Olsztyn tram

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Olsztyn tram
Solaris Tramino 3000 and 3002 on line 1 in front of the new town hall between the stops Wysoka Brama and Centrum (2016)
Solaris Tramino 3000 and 3002 on line 1 in front of
the new town hall between the stops
Wysoka Brama and Centrum (2016)
Olsztyn tram route
green: gauge 1000 mm: 1930–1940 and 1946–1965
violet: gauge 1435 mm: since 2015
Gauge : 1907 to 1965: 1000 mm
since 2015: 1435 mm

The Olsztyn tram operated from 1907 to 1965 in Olsztyn / Olsztyn , today the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship ( Poland ).

A new tram network has existed in Olsztyn since 2015. It is the only one in Poland that has no turning loops and is therefore dependent on bidirectional vehicles . The network operator is Zarząd Dróg, Destinationsi i Transportu w Olsztynie , the municipal authority for roads, green spaces and transport.

Meter-gauge tram service from 1907 to 1965

In the city ​​of Allenstein, located in East Prussia ( Kingdom of Prussia , German Empire ), the construction of an electric tram was discussed at the beginning of the 1900s . Since no private entrepreneur showed interest, the city administration decided on July 17, 1906 to build an electricity station and tram. The tram was built with a single track and meter gauge. Operations began on December 15, 1907, with two lines running (Polish equivalent as of 2016):

Line 1 station – Remontemarkt (today: Dworzec Olsztyn Główny –Plac Roosevelta)

Line 2 Guttstädter Straße – Jakobsberg (today: 1 Maja – Jakubowo)

In 1909, line 1 was extended from the Remontemarkt to the Allenstein West railway stop (today: Dworzec Olsztyn Zachodni ). Line 1 ran every 7.5 minutes, line 2 every 15 minutes.

At first there was no further adjustment to the growth of the city. The tram network was not expanded for the last time until 1930, line 1 was extended to Jahnweg (today: ul. Jeziorej), for which a short section of the previous route to the Alonestein West stop was closed.

In September 1939, trolleybuses began operating in Allenstein . The trolleybus line 2, opened in 1940, replaced the tram line 2. Since then, line 1 is the only tram line that has operated.

In March 1945 tram and trolleybus operations were discontinued as a result of World War II , on May 23, 1945 Allenstein was annexed to Poland as part of southern East Prussia. On April 30, 1946, tram operations were resumed. Line 2 was reopened on June 28, 1946. The tram was less and less able to meet the demands, the single-track routes made operation cumbersome. On November 20, 1965, tram operations were stopped on both lines.

In 1971 the trolleybus operation in Olsztyn also ended.

Standard gauge tram operation since 2015

Route network of the modern tram

Preliminary planning

Since 1971, public transport in Olsztyn has been done exclusively with buses . From 2004 onwards, the city became aware that new means of transport would be needed after 2007. In August 2006, a first concept for a new tram network was therefore developed. According to the growth of the city, this should be oriented mainly to the south. On January 14, 2010 the project planning of the tram construction was commissioned. On June 26, 2011, the final decision was taken to build the tram network, and construction work began on June 12, 2012. In contrast to the previous network, the new tram network was built in standard gauge .

Build with difficulty

In June 2011 the Spanish company FCC Construcción was commissioned with the construction. The construction costs were given as around 250 million zlotys. Work began in March 2012, but the contract was terminated by the city in August 2013: it had become clear that the contractor would not hand over the building on time. The project's subsidies with EU funds were linked to the start of operations by December 31, 2015 at the latest.

In order to be able to meet this deadline, the construction was divided into five lots, which were awarded to various companies or consortia. Lot B, for example, aimed to build the tram route along Obiegowa Street . The consortium consisting of three companies included u. a. the companies Strabag and Strabag Rail. The five lots were awarded for sums ranging from PLN 24 million to PLN 150 million. The total amount of these awards was around PLN 380 million.

