Ruda Chebzie – Zabrze Biskupice railway line

Ruda Chebzie – Zabrze Biskupice
Morgenroth Stsbf – Borsigwerk Stsbf

Route number :

189

Route length:

6.210 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Top speed:

30 km / h

Legend

	from Katowice (Katowice)
0.000	Ruda Chebzie (Morgenroth [Stsbf])	295 m
	Sidings
	Upper Silesian narrow-gauge railway
	by Ruda Wschodnia (Peace Hut )
	to Gliwice (Gleiwitz)

1.616	Ruda Orzegów branch	282 m
2.147	Ruda Orzegów (Orzegow)
	Upper Silesian dirt track
3.346	Branch Kuźnica	265 m

	Bytom – Zabrze Biskupice ( Bytom – Borsigwerk)
	after Bytom Karb (Karf)
	by Zabrze Biskupice
	Bobrek Hp
	Upper Silesian narrow-gauge railway
	by Bytom Karb (Karf)
	by Zabrze Biskupice (Borsigwerk)
	Chorzów Stary – Radzionków (Chorzow – Radzionkau)
	Bytom (Beuthen (Oberschles.) Hbf)	290 m
	to Chorzów Stary
	by Bytom (Beuthen)
6.210	Zabrze Biskupice (Borsigwerk [Stsbf])	278 m

	to Pyskowice (Peiskretscham)
	to Gliwice (Gleiwitz)

The Ruda Chebzie – Zabrze Biskupice (Morgenroth – Borsigwerk) railway is a single-track railway line in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship that is only operated in freight traffic .

Course and condition

Special train in Ruda Chebzie station

The line begins at Ruda Chebzie station (Morgenroth State Station ) on the Katowice – Legnica line and runs northwest via the Ruda Orzegów junction (km 1.616), at which the Ruda Kochłowice – Ruda Orzegów freight line ends, and the Kuźnica junction (km 3.546) , of which there was a branch line to Bytom , to Zabrze Biskupice (Borsigwerk State Railway Station; km 6.210) on the Bytom – Wroclaw and Zabrze Biskupice – Gliwice lines .

The route is single-track, not electrified and can be driven at thirty kilometers per hour.

history

The section Morgenroth - Orzegow - Karf was from the September 15, 1859 Upper Silesian Railway opened, the rest of the route of Orzegow by Borsig work on 1 October 1899 by the Prussian state railways , on 1 October 1900, the link to Bytom .

Passenger traffic was completely stopped by 1966, and the line between the Kuźnica and Bytom junction was also closed.

Literature and web links

Commons : Ruda Chebzie – Zabrze Biskupice railway line - collection of images, videos and audio files

Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. R20-R21
Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)

Individual evidence

↑ Names 1917 and 1943, additions in square brackets 1943 no longer available

↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from April 10, 2018

[1] Names 1917 and 1943, additions in square brackets 1943 no longer available