Tunel – Sosnowiec railway line

Tunel – Sosnowiec
Route number :	62
Course book range :	105
Route length:	83.304 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	110 km / h
Dual track :	Tunel – Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce
Legend from Kozłów 0.750 Tunel (TUNEL) 352 m to Kraków (Krakow) Charsznica – Miechów narrow-gauge railway 7.793 Charsznica (Charsznica) 353 m Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa (LHS) 12,500 Gajówka 365 m 16.894 Jeżówka 403 m Connection Fagumit 22.296 Wolbrom (Wolbrom) 382 m 28,000 Zarzecze 360 m 30.560 Chrząstowice Olkuskie 352 m connections 35.744 Jaroszowiec Olkuski ( Rabsztyn ) 346 m Connection to Saint-Gobain glassworks State Road 94 45.021 Olkusz (Ilkenau) 358 m connections 53,538 Bukowno (Bukowno) 308 m to Jaworzno Szczakowa 57.338 Bukowno Przymiarki 300 m Lesser Poland and Silesia Voivodeships LHS to Sławków Południowy Connection ZWM / from Sławków Południowy 61.261 Sławków (Slawkow) 299 m by Dąbrowa Górnicza Towarowa Connection from Sławków Południowy 65.941 Dąbrowa Górnicza Wschodnia (Gornik) 284 m to the Dorota junction Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Dorota 69.221 Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce (Strzemieszyce North) 282 m to Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice to Sosnowiec Zagórze 73.608 Sosnowiec Kazimierz (Kazimierz) 264 m Connection to the Kazimierz-Juliusz coal mine Branch points SKZ2 and SKZ1 to Sosnowiec Maczki 75.685 Sosnowiec Porąbka 258 m from the Dorota junction Expressway 1 Route between Porąbka-Klimontów and Niwka Coal Mines 78.930 Sosnowiec Dańdówka (Dandowka) 263 m Connection to Arcelor Mittal Huta Cedler to the Sosnowiec coal mine 80.467 Mieszko SH from Niwka coal mine to Katowice Muchowiec Container terminal 82.732 Sosnowiec Południowy (Sosnowitz South) 254 m to and from Katowice 84.054 Sosnowiec Główny (Sosnowitz North) 255 m to Dąbrowa Górnicza

The Tunel – Sosnowiec railway is an electrified railway line in the Polish Lesser Poland and Silesia voivodeships .

course

The line begins at Tunel station (km 0.750) on the Warszawa – Kraków railway line and runs southwest via Charsznica station (km 7.793), formerly the starting point of the Charsznica – Kocmyrzów narrow-gauge railway , and soon parallel to Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa (LHS) to Bukowno station (km 53.538), the beginning of the Bukowno – Jaworzno railway line, which is no longer operated for passengers , then north-west, with the LHS soon ending, via Dąbrowa Górnicza Wschodnia station (km 65.941), where the Dąbrowa Górnicza Towarowa – Panewnik railway line is crossed for the first time, to the station Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce (km 69.221), the start of the railway line Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce-Dąbrowa Górnicza , then southwestward over the Keilbahnhof Sosnowiec Kazimierz (km 73.608), the beginning of the railway line Sosnowiec Kazimierz Sosnowiec Maczki , the railway station Sosnowiec Dandowka km (78.930 ), where the Dąbrowa Górnicza Towarowa – Panewnik railway is crossed again, and then north-west via de n Sosnowiec Południowy station (km 82.732) and the following triangular track to the Warsaw – Katowice railway line to Sosnowiec Główny station (km 84.054) on the same line.

State of development

Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce Railway Station (2008)

The line is double-tracked to Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce, then expanded to a single track and electrified with 3000 volts DC.

On the track in the direction of Sosnowiec, the maximum speed up to kilometer point 14,000 for passenger trains is fifty to sixty kilometers per hour, for freight trains forty to sixty, up to kilometer point 54.447 forty for all types of train (km 45.743-52.914 one hundred and twenty for passenger trains, eighty for freight trains), to at kilometer point 60.867 one hundred and twenty or eighty, up to kilometer point 69.814 seventy or sixty to seventy, up to kilometer point 78.137 one hundred or sixty, up to kilometer point 82.290 for all types of trains seventy, then sixty. On the opposite track it is up to the kilometer point 14,000 sixty to seventy kilometers per hour for passenger trains and fifty to sixty for freight trains, up to kilometer point 54.396 one hundred and ten or fifty to sixty, to kilometer point 60.867 one hundred twenty or eighty, then to the end of the opposite track at kilometer point 69.534 still seventy kilometers per hour.

history

Strzemieszyce Railway Station (1917)

On January 25, 1885, the Ivangorod-Dombrower Railway opened the route from Radom via Kielce and Sędziszów and Przysieka (now Kozłów ) and Wolbrom to Strzemieszyce on what was then Russian territory - the next day, the continuation to Dombrowa . Commissioning between Strzemieszyce and Sosnowitz took place on September 1, 1887. At that time, the line was still built in Russian broad gauge , the gauge was changed to standard gauge in 1922, after Poland was re-established after the First World War and the Polish State Railways had been founded. During the German occupation in World War II , the line west of Wolbrom belonged to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , from Wolbrom to the Eastern Railway in the Generalgouvernement .

Between Tunel train station - opened in 1900, the line from there to Krakow was inaugurated in 1934 - and Strzemieszyce, the line has been double-tracked since around 1900. Between Tunel and Kazimierz (today Kazimierz Górniczy) it has been electrified with three kilovolts DC since September 8, the rest of the route followed until April 29, 1967.

literature

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. G7-G8

Web links

Commons : Tunel – Sosnowiec railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
• Description, pictures and historical timetables on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ^ German station names according to the course book 1943.
2. ↑ PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe : Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from April 10, 2018.