Tarnowskie Góry – Zawiercie railway line
| Tarnowskie Góry – Zawiercie Tarnowitz – Warthenau |
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| Route number : | 182 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 44.949 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 20 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tarnowskie Góry – Zawiercie (Tarnowitz – Warthenau) railway is a partly still operated, partly disused railway line in the Polish Voivodeship of Silesia .
Course and condition
The Tarnowskie Góry – Zawiercie railway begins at the Tarnowskie Góry (Tarnowitz) station on the Chorzów – Tczew railway line , the so-called coal highway , and runs first northwards through the Tarnowskie Góry marshalling yard, then east via Siewierz (Sewern; km 30,201) to Zawiercie ( Warthen; km 30,201) km 44,949) on the Warsaw – Katowice railway line .
The route is still passable from Tarnowskie Góry up to kilometer 4.820 and from kilometer 29.200 ( Electrolux connection) at Siewierz to Zawiercie at twenty kilometers per hour, the rest of the route is impassable.
history
As the first section, the Poręba –Zawiercie section was opened as a single-track freight train line by the Polish State Railways on July 22, 1937 , the remaining line Tarnowitz (Tarnowskie Góry) - Warthenau (Zawiercie) was opened on August 10, 1942 under German occupation by the Deutsche Reichsbahn , at the same time, the previous section of passenger traffic was added. The timetable of May 1943 provided for three pairs of trains.
On July 1, 1964 on the section Tarnowskie Góry - Miasteczko Śląskie Żyglin the passenger traffic was stopped, on the remaining route to Zawiercie it was maintained until July 30, 1975. Freight traffic has also been suspended since then, except in the area of the Tarnowskie Góry marshalling yard and on the Siewierz – Tarnowskie Góry section. 2000 in Miasteczko Śląskie the bridge over the narrow-gauge railway Pole Północne - Bibiela and the 908 voivodship road was demolished.
Literature and web links
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. G7
- Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
- Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)
Individual evidence
- ^ German station names from 1943 according to the course book summer 1943 .
- ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from January 8, 2019.
- ↑ Kursbuch 1943 on deutsches-kursbuch.de .