The Pozna艅鈥揝kandawa railway is a 389-kilometre-long (242 mi) railway line in Poland. It connects Pozna艅 with Inowroc艂aw, Toru艅, and Olsztyn, then continues to the Polish- Russian border at Skandawa, Kaliningrad Oblast.
The line was opened in stages between 1871 and 1873.
Date | Section |
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20 November 1871 | Toru艅 Wschodni - Jab艂onowo Pomorskie - Double track |
27 December 1871 | Czerwonka - 呕eleznodoro偶nyj - Double track |
26 May 1872 | Pozna艅 Wsch贸d - Inowroc艂aw - Single track, doubled on 1 January 1886 |
1 December 1872 | Jab艂onowo Pomorskie 鈥 Ostr贸da - Double track |
1 December 1872 | Olsztyn G艂贸wny - Czerwonka - Double track |
25 March 1873 | Inowroc艂aw - Toru艅 G艂贸wny - Double track |
15 August 1873 | Toru艅 G艂贸wny 鈥 Toru艅 Wschodni - Double track |
15 August 1873 | Ostr贸da 鈥 Olsztyn G艂贸wny - Double track |
The line between Korsze and 呕eleznodoro偶nyj became single track from 1 January 1945.
On 12 March 2000 the line between Skandawa and 呕eleznodoro偶nyj was closed to passenger traffic and on 3 April 2000 also between Korsze and Skandawa.
Electrification took place in six stages between 1976 and 1990:
On 3 October 2016 PKP PLK signed a contract with ZUE for the modernisation of part of Line 353 on the section Ostrowite - Biskupiec Pomorski and Biskupiec Pomorski - Jamielnik within the project "Work on Line 353 on the section Jab艂onowo Pom. - I艂awa - Olsztyn - Korsze". Work will start in October 2017. [1]
The line sees trains of various categories (EuroCity, Express InterCity, Intercity, TLK and regional services).
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Railway line 353 (Poland) at Wikimedia Commons