Skierniewice – Łuków railway line

Skierniewice – Łuków
Parysów Railway Station
Route number :	12
Course book range :	604
Route length:	160.108 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 kV  =
Top speed:	100 km / h
Dual track :	Skierniewice - Góra Kalwaria ; Junction Kępa Gliniecka – Łuków
Legend from Koluszki to and from Łowicz Skierniewka 0.000 Skierniewice 126  m State road 70 to Warsaw Rawka Łódź and Masovian Voivodeships 9,989 Długokąty (1976-2001) 124  m 13.732 Puszcza Mariańska 135  m 19.813 Grabce (until 2001) 158  m High-speed route from Katowice / Krakow to Warsaw 24,650 Marków junction 171  m Expressway 8 26,199 Mszczonów 172  m Connections to FM Logistics and Damco Landesstrasse 50 Connection to Mostva 34.656 Grzegorzewice (until 2001) 172  m 41,599 Jeżewice (until 2001) 174  m 47.963 Tarczyn 153  m connection Landesstrasse 7 Narrow-gauge railway Grójec – Piaseczno 52.570 Gąski (until 2001) 135  m 58,342 Prażmów (until 2001) 124  m 64,340 Branch Czachówek Zachodni 114  m Radom – Warsaw route 65.264 Czachówek Środkowy (1957-2001) 114  m 67.122 Czachówek Wschodni 115  m 73.563 Góra Kalwaria 105  m Landesstrasse 79 , formerly narrow-gauge railway Wisła (Vistula) Landesstrasse 50 76,500 Branch Kępa Gliniecka 95  m 81.665 Warszówka (until 2001) 94  m 89.024 Osieck 122  m 95.657 Jaźwiny (until 2001) 145  m 96,400 Jaźwiny junction 146  m from Warszawa (Warsaw) to and from Tłuszcz 99.285 Pilawa 151  m Military connection to Dęblin Landesstrasse 17 104.620 Huta Czechy ( presumably until 2008) 150  m 110.663 Parysów (until 2008) 154  m 118.231 Chromin (until 2008) 155  m 124.188 Iwowe (until 2008) 178  m Masovian and Lublin Voivodeships State road 76 130.136 Stoczek Łukowski 180  m Świder 136.232 Kobiałki (until 2008) 174  m State road 76 141.663 Jedlanka ( presumably until 2008) 176  m 148.016 Żdżary (until 2008) 170  m 153.783 Krzna (presumably until 2008) 165  m Krzna Południowa to and from Siedlce 157.688 Poważe junction 164  m from Dęblin Landesstrasse 63 160.108 Łuków 166  m to Lublin to Brest (Belarus)

The Skierniewice – Łuków railway is a largely double-track and continuously electrified railway line in the Polish voivodeships of Łódź , Mazovia and Lublin, which is mostly operated solely for freight traffic . It forms a southern bypass of Warsaw .

Course and state of development

The route begins in Skierniewice on the Warszawa – Katowice and the Skierniewice – Łowicz railway , runs to the east, crosses the central railroad just before Mszczonów (km 26.199) , and behind Tarczyn (km 47.963) the Warsaw – Nowe Miasto nad narrow-gauge railway , which is no longer in operation Pilicą and in Góra Kalwaria (km 73.563), the railway Warszawa-Kraków , then the Vistula , in Pilawa (km 99.285), the railway Warszawa-Jagodyn and ends in Łuków (km 160.108) on the railway line Warsaw-Brest , the railway Łuków radome and the Łuków – Lublin railway line, which is only operated here for goods traffic .

The line is electrified throughout and, with the exception of the Góra Kalwaria – Kępa Gliniecka section, has two tracks, but the second track between Puszcza Mariańska and Mszczonów is impassable. The maximum speed is forty to seventy kilometers per hour, with the exception of the Skierniewice station areas, where a hundred kilometers per hour is possible, and Łuków, where eighty kilometers per hour are possible.

history

The line was opened by the Polish State Railways from May 23, 1954 ( Pilawa - Łuków ) to October 3, 1954 ( Skierniewice - Pilawa) , making it one of the few new lines built in Poland after the Second World War. The Skierniewice – Pilawa section has been fully electrified since December 22, 1970, and the Pilawa – Łuków section since December 15, 1971.

On June 4, 1981, a railway accident occurred near Osieck with 25 fatalities when a multiple unit of the PKP series EN57 collided with a freight train hauled by a locomotive from the PKP series ET41 .

Most of the local passenger traffic has been suspended since 2004, and after operations between Czachówek Wschodni and Łuków have since resumed , the route, with the exception of the Czachówek Wschodni - Góra Kalwaria section , on which few passenger trains to and from Warsaw run in the morning, late afternoon and evening , will at best still be passenger traffic used sporadically by long-distance trains. In freight traffic, however, it will continue to be operated in full.

literature

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. E9-11

Web links

Commons : Skierniewice – Łuków railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} According to Stankiewicz / Stiasny.
2. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from January 8, 2019.
3. ↑ Course book March 10, 2019 - June 8, 2019.