Ruda Kochłowice – Ruda Orzegów railway line

Ruda Kochłowice – Ruda Orzegów Kochlowitz – Orzegow
Route number :	187
Route length:	8.938 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Katowice Ligota (Idaweiche) from Chorzów Batory (Bismarck Hut) from Nowy Wirek coal mine 0.000 Ruda Kochłowice (Kochlowitz) 277 m to Gliwice (Gleiwitz) 1,880 Ruda Nowy Wirek (from 1960) 282 m Upper Silesian Sand Railway (1953-2005) Dirt track 4,267 Ruda Czarny Las (Black Forest) 291 m 1.235 Ruda Wirek Nowowiejski (1875–1982) 5.233 Ruda Nowy Bytom (Friedenshütte Hp. (Schulstrasse)) 307 m from the peace pit and peace hut 5.323 Ruda Wschodnia (Peace Hut) 308 m Upper Silesian narrow-gauge railway to and from Gliwice (Gleiwitz) Upper Silesian Sand Railway (1953-2004) connection 7,500 Ruda Chebzie (Morgenroth [Stsbf]) 295 m Chorzów Batory – Gliwice (Bismarckhütte – Gleiwitz) Connection and with hairpin to the route to Chorzów Batory by Ruda Chebzie (Morgenroth) 8,938 Junction Ruda Orzegów (Orzegow) 278 m to Zabrze Biskupice (Borsigwerk)

The Ruda Kochłowice – Ruda Orzegów (Kochlowitz – Orzegow) railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship that is no longer used by passenger traffic and is partially closed .

Course and condition

The route began in the Ruda Kochłowice (Kochlowitz) station on the Katowice Ligota – Gliwice railway , which is also the end point of the route from Chorzów Batory . It ran first northwards, then westwards to the Ruda Czarny Las station (Black Forest; km 4.267), which is located at the Friedensgrube and from which the line is still in operation, from here it runs northwards via the Ruda Wschodnia station (peace hut; km 5.323) , the beginning of the former route to Gliwice , crosses the Katowice – Legnica railway line at Ruda Chebzie (Morgenroth State Railway Station / Morgenroth; km 7.500) and ends at the Ruda Orzegów (Orzegow; km 8.938e) railway line on the Ruda Chebzie – Zabrze Biskupice railway line .

The route is single-track, not electrified, and trains of all kinds are allowed to travel at thirty kilometers per hour from the kilometer point 3,597.

history

The first section of today's route No. 187 was opened by the Upper Silesian Railway (OSE) on November 8, 1855, from Morgenroth to Friedenshütte with continuation to Gleiwitz , followed by the section from Morgenroth to Orzegow with continuation to Beuthen on September 15, 1859 . The section from Kochlowitz to Friedenshütte was put into operation on January 2, 1906 by the Prussian State Railways , of which the Upper Silesian Railway had become part.

With the division of Upper Silesia along the so-called Sforza Line in 1921 as a result of the First World War , the Versailles Treaty and the referendum in Upper Silesia , the line now ran in the re-established Second Polish Republic and became part of the Polish State Railways . After the occupation of Poland in World War II , the line became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , and after the end of the war it became part of the Polish State Railways.

Passenger traffic between Chebzie (Morgenroth, today Ruda Chebzie) and Ruda Orzegów (Orzegow) ceased on October 1, 1966, between Ruda Kochłowice (Kochlowitz) and Ruda Chebzie on November 1, 1980, between Ruda Kochłowice and Ruda Czarny Las (Black Forest) the line was shut down on November 28, 2000.

literature

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. R20-21

Web links

• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description and historical timetables on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Remarks

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