Poznań – Szczecin railway line

Poznań – Szczecin (Poznan – Stettin)
Train arriving in Choszczno (Arnswalde)
Course of the PKP route 351
Route number :	351
Course book range :	360, 361
Route length:	205.2 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 kV  =
Top speed:	140 km / h
Legend from Wrocław from Frankfurt (Oder) from Kluczbork DK 5 0.001 Poznań Główny (Poznan Central Railway Station) Island Railway Station to Warszawa , Toruń and Bydgoszcz 2,898 Abzw POD to Piła Ext. 433 DK 92 6.531 Poznań Wola (Poznan Iron Mill) by Zieliniec Samica 12,909 Kiekrz (Ketsch [Wartheland]) 17.743 Rokietnica (Rokstätt) to Skwierzyna 24.254 Pamiątkowo (Pamen) 29,425 Baborówko (Hartschütz) 33,040 Szamotuły (Samter) Ext. 184 Ext. 187 Sama to Międzychód 42.387 Pęckowo (Penskau) by Oborniki Wielkopolskie 51.109 Wronki (Wronke) Warta 59.464 Mokrz (Antonswald) Miała 70.118 Miały ( Mill Flow ) from Inowrocław 78.005 Drawski Młyn (Dratzig Mill) Noteć ; Former state border Poland - German Empire from Tczew from Wałcz 83.728 Krzyż (Cross [Eastern Railway]) to Kostrzyn Drawa ; Wielkopolskie - Lubuskie border 90.125 Drawiny (Dragebruch) 97.148 Podlesiec (Waldowshof) 100.427 Mierzęcin Strzelecki (Mehrenthin) Mierzęcka Struga Mierzęcka Struga DK 22 106.651 Dobiegniew (Woldenberg [Neumark]) Mierzęcka Struga Lubuskie – Zachodniopomorskie border 115.364 Bierzwnik (Marienwalde) 120.838 Rębusz (Augustwalde) 127.315 Słonice (Kleeberg) 133.638 Stary Klukom (Altklücken) from Grzmiąca 138.740 Choszczno (Arnswalde) to Kostrzyn 145.694 Ziemomyśl (Schönwerder) 152.868 Dolice (Dölitz [Kr Pyritz]) 157.260 Morzyca (Blumberg [Kr Pyritz]) 160.940 Kolin (Kollin) 162.997 Strzebielewo Pyrzyckie (Strebelow) 166.605 Witkowo Pyrzyckie (Wittichow) Mała Ina from Godków from Gdańsk DK 10 173,305 Stargard (Stargard [Pomerania]) former connection Saatziger Kleinbahnen 178.009 Grzędzice Stargardzkie (Seefeld [Pomerania]) 181.311 Miedwiecko ( Madüsee ) 185.715 Reptowo (Karolinenhorst) 192.057 Szczecin Zdunowo (Hohenkrug-Augustwalde) S 3 , DK 6 Płonia 195,930 Junction Sz Dąbie SDA to Świnoujście from Świnoujście 198.491 0.000 Szczecin Dąbie (Old Dam) DK 10 to Szczecin (new route) DK 10 from Sobieradz 2.700 Szczecin Lotnisko (Finkenwalde) Odra Wschodnia from Wrocław to the former Wroclaw train station 8.1 00 354,535 Szczecin Port Centralny port Szczecin Port Centralny Lokomotywownia Odra Zachodnia 355.903 Szczecin Główny (Szczecin Central Railway Station) to Trzebież and Sz. Wg. Hetm. to Berlin and Pasewalk

The Poznań – Szczecin railway line is an approximately 200-kilometer double-track electrified main line in Poland . It connects the large city of Poznań (Posen) , located in the western center of the country, with Szczecin (Stettin) at the mouth of the Oder . In its early days, the connection was part of the Prussian Eastern Railway and thus a link on the rail route from Berlin to Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ) and is still one of the most important long-distance traffic connections in Poland. Almost its entire length of the railway is operated by the Polish State Railway under route number 351 guided.

