Toszek – Rudziniec Gliwicki railway line

Toszek Północ – Rudziniec Gliwicki
Route number :	153
Route length:	19.426 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	3 kV  =
Top speed:	60 km / h
Dual track :	formerly
Legend from Lubliniec (Lublinitz) 0.000 Toszek Północ 252 m to Pyskowice (Peiskretscham) Strzelce Opolskie – Pyskowice and Toszek Północ – Pyskowice State road 40 Kanał Gliwicki (Gliwice Canal) Upper Silesian dirt track from Pyskowice 12.254 Channel 208 m Autobahn 4 Upper Silesian sand railway to Kotlarnia from Gliwice (Gleiwitz) 19,426 Rudziniec Gliwicki (Rudzinitz / Rudgershagen) 208 m to Kędzierzyn-Koźle (Kandrzin)

The Toszek – Rudziniec Gliwicki railway is an electrified, single-track, formerly double-track, railway line in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship for freight traffic only .

Course and condition

Rudziniec Gliwicki station (2013)

The line begins at Toszek Północ station on the Pyskowice – Lubliniec line and runs southwest to Rudziniec Gliwicki station on the Katowice – Legnica line .

The line is electrified with three kilovolt DC voltage and has two tracks, with the second track being largely impassable. The maximum permitted speed for passenger and freight trains is sixty kilometers per hour.

history

The line was opened in 1975 by the Polish State Railways and electrified until February 13, 1976. Passenger traffic is not operated.

Literature and web links

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014. Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. G6
• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)

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Individual evidence

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