Toruń – Chełmno railway line

Toruń Wschodni – Chełmno (Thorn-Mocker – Culm / Kulm (Vistula))
Route number :	246
Course book range :	last 407
Route length:	53.584 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	30 km / h
Legend from Toruń Główny (Thorn Central Station) State road 91 connection 0.000 Toruń Wschodni (Thorn-Mocker) 64 m Thorn mocker Connections, etc. a. Elana to Kowalewo Pom. (Schönsee) and Sierpc by Sierpc 2,550 Katarzynka junction (Katharinenflur; until 1999) 68 m to Chełmża (Culmsee / Kulmsee) State road 91 6,061 Toruń Północny (Torun North) 68 m to Czarnowo k. Torunia (Scharnau) connection 9.745 Barbarka (barbarks / bar mill) 71 m Connection of fuel storage 12.792 Olek (woodruff pitcher) 75 m 15.674 Pigża (Ernstrode) 84 m 19,430 Zamek Bierzgłowski (Birglau Castle) 77 m 21,811 Łubiańka Toruńska (Luben ( Kr.Torn )) 74 m 26.621 Wybcz (Wibsch) 89 m from Bydgoszcz (Bromberg) 34.137 Unisław Pomorski (Unislaw / Kulmischwenzlau) 92 m connection to Chełmża (Culmsee / Kulmsee) 39,523 Bągart (Baumgart / Kulmischbaumgart) 91 m 43,393 Płutowo (Plutowo / Plauthof) 91 m 47.160 Starogród (Althausen) 88 m 48,957 Brzozowo Chełminskie (Brosowo / Brosau) 90 m from Kornatowo (Kornatowo / Konraden) 53,584 Chełmno (Culm / Kulm (Vistula)) 66 m

The Toruń – Chełmno railway is a single-track, non-electrified railway line in the Polish Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship , which is only passable for a few kilometers.

Course and condition

The line begins at the Toruń Wschodni (Thorn-Mocker) station on the Toruń – Chernyachovsk railway , which is also the terminus of the Sierpc – Toruń railway and the starting station of the Toruń – Malbork railway , leaving it initially north-east, then north-west parallel to it. At the former Katarzynka junction (Katharinenflur; km 2.550), the route to Malbork and Chełmno separates, the latter initially runs westwards to Toruń Północny (Toruń North; km 6,061), earlier start of the Toruń – Czarnowo Koło Torunia railway , then north-west across a connection to a fuel store , where the still navigable section ends, at the former Olek stop (Waldmeisterkrug; km 12.792) and the Unisław Pomorski station (Unislaw / Kulmischwenzlau; km 34.137) on the Brodnica – Bydgoszcz railway to Chełmno (Culm / Kulm (Vistula ); km 53.584), the end point of the also disused Kornatowo – Chełmno railway line .

The consistently single-track and non-electrified line may be driven on the part that is still passable up to Olek at thirty kilometers per hour.

history

First for freight traffic, the section from Unislaw to Althausen was opened by the Prussian State Railways on September 2, 1901 , with the opening of the following section to Culm , which had been the terminus of the line from Kornatowo on the Thorn-Graudenz line since 1883 , on Taken July 20, 1902. On October 6, the section from Thorn-Mocker to Thorn Nord was put into operation, followed by the continuation to Waldmeisterkrug for goods traffic on October 15, 1910, the opening of passenger traffic on July 1, 1912 with the opening of the continuation to Unislaw .

After passing through the Treaty of Versailles forced cession of the Polish Corridor to the resurgent avowed Poland in 1920 the track came to the Polish State Railways . After joining the Deutsche Reichsbahn in 1939 after the occupation of Poland , it became Polish again in 1945. In 1970, passenger traffic between Unisław and Chełmno was discontinued, the section closed in 1991. In 1992, the Thorn – Unisław passenger service was also discontinued, after which the line between Olek and Unisław was closed, dismantled and a cycle path was built on the route.

Literature and web links

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. C6
• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual proof

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