Route

The train starts at Poznań Główny Railway Station (Poznan Central Railway Station) and heads northwest from there. Within the Wielkopolskie Voivodeship , the route runs parallel to Droga wojewódzka 184 to Wronki . The railway continues to Krzyż Wielkopolski (Kreuz (Eastern Railway)), where the route of the former Prussian Eastern Railway is crossed. In the area around Choszczno (Arnswalde) the railway runs within the Lubuskie Voivodeship . Then it reaches the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship . In Stargard (Stargard (Pomerania)), the PKP route 202 from Gdańsk (Danzig) and the PKP route 411 from Pyrzyce (Pyritz) join the route. Along Droga krajowa 10 it goes to the Szczecin district of Dąbie (Altdamm). From there, the trains are directed to a line opened in 1935 as the Szczecin freight line to the final station Szczecin Główny (main station), which is now also part of PKP line 351. The original route led over a bridge destroyed in the Second World War, over the two estuary branches of the Oder to the main station.

history

The first Poznan train station in 1863

Since 1843, Stettin was connected to the railroad by the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BStE) line coming from Berlin . On May 1, 1846, the company extended its main line by 35 kilometers to Stargard. Two months earlier, the Stargard-Posener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (StPo) , founded in the same year, received the concession to build a line to Posen. After about a year of construction, the first section between Stargard and Woldenberg ( Dobiegniew ) was opened to traffic on October 10, 1847. Interrupted in the meantime by the March Revolution , the remaining section to Posen could be opened a year later on October 10, 1848. Since the number of passengers and goods did not meet the operator's expectations, the Prussian state took over the Stargard-Posener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft in 1851.

In the same year the Prussian State Railways opened a branch line to the east from Lugatz in the direction of Schneidemühl ( Piła ). Six years later followed a stretch to the east in the direction of Küstrin ( Kostrzyn ). The station was later renamed in accordance with its importance in Kreuz , the entire place received the official name Kreuz (Ostbahn) from 1936 .

After the nationalization of the Berlin-Stettiner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, the entire route was under the Prussian State Railways. Administratively, the section from Stargard to Posen belonged to the Royal Railway Directorate of the Eastern Railway since 1851. The section from Stargard to Stettin was subordinate to the Royal Railway Directorate Stettin, which emerged from the BStE. From 1895 the Stargard – Posen section was under the Posen Royal Railway Directorate.

Crossing point with the Eastern Railway in Krzyż (cross)

As a result of the Treaty of Versailles , the area southeast of Kreuz came to the newly founded Republic of Poland. Kreuz became a border station . The lines of the former Railway Directorate in Poznan were assigned to the Reich Railway Directorate East based in Frankfurt (Oder) , the rest of the line was under the Reich Railway Directorate Stettin, which emerged from the KED Stettin in 1920 . The traffic was carried out by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (DR), which emerged from the German state railways in 1920, and the Polish State Railway (PKP) founded in 1921.

In 1939, the Polish territory was occupied and annexed by the Wehrmacht , which meant that the management was solely under the control of the Reichsbahn. This led the railway under the course book route 129a. In long-distance traffic, the railway was the connecting line to long-distance connection 46b between Vienna or Kattowitz ( Katowice ) and Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ) or Insterburg ( Tschernjachowsk ).

At the end of the Second World War , the Wehrmacht blew up the bridge over the Ostoder in order to stop the advance of the Red Army . As a result of the Potsdam Agreement , the entire area east of the Oder-Neisse line and thus the entire route came to the Polish state.

Between 1975 and 1978 the PKP electrified from Poznań to Szczecin with 3 kilovolt direct current over overhead lines .

Since 1985 the route has been part of the E 59 corridor, which is to be expanded as a national rail link from Świnoujście (Swinoujscie) via Szczecin, Poznań, Wrocław (Breslau) and Opole (Opole) to Chałupki (Annaberg).

literature

• Dieter Grusenick, Erich Morlok, Horst Regling: The Berlin-Stettiner Railway . transpress, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-344-71046-X ( traffic history ).
• Siegfried Bufe: Railways in East Brandenburg and Posen . Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1999, ISBN 3-922138-71-3 .
• Ryszard Stankiewicz, Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 .

Web links

• Linia Poznań Główny – Szczecin Główny (Polish)
• Linia Szczecin Dąbie – Szczecin Port Centralny (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Linia E 59 (Polish)