Railway line Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Brzeziny Śląskie

Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Brzeziny Śląskie Zombkowitz – Birkenhain (Oberschles)
Route number :	183
Route length:	22.645 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	20 km / h
Legend by Zawiercie (1943 Warthenau) 0.000 Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice (1943 Zombkowitz) 298 m after Jaworzno Szczakowa (1943 Szczakowa) after Dąbrowa Górnicza (1943 Dabrowa Gornicza) Expressway 1 by Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce (1943 Strzemieszyce Nord) 3,910 Dąbrowa Górnicza Piekło junction 271 m Freight line Connection to DB Cargo Polska Upper Silesian dirt track Sidings, including the Łagisza power station 8.369 Będzin Łagisza 279 m State road 86 12.765 Gródków 297 m Connection sawmill 15.281 Będzin Grodziec 290 m Connection of Grodziec coal mine and cement works 16.635 Będzin Wojkowice 284 m Connection to the Jowisz coal mine Upper Silesian dirt track Brynica (Brinitza) Sidings from Chorzów Stary (1943 Königshütte (Oberschles) Ost) 22.645 Brzeziny Śląskie (1943 birch grove (Oberschles)) 285 m to Radzionków (Radzionkau)

The Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Brzeziny Śląskie railway is a partly still operated, partly disused railway in the Polish Silesian Voivodeship .

Course and condition

The line begins at Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice station on the Warszawa – Katowice line , which is the start of the Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice – Kraków line , and runs westwards via the Dąbrowa Górnicza Piekło junction (km 3,910), to which a connecting line from Warszawa - Katowice from the direction of Katowice and from the Dąbrowa Górnicza Strzemieszyce – Dąbrowa Górnicza railway line existed, to Brzeziny Śląskie (km 22.645) on the Chorzów – Radzionków railway line . In between there are still partly serviced connections, such as the Łagisza power plant at Będzin Łagisza station (km 8.369), up to which the line belongs to PKP Polskie line Kolejowe . A DB Cargo Polska service station is also connected to the rail network via the route. In contrast, the Grodziec coal mine at Będzin Grodziec station , the cement works at the same location and station and a sawmill near Gródków are no longer served .

The line is single-track and not electrified until Będzin Łagisza can be driven at twenty kilometers per hour, between Będzin Wojkowice and Brzeziny Śląskie it is closed. The maximum speed in the Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice station area is forty kilometers per hour.

history

The section Dąbrowa Górnicza Ząbkowice –Dąbrowa Górnicza Piekło was opened in 1910 by the Warsaw-Vienna Railway for freight traffic and extended to Wojkowice around 1915 under German occupation during the First World War as a Prussian military railway . The last section, Wojkowice – Brzeziny Śląskie, was opened by the Deutsche Reichsbahn on September 27, 1942 under German occupation during World War II . Passenger traffic was operated from 1948 to November 1, 1981 at the latest, in the winter of 1980/81 still with two or three connections per direction, which after the suspension of passenger traffic on the Chorzów – Radzionków railway line represented the last connection between the Brzeziny Śląskie station and rail passenger traffic; the last section built was shut down in 1986 and dismantled in 1992.

Literature and web link

• Ryszard Stankiewicz and Marcin Stiasny: Atlas Linii Kolejowych Polski 2014 . Eurosprinter, Rybnik 2014, ISBN 978-83-63652-12-8 , pp. R21-R22
• Description on atlaskolejowy.net (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Maximum speeds for wagon trains , multiple units and freight trains from December 6, 2017
2. ^ Course book summer 1948 , in the course book 1943 the route is not yet listed.
3. ^ Course book 1980/81