Zabrze Biskupice – Gliwice railway line
| Zabrze Biskupice – Gliwice Borsigwerk Stsbf – Gleiwitz Stsbf |
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| Route number : | 147 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 13.063 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 3 kV = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 80 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Zabrze Biskupice – Gliwice (Borsigwerk – Gleiwitz) railway is a double-track, electrified railway line in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship that is no longer regularly used by passenger traffic .
Course and condition
The line begins at Zabrze Biskupice station (Borsigwerk Stsbf) on the Bytom – Wrocław railway line and runs southwest via the Maciejów Północny junction (km 7,920), from which there is a connection in the direction of Zabrze Makoszowy , to Gliwice station (Gleiwitz; km 13,063) the Katowice – Legnica railway line .
The line is electrified throughout and has two tracks. One track can be used at fifty kilometers per hour, the other at eighty, and in the Zabrze Biskupice station area at one hundred.
history
The line was opened on October 27, 1872 by the Upper Silesian Railway , expanded to two tracks until 1928 and partially re-routed. The line has been electrified since October 23, 1980, and passenger traffic was discontinued in 2001, and has since been resumed and discontinued.
Literature and web link
- Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , p. R20
- Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)
Individual proof
- ↑ Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from December 1, 2016