Mikułowa – Bogatynia railway line

Mikułowa – Bogatynia
Route number :	290 (D29)
Course book range :	PKP 260 (2000)
Route length:	32.468 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	80 km / h
Legend from Wałbrzych 0.292 Mikułowa formerly Nikolausdorf from and to Görlitz 0.850 Abzw Las 3.373 Sulików formerly Schönberg (Upper Lusatia) 8.390 Junction Wilka from and to Zawidów 9.168 Junction Wilka 1 to Görlitz 12,392 Radomierzyce Witka Witka from (Görlitz–) Hagenwerder 14,437 Ręczyn junction 17.514 Krzewina Zgorzelecka formerly Ostritz 207 m 19,170 Bratków Zgorzelecki formerly Marienthal (Sachs) 223 m 24.674 Neisse bridge (border between Poland and Germany) Rosenthal 220 m 24,930 Neisse bridge (border between Germany and Poland) 25,777 Rohnau 224 m 26,118 Abzw Trzciniec Zgorzelecki to Zittau 27,396 Turoszów 27.405 Connection to Turoszów Elektrownia 28,880 Connection to Bogatynia KWB 29.691 Turoszów Kopalnia 31,190 Connection KWB Tur 32.760 Bogatynia

The Mikułowa – Bogatynia railway is a single-track main line in Poland operated by PKP PLK , the infrastructure company of the Polish State Railways. It runs from Mikułowa ( Nikolausdorf ) to Bogatynia ( Reichenau ).

history

After the end of the Second World War, an area between the Lusatian Neisse in the west and the Czech Friedlander Zipfel in the east came to Poland, which is only connected to the rest of the country via a narrow corridor in the north. The railway lines that existed in this area until 1945 could not meet the traffic needs that arose due to the new demarcation. The Zawidów (formerly Seidenberg) station, now on Polish territory , border station to Czechoslovakia, had no direct connection to the Polish rail network. The previously existing Görlitz – Zawidów railway to the west was also completely interrupted by the Oder-Neisse border . The PKP also had no access to the Polish part of the Zittau – Hagenwerder railway line (Neißetalbahn) at that time . However, the railway connection was particularly important for the large brown coal deposits now located on Polish territory around the Turów open-cast mine .

The starting point of today's Mikułowa – Bogatynia railway line was the Schönberg – Nikolausdorf small railway . From 1923, the route led from the then Nikolausdorf (Mikułowa) station to Schönberg (today Sulików ). A continuation to Seidenberg was planned before the Second World War, but was not implemented. Soon after the war, the Polish State Railroad (PKP) extended the small railway, which had previously ended in Sulików, to Zawidów; the section went into operation on October 3, 1948. On May 15, 1949, the connection from Zawidów to the Turów opencast mine with the Turoszów train station went into operation. The section of the Neisse Valley Railway that came to Poland was used between the Ręczyn and Trcziniec branches over a length of 11.7 kilometers.

The town of Bogatynia (formerly Reichenau) in the extreme south-western corner of Poland was connected to the Zittau – Hermsdorf narrow-gauge railway until 1945 . The section of the line that remained on the Polish side was used until 1961 to develop the area in the lignite mining area around the Turów power station . On May 8, 1960, the extension of the standard gauge line from Turoszów to Bogatynia was opened and the narrow-gauge railway in this section was discontinued a little later. The old narrow-gauge railway station in the center of Bogatynia was no longer used, a new station was built on the northern outskirts.

Passenger traffic on the route was discontinued in April 2000. Freight trains run both cross-border to the Czech Republic via the Zawidów border crossing and to supply the Turów power plant.

literature

• Bernd Kuhlmann: Railways across the Oder-Neisse border . Ritzau KG - Zeit und Eisenbahn Verlag, Pürgen 2004, ISBN 3-935101-06-6 .

Web links

Commons : Mikułowa – Bogatynia railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Data on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wilfried Rettig: Railway in the three-country corner, part 1 . EK-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 167 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ryszard Stankiewicz, Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski . Eurosprinter, 2010, ISBN 978-83-926946-8-7 , pp. Map sheet F2 .
3. ↑ Rettig, Wilfried: Railway in the triangle, part 1 . EK-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88255-732-9 , p. 163 .