Tarnowskie Góry – Opole railway line
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| Route number : | 144 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 175 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 75.924 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | continuously 3 kV = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 140 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | km 22.953 – Zawadzkie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tarnowskie Góry – Opole (Tarnowitz – Opole) railway is a continuously electrified and partly double-track railway line in the Polish Voivodeships of Silesia and Opole , on which, however, only a section, Zawadzkie / Zawadzki– Opole / Opole, is operated.
Course and condition
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The line begins at Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz) station on the Chorzów – Tczew line and runs northwest via Tworóg Brynek (Brynnek / Brunneck; km 10.766), the end point of the former Zabrze Mikulczyce – Tworóg Brynek railway, the former Borowiany station (Ottmuchow / Ottwald ; km 20.819), from which a connection to the Pyskowice – Lubliniec railway runs from the north and south , Zawadzkie (Zawadzki / Andreashütte; km 34.506), from where passenger traffic is operated, and Kolonowskie (Colonnowska / Grafenweiler; km 42.295) after the Fosowskie station (Vossowska / Voßwalde; km 44.474) on the former Kędzierzyn-Koźle – Kluczbork railway , the end point of the Kielce – Fosowskie railway and the former Guttentag – Voßwalde small railway . From Fosowskie the line runs westward via Ozimek (Malapane; km 55.357) to Opole Główne station (Opole [main station]; km 75.924) on the Bytom – Wrocław railway line . To this it runs parallel to the Opole – Namysłów railway line and passes under the Opole – Wrocław railway line .
The line is continuously electrified with three kilovolt DC voltage and used to have two tracks from Tworóg Brynek to Kolonowskie, today the second track can only be used between km 22.953 and Zawadzkie (km 35.030). The maximum speed between Tarnowskie Góry and Fosowskie is sixty to seventy kilometers per hour, for freight trains fifty to seventy; from shortly after Fosowskie to shortly before Opole Główne one hundred and forty, for freight trains ninety. The top speed on the second track is forty kilometers per hour, if it is still passable.
history
On December 2, 1857, the first section, Tarnowitz - Zawadzki, was opened by the Opole-Tarnowitz railway, the remaining section Zawadzki - Opole followed on January 24 of the following year. The 1914 summer timetable provided for six trains from Opole to Tarnowitz and seven back, plus others that did not run the entire route.
After the First World War , Tarnowitz became Polish, but the connection remained completely intact, the summer timetable for 1936 provided for four pairs of trains across the border. A new connection to Mikultschütz and Beuthen OS with a branch in Brunneck was opened on October 7, 1928.
The line between Brynek and Vossowska has been double-tracked since 1983, with the double-track section now being reduced to the section from kilometer 22.953 to Zawadzki . From around 1913 to 1923 this section had already been double-tracked.
Since December 18, 1976, the Fosowskie – Opole section has been electrified - together with the Fosowskie line to Lubliniec , the Tarnowskie Góry– Borowiany section since December 22, 1980 , and the remaining section, Borowiany– since May 21, 1982 Fosowskie.
Passenger traffic between Tarnowskie Góry and Zawadzkie has been suspended since December 11, 2011, while the section between Fosowskie and Opole has been expanded to a maximum speed of one hundred and forty kilometers per hour; In addition to nine pairs of regional trains (as of 2015/2016) on the remaining route, there are some long-distance trains that do not stop on the route except in Opole and branch off in Fosowskie onto the Kielce – Fosowskie railway line .
literature
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. G6–7
Web links
- Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
- Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to Stankiewicz / Stiasny
- ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from April 10, 2018.
- ^ Course book May 1914
- ^ German course book summer 1936, reprint, 1st edition, 1990, Ritzau KG - Verlag Zeit und Eisenbahn, Pürgen, ISBN 3-921 304-77-6 , part 1, p. 149
- ↑ Course book 2015/2016