Wrocław – Międzylesie railway line
Wrocław Główny – Międzylesie Breslau Hbf – Mittelwalde |
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Route number : | 276 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Course book range : | 230 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 136.064 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 3 kV = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 100 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dual track : |
Wrocław Główny – Strzelin Kamieniec Ząbkowicki – Kłodzko Nowe |
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The Wrocław – Międzylesie railway is an electrified main line in Poland . It runs in Lower Silesia from Wrocław ( Breslau ) via Kamieniec Ząbkowicki ( Kamenz ) and Kłodzko ( Glatz ) to Międzylesie ( Mittelwalde ). It is part of a supraregional north-south long-distance connection from Breslau via Brno to Vienna .
history
The Breslau – Mittelwalde railway was put into operation in sections between 1871 and 1875 by the Upper Silesian Railway . The section between Breslau and Rengersdorf has been expanded to two tracks.
- Opening dates
- Breslau – Strehlen: * January 1, 1871
- Strehlen – Münsterberg: * September 1, 1872
- Münsterberg – Warta: * June 8, 1873
- Warta – Glatz: * September 21, 1874
- Glatz – Habelschwerdt: * August 1, 1875
- Habelschwerdt – Mittelwalde: * September 5, 1875
- Mittelwalde state border: * October 15, 1875
After the Sudetenland became part of Germany in October 1938, the Deutsche Reichsbahn built a short connecting line from Mittelwalde to the Bohemian Nieder Lipka to connect to the Sternberg – Lichtenwalde line . In addition to two pairs of express trains on the Breslau – Vienna route, the 1939 timetable also included three pairs of express trains between Breslau and Mährisch Schönberg, which ran over the connecting curve.
In the summer of 1945 the line was handed over to the Polish State Railways PKP by the Soviet occupying forces . The connecting curve over the re-established state border to Nieder Lipka (Dolní Lipka) served the Soviet occupying power for a while and was broken off in 1947 due to a lack of further needs.
In the early 1990s, the line to Międzylesie was electrified with the 3 kV direct current system. The following table shows the opening dates of the electric train operation:
opening | route |
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January 16, 1991 | Wrocław Główny – Kamieniec Ząbkowicki |
June 17, 1991 | Kamieniec Ząbkowicki – Kłodzko Główne |
May 26, 1994 | Kłodzko Główne – Międzylesie |
September 1, 2008 | Międzylesie – State border (–Lichkov) |
The cross-border route to Lichkov and on to Ústí nad Orlicí in the Czech Republic was also switched to electrical operation in 2008.
Route description
The route begins at Wrocław Główny railway station ( Wrocław Central Station ), which is the end point of the Bytom – Wrocław railway and the start of the Wrocław – Poznań and Wrocław – Szczecin railway , and runs southwards via Boreczek (grove; km 26,122), the former end point of the Ohlauer Kreisbahn , Strzelin (Strehlen; km 36.987), where the former Brzeg – Łagiewniki Dzierżoniowskie line crosses , Henryków (Heinrichau; km 51.256), the beginning of a former stretch of the Frankensteiner Kreisbahn , to Ziębice (Münsterberg (Schles); km 57,565). From there it runs southwest via Kamieniec Ząbkowicki (Kamenz (Silesia); km 71.886), the crossing station with the Katowice – Legnica railway line and the beginning of the former Reichensteiner Railway , and Bardo Śląskie (Wartha city; km 84.439) to the Kłodzko Główne station (Glatz Hbf ; km 93,481), the beginning of the Kłodzko – Wałbrzych railway line . From here it runs south through the branching point Kłodzko Nowe (km 97.573), the beginning of the railway line Kłodzko Kudowa Zdroj and another piece in freight transport operated railway Kłodzko-Stronie Śląskie , Bystrzyca Kłodzka (Habelschwerdt city, km 111.336) and Międzylesie (Mittelwalde ; km 129,950) to the Czech border, where it merges into the line to Lichkov .
literature
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. F4 – F5
Web links
- Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
- Description on bazakolejowa.pl (Polish)
- Traffic history of the County of Glatz