Railway line Pruszcz Gdański – Łeba

Pruszcz Gdański – Kartuzy – Lębork – Łeba (Praust – Karthaus [West Prussia] –Lauenburg [Pomerania] –Leba)
The train station in Pruszcz Gdański ( Praust )
Route number :	229
Course book range :	DR 672, 672a, 111t, 111s (1940)
Route length:	134 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	100 km / h
Legend from Gdansk 0.000 Pruszcz Gdański (Praust) to Tczew – Warsaw 1,890 Pruszcz Gdański GPRD 2,000 Pruszcz Gdański GS 3,000 Pruszcz Gdański Cargill 4,536 Juszkowo (Gischkau) 7.122 Straszyn Prędzieszyn ( Strashin-Prangschin ) 8,811 Goszyn (Goschin) 12,151 Bielkowo (Bölkau) 14.015 Pręgowo Gdańskie (Prangenau) 15.668 Kolbudy (Kahlbude) 16,440 Kolbudy Rolbet 18,790 Łapino (Lappin) 22,468 Nięstepowo (Nestenpohl) from Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz 24,892 Stara Piła (Old Mill) 29,492 Żukowo Zachodnie (Zuckau West) from Gdynia 31,270 Abzw. Glińcz (Glinsch) to Somonino – Kościerzyna – Nowa Wieś Wielka 36,529 Dzierżążno (Seeresen; former train station) by Somonino 41.365 Kartuzy (Karthaus [West Prussia]) 47.856 Prokowo (Prockau) 51.277 Garcz (Gartsch) 54.858 Reskowo (Röskau) 57.100 Miechucino (Miechuchin) 60,600 Mojusz (Moisch) 66,483 Sierakowice (Sierakowitz) 72.038 Kamienica Królewska (Kaminitza) 76,650 Niepoczołowice (Wahlendorf) 79.753 Linia Zakrzewo (Linde-Werder) 85.116 Kętrzyno (Kantrschin) 1920–1939: German-Polish border 86,333 Nawcz (Nawitz) 88.878 Rozłazino (Roslasin) from Gdansk from Bytów 101.266 Lębork (Lauenburg [Pomerania]) to Stargard [Pomerania] 103.832 Lębork Nowy Świat (New World) 105.588 Nowa Wieś Lęborska (Neuendorf [Kr. Lauenburg P.]; formerly Bf) 109.471 Garczegorze (Garzigar; former train station) to Choczewo – Wejherowo 116.968 Lędziechowo (Landechow; former train station) 120.915 Wrzeście (Freest) to Bargędzino 128.385 Steknica (Fichthof) 133.644 Łeba (Leba)

The Pruszcz Gdański – Łeba ( Praust – Leba ) line is a branch line of the Polish State Railways (PKP) in the north of the Pomeranian Voivodeship .

course

The train station in Kartuzy ( Karthaus )

The railway station in Łeba ( Leba )

The railway line from Pruszcz Gdański to Łeba runs from southeast to northwest and connects the region of the southern Gdańsk Bay with the Baltic coast . It runs through Kashubian Switzerland in the districts of Danzig , Kartuzy ( Karthaus (West Prussia) ), Wejherowo ( Neustadt (West Prussia) ) and Lębork ( Lauenburg (Pomerania) ). Until 1920 the railway line connected the two Prussian provinces of West Prussia and Pomerania .

(Polish today: Pruszcz Gdański) in Praust put the railway line connecting her to the main route Gdansk Tczew (-Königsberg) that is now a section of today's North-South route Gdansk - Warsaw is. In Altemühle (Stara Piła) there was a connection from Danzig-Langfuhr (Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz), and in Glinsch (Glińcz) to the line from Gdynia to Berent (West Prussia) . In Lauenburg (Pomerania) (Lębork) she met on the Berlin – Stettin – Danzig route .

history

As the first section of the Pruszcz Gdański – Łeba railway, the section from Praust to Glinsch (Glińcz) was opened on August 1, 1886, and a few weeks later on November 1, 1886 the section from Glinsch to Karthaus (Kartuzy) was put into operation. On November 1, 1899, the section from Lauenburg (Pomerania) (Lębork) to Leba (Łeba) was released, and on October 4, 1905, the gap between Karthaus and Lauenburg was closed.

As a result of the First World War and the associated demarcation between Germany and Poland (Polish Corridor), the section between Lauenburg and Kętrzyn was closed on June 28, 1920. The rails between Nawitsch (Nawcz) and Kętrzyn were dismantled until the section was 19 years later was released again.

The disused section at Łapino Kartuskie ( Lappin )

On May 29, 1994 the section from Pruszcz Gdański to Kartuzy was closed to passenger traffic, three years later the section from Stara Piła to Kartuzy was also closed to freight traffic. On June 23, 2000, the line from Kartuzy to Lębork was closed for passenger traffic, and on March 24, 2002, the section from Pruszcz Gdański to Stara Piła was closed for freight traffic. On the same day, however, the section from Stara Piła to Kartuzy was reopened for freight traffic.

Of the total of 134 kilometers, only the section from Lębork to Łeba (32 km) was now open for all traffic and the section from Stara Piła to Kartuzy (17 km) for freight traffic. The route between Lębork and Łeba has been designed for 60 km / h since 2001, the section from Stara Piła to Kartuzy can be driven at 30 to 100 km / h.

Passenger traffic on the Lębork – Łeba line only takes place in the summer months. In addition to modern, air-conditioned local railcars, two pairs of night trains run daily to and from the south of Poland (endpoints Katowice via Częstochowa and Łódź or Wrocław via Zielona Góra ) in the summer (2017 ).

On October 1, 2015, the section from Glińcz (no stop) to Kartuzy was reopened for passenger traffic, and electrification is planned on this section.

literature

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. A5–6
• Wolfram Bäumer, Siegfried Bufe: Railways in Pomerania. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1988, ISBN 3-922138-34-9 ( East German Railway History 3).
• Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-181-3 .
• German course book. Complete edition of the Reichsbahn course books. Issue dated January 21, 1940.

Web links

• Railway network Pomerania 1944
• linia Pruszcz Gdański - Łeba . kolej.one.pl. Retrieved June 7, 2011.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from December 1, 2016
2. ↑ Przez Kaszuby pojedziemy elektrycznym pociągiem z prędkością 140 km / h , Rynek Kolejowy, January 14, 2017, accessed on January 30, 2017