Mysłakowice – Karpacz railway line
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| Route number : | 340 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Course book range : | 340 (2000) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 6.851 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | until 1945: 15 kV 16 2/3 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Mysłakowice – Karpacz line is a disused branch line in Poland . It runs in the Silesian Giant Mountains from Mysłakowice ( Erdmannsdorf ) to Karpacz ( Krummhübel ).
history
The Riesengebirgsbahn GmbH opened a standard gauge railway in the Silesian district of Hirschberg on June 6, 1895 , which branched off the Hirschberg – Landeshut railway line at the Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf station and ran up a 7 km route to the winter sports resort of Krummhübel . The management along with the locomotive station and main workshop were located in Arnsdorf in the middle of the route.
The Riesengebirgsbahn GmbH was a subsidiary of the general German small railway company . This became the property of the AG for Transport at the beginning of 1926 . The company was initially run by the United Railway Construction and Operating Company , and then from 1905 by the Allgemeine Deutsche Eisenbahn-Betriebs-GmbH.
As of June 29, 1934, the Deutsche Reichsbahn took over the Riesengebirgsbahn as a leaseholder. This was electric u. a. Used with railcars of the ET 87 and ET 89 series. The Kleinbahn's own fleet of vehicles was given up except for two special vehicles. Now all trains ran continuously from Hirschberg and even express trains from the provincial capital of Breslau to Krummhübel.
In 1945 the Polish State Railways PKP took over the route. The contact line systems were dismantled and, like the still existing electric vehicles, brought to the Soviet Union as reparations . Now steam locomotives were used again.
The line was operated by PKP until 2000, and all traffic has been idle since then. The tracks have not yet been dismantled. From 2008 the municipality of Karpacz intended to create a cycle path on the route.
Since August 2016, the Lower Silesian Voivodeship has been planning to reopen the line together with the Jelenia Góra – Kowary section of the Jelenia Góra – Kamienna Góra railway .
See also
literature
- Klaus Kasper (Ed.): The "Riesengebirgsbahn". Zillerthal-Erdmannsdorf - Krummhübel. Memories from back then to 1945 with detailed excursions about some other railways and projects in the Giant Mountains. Pictures, reports and documents. Verlag Klaus Kasper, Bonn-Oberkassel 2004, ISBN 3-930567-18-0 .
- Otto Martin: As a student trainee on the Silesian Mountain Railway . In: Lok-Magazin . No. 132 . Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, W. Keller & Co. , 1985, ISSN 0458-1822 , p. 207-222 .
Web links
- The electric train operation in the Giant Mountains ( Memento from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on Zackenbahn.de
- Electric train operation in Silesia
- S-Bahn-like suburban traffic around Hirschberg on BahnInfo regional
Individual evidence
- ↑ Line kolejowe do Karpacza i Kowar uratowane? nj24.pl, August 26, 2016, accessed February 2, 2018 (Polish).