where passenger trains can travel 140 kilometers per hour, and in the area of larger stations for a maximum speed of 120 kilometers per hour for passenger traffic and for freight traffic of 100 kilometers per hour and between Bydgoszcz and Piła for a maximum speed of largely 100 kilometers per hour in passenger traffic and 70 kilometers per hour in freight traffic.
history
The Schneidemühl – Bromberg section was opened on July 27, 1851 as part of the Royal Prussian Eastern Railway , together with the Kreuz –Schneidemühl section of today's Tczew – Küstrin-Kietz railway . At that time there was no direct connection to the Prussian capital Berlin , a detour via Stettin had to be taken. The direct connection via Landsberg an der Warthe , Küstrin and Strausberg was only opened between 1857 and 1867. On October 24, 1861, the continuation of the Schneidemühl – Bromberg line to Thorn was opened, the continuation across the Russian border to Alexandrowo followed on December 5, 1862, the day before the Kutno – Alexandrowo line was the continuation of December 1, 1861 The route Lowitsch – Kutno was opened by the Warsaw-Bydgoszcz Railway . Since 1888/1889 the section Bromberg – Schneidemühl and since 1910 the section Thorn – Bromberg has been operated on two tracks. The May 1914 timetable provided for four pairs of express trains between Thorn and Schneidemühl. Express train stops were then: eight times (four times in each direction) Thorn Hbf, Schirpitz once (in the direction of Schneidemühl), Schulitz four times, Brahnau once (in the direction of Thorn), Bromberg eight times, Nakel six times, Netzthal twice, Weißenhöhe twice, Schneidemühl eight times. At that time, the Nord-Express ran between Thorn and Alexandrowo , as the route was the fastest connection between Berlin and Warsaw because the direct railway line Poznan – Warsaw did not yet exist.
After the First World War , the line became Polish, only about two thirds of the section between Erpel (Polish: Kaczory) and Schneidemühl remained on German soil. Russia no longer had any share. The 1939 summer course book provided for two pairs of passenger trains to cross the border. In the meantime, the Kutno – Toruń line had been expanded to two tracks in 1936/1937. Presumably in 1943, during the German occupation of Poland, a new route between Bromberg Ost (Bydgoszcz Wschód) and Bromberg Hbf (Bydgoszcz Główna) was opened, the old one closed in 1964.
After the Second World War , the route became completely Polish. Two serious railway accidents later occurred: on July 3, 1972, a train accident occurred between Zielonczyn and Ślesin with 12 dead and 26 injured, and on August 19, 1980 the Otłoczyn railway accident occurred with 67 deaths and 62 injuries. The Toruń – Bydgoszcz section has been electrically operated since July 20, 1984, the Aleksandrów Kujawski – Toruń since May 31, 1985, the Kutno – Aleksandrów Kujawski since December 21, 1985 and the Bydgoszcz – Piła since December 23, 1989.
Literature and web links
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. C4–7, D7
- Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
- Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8
- ↑ PKP Polskie Line Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , rail buses and freight trains from January 9, 2018
- ^ Course book May 1914
- ^ Course book summer 1936