Miłkowice – Jasień railway line

Miłkowice – Jasień
Route number :	282 (D29)
Route length:	123.370 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Miłkowice – Węgliniec: 3 kV  =
Top speed:	160 km / h
Legend from Wrocław 0 Miłkowice (Arnsdorf b Liegnitz) to Żagań from Złotoryja 8,991 Chojnów (Haynau) according to Rokitki 15.503 Osetnica (Steinsdorf) 20,544 Okmiany (Kaiserswaldau) 27.730 Tomaszów Bolesławiecki (Thomaswaldau) by Bolesławiec C. 36.048 Bolesławiec (Bolesławiec) Bober Viaduct (489 m) by Lwówek Śląski 49.073 Zebrzydowa (Siegersdorf) to Żagań 55.780 Zagajnik (Haidewaldau) Węgliniec flat share from Lubań 61.501 Węgliniec (Kohlfurt) to Görlitz and to Horka 64,489 Stary Węgliniec (Alt Kohlfurt) 70.170 Jagodzin Tartak 70.171 Ruszów Nadleśnictwo 70.200 Jagodzin (Neuhammer) 75.313 Ruszów (Rauscha) to Gozdnica 79,362 Okrąglica (rapid mortar ) 86,598 Iłowa Żagańska ( semi-building ) 91.448 Konin Żagański (Kunau) 93,952 Jankowa Żagańska (Hansdorf) to Żagań to Rothenburg / Oberlausitz 97.670 Żary Kunice (Kunzendorf b Sorau) from Żagań 102.407 Żary (Sorau) to Zielona Góra Sieniawa Żarska (Schönwalde) to Forst (Lausitz) 116.170 Lipsk Żarski (Liebsgen) from Żagań 123.370 Jasień (alleys) according to Guben

The Miłkowice – Jasień railway is a main line between the Lower Silesian city ​​of Miłkowice (Arnsdorf b. Liegnitz) and the western Polish city of Jasień (alleys) in the Lubusz Voivodeship . It is electrified in the section between Węgliniec (Kohlfurt) and Miłkowice with the 3 kV direct current common in Poland  .

history

The purple section (Miłkowice – Jasień route) is part of the Lower Silesian-Märkische Railway

The line is part of the railway connection planned and implemented by the Lower Silesian-Märkische Eisenbahn (NME) between the Prussian capital Berlin and the Silesian provincial capital Wroclaw . On October 1, 1845, the section between Liegnitz and Bunzlau was opened. The further section of the route was opened to public transport on September 1, 1846 as far as Frankfurt (Oder) . About 30 years later, on May 15, 1875, the shortcut between Gassen and Liegnitz via Sagan, only 93 kilometers long, was put into operation. The route was around 30 kilometers shorter than the original route via Kohlfurt described here. This was a major loss of importance for the railway line, especially in the Gassen – Kohlfurt section. The other section between Kohlfurt and Liegnitz was connected to the Central German railway network via the NME branch line Kohlfurt – Görlitz since September 1, 1847 and the Kohlfurt – Ruhland line since June 1, 1874.

On February 3, 1942, a serious railway accident occurred between Węgliniec / Kohlfurt and Miłkowice / Arnsdorf when an overheated cannon furnace exploded in the crew car of a military train. 20 people died and 15 were also injured.

After the Second World War , the areas east of the Lusatian Neisse and Oder and thus the railway line fell under Polish administration. The second track in the section Węgliniec– Żary (Sorau) and on to Lubsko (Sommerfeld) was dismantled.

The line has been electrified between Węgliniec and Legnica since December 1985.

From December 8, 2010 to December 13, 2014, a pair of Eurocity trains has been running once a day between Krakow , Wroclaw, Berlin and on to Hamburg via the original connection and not, as before, via the shorter, but less developed section via Żagań (Sagan) . The Eurocitys served the stations Węgliniec and Bolesławiec. They needed about two hours for the Żary – Legnica section.

today

Another five regional train pairs of the Przewozy Regionalne connect Węgliniec and Żary on the direct route. The Legnica – Węgliniec section is more busy, with 16 pairs of trains connecting the two cities, including the aforementioned pair of Eurocity trains and three pairs of trains on the German-Polish Dresden-Wrocław Express . In addition, there is a high utilization rate due to the cross-border German-Polish freight traffic from Węgliniec in the direction of Falkenberg / Elster.

The route is part of the pan-European freight and passenger corridor E 30 and CE 30. In April 2003, within the framework of the "Agreement [s] between the Federal Ministry of Transport, Building and Housing of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Minister for Infrastructure of the Republic of Poland on the cooperation in the further development of the railway connections Berlin - Warsaw (Warszawa) (CE 20) and Dresden - Breslau (Wrocław) (E 30 / CE 30) ”decided to upgrade the Legnica – Węgliniec section to a maximum speed of 160 km / h. The agreement was largely implemented by Poland by the end of 2010.

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  Żary train station

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  Iłowa Żagańska stop

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  Węgliniec railway station

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  Zebrzydowa Railway Station

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  Bober Viaduct near Bolesławiec

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  Bolesławiec railway station

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  Tomaszów Bolesławiecki stop

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  Okmiany stop

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  Osetnica stop

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  Miłkowice railway station

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Miłkowice – Jasień railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description on kolej.one.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} eisenbahn.wikia.com: List of line openings in Poland. Retrieved February 13, 2011 . 
2. ^ Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia / (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 11, 113 .
3. ^ Hans Joachim Ritzau: Railway disasters in Germany. Splinters of German history . Vol. 1: Landsberg-Pürgen 1979, p. 130.
4. ^ ^{A b} Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the triangle. East Saxony (D) / Lower Silesia / (PL) / North Bohemia (CZ). Part 1: History of the main lines, operating points, electrification and route descriptions . EK-Verlag, Freiburg (Breisgau) 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 32 .
5. ^ Lusatian Railway (Polish). Retrieved April 22, 2017 . 
6. ↑ wedebruch.de: German-Polish agreement. Retrieved March 25, 2011 .