Sędzisław – Lubawka railway line
| Sędzisław – Kamienna Góra – Lubawka | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route number : | 298 (Sędzisław – Kamienna Góra) 299 (Kamienna Góra – state border) |
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| Course book range : | PKP 247 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 18.2 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | until 1945: 15 kV, 16 2/3 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 60 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | Sędzisław – Kamienna Góra | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Sędzisław – Lubawka railway is a main line in Poland . It runs from Sędzisław ( Ruhbank ) on the Silesian Mountain Railway via Kamienna Góra ( Landeshut ) to Lubawka ( Liebau ) in Lower Silesia . There is a connection to the cross-border route to Jaroměř in the Czech Republic .
history
The railway line from Ruhbank via Landeshut to Liebau was opened on December 29, 1869. The Landeshut – Liebau section was double-tracked. On December 29, 1875, the south-north German connecting line opened the cross-border line to Josefstadt (today: Jaroměř), which from then on enabled continuous train traffic between Silesia and Bohemia. Liebau was designated as the border station. On June 15, 1915, the connecting curve from Merzdorf station (today: Marciszów) to the Silesian Mountain Railway was inaugurated, which now enabled continuous train journeys from the direction of Hirschberg.
Preparations for the electrification of the line to the Liebau border station with 15 kV, 16 2/3 Hz began even before the First World War. On August 17, 1921, the electrical contact line systems were completed. The connecting curve from Merzdorf was not electrified until 1939.
After the Second World War, Silesia came under Polish administration and the line became the property of the Polish State Railways PKP. After the damage to the energy supply had been repaired, electric train operations could be resumed for a short time with the few remaining vehicles in the summer of 1945. In 1945 the electrical contact lines were dismantled as a reparation payment for the Soviet Union .
Passenger trains crossed the state border again up to January 1, 1950, and cross-border freight traffic was maintained until June 9, 2001. On May 3, 2004 the passenger train traffic on the route was completely stopped. If necessary, however, freight trains continued to run to Lubawka. The once important border station fell into ruin in the following years.
However, the cross-border connection received new perspectives with the accession of Poland and the Czech Republic to the EU on May 1, 2004. On June 7, 2007, freight traffic across the state border was officially resumed.
On December 14, 2008, travel was resumed by the Czech railway company Viamont , today GW Train Regio , on the Jelenia Góra - Trutnov route. For the time being, trains only run on weekends.
Season traffic to and from Poland will also take place in 2018. From April 29, 2018, the passenger train service between Sędzisław and Trutnov in the Czech Republic is to be resumed. There are four pairs of trains running on weekends and public holidays, which are intended in particular for tourist traffic. The trains run on the Polish section as D26. The company GW Train Regio takes over on the Czech section . According to the train compositions for 2018, all cross-border services will be carried out by class 810 railcars from GW Train Regio.
There has been daily travel on the route since December 9, 2018. In the morning, a passenger train operated by GW Train Regio, in cooperation with Koleje Dolnośląskie, runs from Trutnov via Královec and Lubawka to Sędzisław, where there is a connection to the Polish trains in the direction of Wrocław (Breslau) and Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg). During the day, six pairs of trains run between Sędzisław and Královec. In the evening the train runs again from Sędzisław to Trutnov. A new timetable will apply from March 10th and from April 27th several pairs of trains will run between Trutnov and Sędzisław on weekends, as in the timetable year 2018. During the summer traffic from the end of April to September, the newly introduced connections will only be operated on weekdays. A ČD class 810 railcar from GW Train Regio will continue to be used. Therefore, this route, which for years only lived from seasonal traffic, is fully operated again.
See also
literature
- H.-J. Wenzel, G. Greß: The Railway in Silesia, Eisenbahnkurier Special 3/2005 . EK-Verlag, 2005, ISSN 0170-5288 .
- Ryszard Stankiewicz, Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. F3 u. G3 .
Web links
- Description of the Sędzisław – Kamienna Góra section (Polish)
- Description of the section Kamienna Góra – Lubawka (Polish)
- Timetable 2018