Lviv – Przemyśl railway line
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 Central station in Przemyśl
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| Route number : | 91, 92 (Polish part) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 98 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1520/1435 mm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 3000 V = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 70 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Lviv – Przemyśl railway is a main line in Ukraine . It runs from Lviv , the center of western Ukraine, to Przemyśl , a city in Poland. The line, with a gauge of 1520 mm (Russian broad gauge; to Żurawica north of Przemyśl in Poland) or 1435 mm (European standard gauge; to Mostyska I), is electrified on two tracks and is operated by the Ukrainian Railways , in particular the Lwiwska Salisnyzja guided.
The railway line was opened to traffic by the Galician Carl Ludwig Railway on November 4, 1861 as the first railway to Lviv; construction work began as early as 1859. The 97.6 km long line ended in the Lviv railway station , which was under construction from October 1859 from here the routes should continue to other parts of Galicia .
In 1892 the railway company was nationalized, since then the line has been in state ownership, after 1918 it became the property of the Polish State Railways , which in 1939 operated the Warsaw - Radom - Skarżysko Kam line. - Rozwadów - Przemyśl - Lwów with course book number 401
Due to the occupation of eastern Poland by the Soviet Union shortly at the beginning of the Second World War in 1939, the line came into the possession of the Soviet railways , which immediately began changing individual lines to Russian broad gauge (1520 mm), but this was done after Germany invaded the Soviet Union In 1941 it was reversed and the lines of the Eastern Railway were subordinated. The Lemberg – Przemysl – Reichshof – Tarnow – Cracow line was given the number 532. After the end of the war, the line was again taken over by the Soviet Railways, which put the entire line back on broad gauge and integrated it into their network. this was taken over in 1991 by the Ukrainian railways.
The branch line from Kamjanobrid to Jaworiw was built in the 1960s after the direct connection from Lviv to Jaworiw was abandoned, but currently only the line to Schklo is served.
On the Polish side, route numbers 91 and 92 now lead to Medyka, and international traffic runs from Krakow to Lemberg. The re-gauging system in Medyka is used to switch from standard gauge to Russian broad gauge. A broad gauge track leads to the Przemyśl Central Station ( Przemyśl Główny ).
Web links
- Lviv-Mostyska timetable from 2014
- Lviv-Shklov timetable from 2014
- Photos of the railway line to Yavoriv (Russian)
- Photos of the railway line to Przemyśl (Russian)
- Route information for the Polish part
literature
- History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy . Editing by Hermann Strach, Vienna, Budapest 1908 ff., Multi-volume standard work at the time
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rozkład Polska, lato 1939 - Table 401: Warszawa - Radom - Skarżysko Kam.. - Rozwadów - Przemyśl - Lwów
- ^ German course book - annual timetable 1944/45 - course book number 532: Krakau - Tarnow - Reichshof - Przemysl - Lemberg
- ^ German course book - annual timetable 1944/45 - course book number 532: Lemberg - Przemysl - Reichshof - Tarnow - Krakow
