Michaľany – Łupków railway line

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Michaľany – Łupków
Railway station in Medzilaborce
Railway station in Medzilaborce
Michaľany – Łupków railway line
Course book series (ZSSK) : 191
Route length: 123 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 3 kV  =
Top speed: 100 km / h
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Čierna nad Tisou
Station, station
 0.000 Michaľany
Gleisdreieck - straight ahead, to the left, from the left
 to Košice
Stop, stop
 1.495 Lastovce
Stop, stop
 13,046 Veľaty
Stop, stop
 11.276 Stanča
Station, station
 13,046 Úpor
   
 from Slivník
Plan-free intersection - below
 Uzhhorod – Haniska (ŠRT; 1520 mm)
Station, station
 20.265 Trebišov
   
 to Vranov nad Topľou
Stop, stop
 25,465 výhybňa Trebišov-Hrinište
Station, station
 30,951 Bánovce nad Ondavou
Gleisdreieck - straight ahead, to the right, from the right
 to Uzhhorod
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
 32,300 Bánovce nad Ondavou odbočka
Stop, stop
 33.248 Laškovce
Stop, stop
 37.740 Michalovce zastávka
Station, station
 40.597 Michalovce
Stop, stop
 46.515 Petrovce nad Laborcom
Stop, stop
 49.111 Nacina Ves
Stop, stop
 52.225 Pusté Čemerné
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
 53.345 Strážske odbočná výhybka
Gleisdreieck - straight ahead, to the left, from the left
 to Prešov
Station, station
 54.896 Strážske
Stop, stop
 59,100 Brekov
Station, station
 64.498 Humenné
Stop, stop
 65.270 Humenné mesto
   
 to Stakčín
Stop, stop
 68.911 Kochanovce
Station, station
 70.340 Udavské
Stop, stop
 74.652 Ľubiša
Stop, stop
 77.285 Hankovce
Station, station
 80.125 Koškovce
Stop, stop
 82.720 Zbudské Dlhé
Stop, stop
 85.527 Hrabovec nad Laborcom
Station, station
 90.158 Radvaň nad Laborcom
Stop, stop
 92,450 Volica
Stop, stop
 94,700 Nižné Cabiny
Stop, stop
 96.477 Vyšné Cabiny
Stop, stop
 98.420 Sukov
Stop, stop
 100.875 Monastyr
Stop, stop
 102.687 Krásny Brod
Station, station
 105.387 Medzilaborce
Stop, stop
 106.936 Medzilaborce mesto
   
 110.500 Vydraň
   
 115.850 Palota
   
 119.470 (Bypass 1945-46)
   
 Łupków Tunnel (416 m)
   
119,934
50,588
State border Slovakia / Poland
   
   
 (Bypass 1945-46)
Station, station
 49.020 Łupków
Route - straight ahead
 to Zagórz

The Michaľany – Łupków railway is a railway connection in Slovakia that was originally built by the First Hungarian-Galician Railway (EUGE) as part of a main national connection from Vienna and Budapest to Lviv (now Lviv / Ukraine). It begins in Michaľany on today's Košice – Čierna nad Tisou railway line and leads via Trebišov , Michalovce , Humenné and Medzilaborce to Łupków in Poland .

history

See also : First Hungarian-Galician Railway

Today's line was part of the lines from Sátoraljaújhely to the Galician city ​​of Przemyśl built by the First Hungarian-Galician Railway . It was supposed to connect the capitals of Austria-Hungary with the Galician fortresses. The first part from Michaľany to Humenné was opened on December 25, 1871. This was followed by the extension to the town of Medzilaborce (opening on June 12, 1873). The cross-border route through the main Carpathian ridge with the 416 m long Łupków tunnel was opened to traffic on May 30, 1874.

Shortly afterwards, the line was expanded to two tracks: in 1882 through the national border, in 1887 to the town of Medzilaborce and finally in 1888 to the town of Michaľany.

On September 26, 1915, near Medzilaborce, a freight train with 30 tank wagons loaded with kerosene ran out of control on a slope and hit a hospital train . 36 people died.

After the First World War in Czechoslovakia , the second track was gradually dismantled: from Medzilaborce to the national border in 1920, on the Medzilaborce – Bánovce nad Ondavou route in 1930 and the rest to Micha nachany two years later.

Inscription on the Łupków tunnel (Slovak)

At the end of the Second World War, the tunnel on the main Carpathian ridge was blown up and mined by the Wehrmacht on their retreat in 1944. On November 13, 1944, the Red Army built a bypass of the destroyed tunnel on the strategically important route, which was provisionally put into operation on December 4, 1944. The route was laid a total of 3.5 kilometers long and had a maximum gradient of 38 ‰ per mille. At the apex on the main Carpathian ridge, the switchback station Pobieda, Russian: "Victory", was created, in which all trains had to change direction. On April 3, 1945, the special train of the Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš ran over this route from Moscow to the already liberated Slovakia. The destroyed tunnel was cleared of the mines from August 1945 and rebuilt by Soviet specialists until 1946. On November 7, 1946, the line through the tunnel was ceremoniously put back into operation. On the Slovak tunnel portal, a bilingual inscription in Slovak and Russian reminds of the event: “7. XI. 1946 - What the evil Germans destroyed was rebuilt by the brotherly hand of the Soviet army ”.

The line between Michaľany and Bánovce nad Ondavou was electrified at the end of the 1980s. Electric rail traffic began on December 29, 1990.

On June 27, 1999, cross-border travel was resumed. Today (2019) it is limited to two pairs of passenger trains on Saturdays and Sundays during the tourist season in July and August between Rzeszów or Sanok and Medzilaborce.

Several local trains and express trains with the names " Zemplín " to Bratislava and " Šírava " to Prague run from Humenné on the route during the day .

Top speed

  • Michaľany - Úpor = 70 km / h
  • Úpor - Humenné = 100 km / h
  • Humenné - Medzilaborce = 90 km / h
  • Medzilaborce - state border = 60 km / h

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lupkovský tunel on rail.sk
  2. ↑ Elektrifikáciatretí na Slovensku patriacich pod ŽSR
  3. ↑ Annual timetable 2019
  4. ↑ Železnice Slovenskej Republiky (PDF; 258 kB) vlaky.net. Retrieved June 7, 2011.

Web links

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