Opole – Nysa railway line

Opole Zachodnie – Nysa
Opole West – Neisse

Route number :

287

Course book range :

202

Route length:

48.398 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Route class :

C3

Top speed:

80 km / h

Legend

	from Opole Główne (Opole [Hbf])
0.354	Opole Zachodnie (Stefanshöh / Oppeln West, since 1936)	157 m



	to Brzeg (Brieg) \| Branch OPZ2	154 m
2.934	Chmielowice (Chmiellowitz / Hopfental)	160 m
6.609	Komprachcice (Comprachtschütz / Gumpertsdorf)	171 m
	Military connection
9,866	Polska Nowa Wieś (Neudorf, 1943-2004)	194 m
	Autobahn 4
15,486	Szydłów (Schiedlow / Goldmoor)	197 m
	to Niemodlin (Falkenberg (Oberschles.))
19.720	Tułowice Niemodlińskie (Tillowitz; former train station)	173 m
	Connection Porcelit
25,341	Sowin (Sabine / Annahof)	202 m
	connection
29,149	Łambinowice (Lamsdorf)	208 m
31,998	Budziszowice (Bauschwitz / Bauschdorf)	197 m
34.927	Jasienica Dolna (Nieder Hermsdorf; formerly Bf)	199 m
37.610	Mańkowice (Mannsdorf)	191 m
40,600	Kubice (Kaundorf; former train station)	190 m
44.397	Wyszków Śląski (Wischke / Lindendorf (Oberschles) ; until 2004)	184 m
	from Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Kandrzin)
	from Ścinawa Mała (Steinau) and Kałków Łąka (Kalkau-Wiesau)
48.752	Nysa (Neisse)	189 m
	to Kamieniec Ząbkowicki (Camenz (Schles.))
	to Brzeg (Brieg)

The Opole – Nysa (Opole – Neisse) railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line in the Polish Opole Voivodeship .

Course and condition

Łambinowice Railway Station (2012)

The line begins at the Opole Zachodnie stop (Stefanshöh / Oppeln West; km 0.354) on the Bytom – Wrocław railway line , which was opened in 1936, forty-nine years after the line, and runs southwest across the Szydłów station (Schiedlow / Goldmoor; km 15,486), on which the Szydłów – Lipowa Śląska railway, which is still operated as a freight train to Gracze, branches off to Nysa station (Neisse; km 48,752) on the Katowice – Legnica railway , which is also the start of the Nysa – Brzeg railway .

The line is single-track and not electrified. Passenger trains can travel up to 1.400 kilometers at fifty, up to 5,000 kilometers at seventy, up to 11.900 kilometers at fifty, up to 14.863 kilometers at sixty, up to 15.973 kilometers at forty and on the remaining distance to Nysa at fifty kilometers per hour become. Freight trains are allowed to travel almost fifty kilometers per hour.

The stations Szydłów and Łambinowice are equipped with mechanical interlocking of types Jüdel and Zimmermann & Buchloh and semaphore signals fitted. The Szydłów shape signals are listed as a historical monument .

history

The Opole – Neisse line was opened on October 1, 1887 by the Prussian State Railway. At the same time the branching line Schiedlow - Falkenberg (Oberschles.) - Deutsch Leippe was opened. After the end of World War II , the line came to the Polish State Railways .

The minimum travel time today is one hour and thirty minutes, longer than it was in 1936.

literature

Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. G5

Web links

Commons : Opole – Nysa railway line - collection of images, videos and audio files

Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)

Individual evidence

↑ According to Stankiewicz / Stiasny.

↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from January 9, 2018.
↑ Dirk Pfannschmidt: Szydlow, Stellwerk Sbw 1 on rainer.magic-of-fire.com, accessed on August 28, 2017.
↑ Dirk Pfannschmidt: Lambinowice, Stellwerk Lbn on rainer.magic-of-fire.com, accessed on August 28, 2017.
↑ Pictures of the Szydłów train station ( memento from August 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on mysnip.de, from July 13, 2015.
↑ Course book 10 December 2017 - 10 March 2018.
^ German course book summer 1936, Ritzau KG - Verlag Zeit und Eisenbahn - Pürgen, reprint, 1st edition, 1990.

[1] According to Stankiewicz / Stiasny.