Rail network

The new tram network consists of a double-track main axis 7.5 km in length from the main train station (dworzec główny) in the south of the city to Osiedle Jaroty (ul.Wincentego Witosa / ul. Immanuela Kanta) with a single-track, approximately 2 km long branch to the university and a double-track branch of about 1 km into the city center, except for the section between the Wysoka Brama and Centrum stops. The former tram network is only touched in two places - in front of the main train station and in the city center - otherwise there is no coverage of the old network. The tram depot is located on the premises of the bus depot. It is located away from the line network and is connected with an operating line.

Start of operations

The first test drives were carried out on November 19, 2015, and the entire network could be used on November 24. On December 6, 2015, the tram depot in Kołobrzeska was presented to the population with an open day , which was the first time that people had the opportunity to ride along.

Scheduled services began in three steps at the end of 2015. Line 1 opened on December 19, line 2 followed on December 27 and line 3 on December 31.

When regular traffic began on January 1, 2016, the following network was in place:

line Route Route length Number of stops
1 Trams in Olsztyn - route 1.svg Wysoka Brama ↔ Kanta 6.8 km 13
2 Trams in Olsztyn - route 2.svg Dworzec Główny ↔ Kanta 7.4 km 14th
3 Trams in Olsztyn - route 3.svg Dworzec Główny ↔ Uniwersytet-Prawocheńskiego 5.4 km 11

vehicles

1907 to 1965

Six railcars and two sidecars were available for the opening of the tram, the number increased to eleven railcars and seven sidecars by 1910. In July 1925 five railcars were procured from the Steinfurt wagon factory , this type roughly corresponded to the one at Königsberg (today Kaliningrad ) and Elbing (today Elbląg ), just like in these two cities, the automatic Scharfenberg coupling was introduced in Allenstein .

In 1946 Olsztyn (Allenstein) received used trams from Elbląg (Elbing) in 1950 more from Słupsk (Stolp). In 1956 the first Polish-made trams of the Konstal 2N type reached Olsztyn. By 1960, they replaced the entire previous fleet.

When the tram operation was discontinued, the Konstal 2N were handed over to Bydgoszcz (Bromberg), Toruń (Thorn), Łódź and Grudziądz (Graudenz).

From 2015

Beginning in June 2015, 15 Solaris Tramino in a bidirectional design were delivered for the new tram operation. These three-part vehicles are 29.3 m long and 2500 mm wide. They offer space for up to 200 passengers and have 43 seats and two wheelchair spaces.

In 2017, a tender for up to 24 new trams was carried out for planned network expansions. The Turkish company Durmazlar was awarded the contract for its offer. With a length of 32.5 m, the vehicles will have a width of 2.5 m, 40 seats and a total of 210 passengers. A contract for an initial twelve vehicles is planned. The first two railcars are to be delivered by the end of 2019, the remaining ten by May 2020.

photos

  • Tram in the Olsztyn Upper Town (1908)

  • Solaris Tramino 3002 and 3003 at the Kanta terminus of lines 1 and 2 (2016)

  • Solaris Tramino 3005 on the single-track section of line 3 next to ul.Juliana Tuwima (2016)

literature

  • Siegfried Bufe: Trams in East and West Prussia . 3. Edition. Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag, Egglham 1992, ISBN 3-922138-29-2 , p. 54-63 .
  • Andrzej Bobrowicz: Olsztyn . In: Tramwaje w Polsce . 1st edition. Księży Młyn Dom Wydawniczy, Łódź 2013, ISBN 978-83-7729-215-0 , p. 166-170 .
  • Robert Schwandl: Tram Atlas Poland Poland . 1st edition. Robert Schwandl Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-936573-50-3 , pp. 78–81 , chapter Olsztyn (German, English).

Web links

Commons : Olsztyn tram  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1] metro-report.com of December 21, 2015 (English), accessed on May 30, 2018
  2. ↑ 19 grudnia 2015 - znów ruszyły tramwaje w Olsztynie
  3. ↑ Timetable for Line 1 from December 19, 2015 ( Memento from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Timetable for Line 2 from December 27, 2015 ( Memento from February 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Timetable for line 3 from December 31, 2015 ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ [2] metro-report.com of June 22, 2015: Olsztyn tram handover (English), accessed on May 30, 2015
  7. ↑ Olsztyn zdecydował się na tramwaje tureckiego Durmazlara (Polish), accessed on May 21, 2018