Grudziądz tram

Grudziądz tram
Konstal 805Na in Grudziądz (Ulica Marszałka Ferdynanda Focha)
Basic information
Country	Poland
city	Grudziądz
opening	June 13, 1896
operator	MZK Grudziądz
Infrastructure
Route length	7.6 km
Gauge	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system	600 V DC overhead line
Stops	18th
Depots	1
business
Lines	2
Clock in the peak hours	8 min
Clock in the SVZ	20 min
Cruising speed	16.9 km / h
vehicles	13 Konstal 805Na 6 Konstal 805Nb 10 Duewag GT8
statistics
Mileage	0.942 million km per year
Network plan before August 2011

Grudziądz tram

Legend Tarpno Legionów / Poliklinika Legionów / Biblioteka Legionów / Szkoła Wybickiego / Solna Rynek Główny Tram depot Track triangle Dworzec Kolejowy Dworcowa / Hallera Al. 23 Stycznia Rów Hermana Chełmińska / Włodka 208 Chełmińska / Piaskowa Chełmińska / Bydgoska Chełmińska / Wiejska Chełmińska / Jackowskiego Chełmińska / Kraszewskiego Chełmińska / Zachodnia Chełmińska / Południowa → Mniszek (1978–1979) Południowa Konstytucji 3 maja Rządz

The Grudziądz tram (German: Graudenz) consists of two lines. The town of Grudziądz has about 100,000 inhabitants and is located on the bank of the Vistula about 100 kilometers south of Gdansk . It has the smallest independent tram network in Poland . The route runs partly on one track and partly on two tracks with a turnaround . The tram network was opened in 1896.

history

The official opening of a horse-drawn tram in what was then Graudenz took place on June 13, 1896. Electrical operation began on May 11, 1899. Operation began with six railcars, the former horse-drawn tram cars had been converted into sidecars. In 1911 it was decided to extend the tram route. A budget of 150,000 marks was made available for this. The tram network was then gradually expanded until the German occupation began on May 10, 1939. The tram was in operation until January 23, 1945 when the Eastern Front approached during World War II . After a six-week battle in the city, the tram system was badly damaged and traffic had to be suspended for about ten months. After the war, the city received, among other things, wagons from Krakow to be able to resume operations. The first vehicles produced after the war came to Grudziądz in 1955. In 1980 the line to Tarpno was opened, where a new residential area was created.

On September 5, 1993, the depot hall was destroyed by fire, which damaged many cars. Operations had to be stopped for several days. To replace the destroyed wagons, six 805Nb wagons were bought from Konstal, they are the only wagons of this type. Although these cars were sold as new by Konstal, it later turned out that they were formerly standard-gauge 105Nb, which had previously been in service in Warsaw , but had been returned to Konstal due to defects, refurbished and fitted with meter-gauge bogies.

On December 1, 2005, line 1, which ran from Tarpno to the station, was discontinued. It was put back into operation in 2007, but stopped again on August 13, 2011. Since then, the tram network has only consisted of one line. The 1.4-kilometer branch line to the main train station will be retained as an entrance to the depot.

On March 11, 2013, the line in Ulica Chełmińska was closed for track renewal work, so that the section to Rządz could no longer be used. As a replacement, buses with the line identifier AT2 operated . The section to Tarpno was served by the re-established line 1 Tarpno ↔ Dworzec Kolejowy. Line 2 did not operate during construction.

From October 1, 2013 to July 31, 2015, line 3 ran the Rządz - Dworzec Kolejowy route .

After the completion of the renovation work on the northern branch of the route, the condition of 2013 was restored and operations on the route to Tarpno were resumed, while the regular service to the station was suspended. The new line 3 to the station was only opened after a few years.

business

As of December 23, 2019.

line	route
	Tarpno ↔ Rządz Legionów - Wybickiego - Stara - Miłośników Astronomii - Długa - Rynek - Szewska - Klasztorna - Al. 23 Stycznia - Toruńska - Chełmińska - Południowa - Konstytucji 3 Maja
	Dworzec kolejowy ↔ Rządz Dworcowa - marsz. Focha - Al. 23 Stycznia - Toruńska - Chełmińska - Południowa - Konstytucji 3 Maja

The T2 line runs between 4 a.m. and 10 p.m. (on Sundays from 5 a.m.). Mondays to Fridays between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m., the train runs every 12 minutes between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturdays and 20-minute intervals on Sundays.

vehicles

Konstal 805Na on Toruńska Street in the city center 1990

Düwag GT6 ex Würzburg at the depot 2008, since 2010 in Łódź

Düwag GT8 ex Krefeld in the single-track section on Legionów ulica, 2011

Konstal 805Na / 805Nb

The tram in Grudziądz got the first railcar of the type Konstal 805Na in 1980. A total of 26 cars were procured, of which 13 are still available. Some cars were modernized in 2010 at ZNTK Mińsk Mazowiecki. There are also six Konstal 805Nb cars.

Düwag GT6 / GT8

The first used trams from Germany came to Grudziądz in 1997. Eight Düwag GT6 were procured between 1997 and 2000. Two of the cars came from Mannheim , the remaining six are original Hagen cars that were in use in Würzburg after the network there was shut down . Some of these vehicles were in service until 2010, six of them were sold to the Łódź tram company. They became dispensable after ten used Düwag GT8s taken over from Krefeld were put into operation.

literature

• Robert Schwandl: Tram Atlas Poland Poland . 1st edition. Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-936573-50-3 , pp. 38–41 , chapter Grudziądz (German, English).

Web links

Commons : Trams in Grudziądz  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• MZK Grudziądz - transport company in Grudziądz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ T3. MZK Grudziądz, accessed December 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ T2. MZK Grudziądz, accessed December 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Timetable for tram line T2 [Rządz - Tarpno] from 01.08.2015. (PDF) (No longer available online.) MZK Sp. Z oo Grudziądz, August 1, 2015, archived from the original on November 6, 2015 ; Retrieved October 21, 2015 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Miejski Zakład Komunikacji sp. z oo w Grudziądzu >> (Duewag) Duewag GT6. In: Phototrans.eu. Retrieved December 22, 2017 . 
6. ^ Miejski Zakład Komunikacji sp. z oo w Grudziądzu >> (Duewag) Duewag GT8. In: Phototrans.eu. Retrieved December 22, 2017 .