Post #3762666

2026-07-11 19:19 UTC

So the week ended up being tougher than I expected, but back to Polentakt hype: The construction of a Bełchatów-Chorzew Siemkowice-Wieluń line was already envisioned in the previous iteration - now, however, it's planned to get long-distance trains as the 2h line P15 Terespol-Wrocław get rerouted through there. Smart - a connection to Warsaw and Wrocław in around 2 hours can do something for the area, an "inner periphery", now even more peripheralized since the new expressway diverted the main Wrocław-Warsaw road far to the north, via Sieradz. And we really gotta figure out what to do with Bełchatów. As for regionals, the goal is three lines with a train every hour between Wieluń and Chorzew and three out of four hours between Chorzew and Piotrków. Wieluń gets more trains because trains connecting Łódź to the south-west corner of the voivodeship with Wieruszów, and beyond the border also the Turmbahnhof Kępno, would go through there, also forming the main service on the Zduńska Wola-Chorzew section of the Coal Trunk Line currently covered by trains for Częstochowa. Perhaps another hint to a projected draw of Wieluń might be the presence of Wielton, one of Europe's biggest semi-trailer builders. (regional line routes in alt text) 8/ #HRJ #kolej #rail

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@HaTetsu@mastodon.com.pl 2026-07-12 13:48

The north-south axis there, the Coal Trunk Line, would also be integrated into the long-distance network, with two 4h U (supplemental) lines, the U30 Katowice-Kłobuck-Zduńska Wola-Inowrocław-Bydgoszcz-Czersk-Kościerzyna-Gdańsk Port Lotniczy-Gdańsk Wrzeszcz-Gdynia (the new Flisak, in a way, and something that would let you experience almost all of the line by day - I'm not sure they'll get 4 pairs running by 2035, but 2 might be reachable, more on this when we get to Pomerania) and the U31 Kielce-Częstochowa-Zduńska Wola-Konin-Poznań. This is even more sparsely populated land, a bit over a hundred kilometers of line for maybe 200k people at most - but the line is already there, and the platforms have not been ripped up, so a service with older vehicles could be set up relatively cheaply. And we're pretty good at building platforms anyway, so rebuilding them to modern standards should not be an issue, anyway. The regional service is shaped by the lower density and the fact that in Poddębice, the biggest town between Zduńska Wola and the main western trunk line, it'd be very hard for rail to become competitive with road transport towards Łódź: - the aforementioned Ł8 (2h) Kępno-Chorzew-Zduńska Wola-Łódź and two 4h lines to connect the Poddębice section - Ł81 (4h) Ponętów-Poddębice-Zduńska Wola-rapid to Łódź Kaliska-Łódź Chojny-Łódź Widzew - Ł82 (4h) Koło-Ponętów-Poddębice-Zduńska Wola-Chorzew Siemkowice-(alternating between Częstochowa and… Katowice) South of Chorzew, aside from the national U lines and the couple Ł82s, there would be bihourly Silesian trains for Częstochowa and Katowice via Kłobuck - a simple, workable concept. 9/ #HRJ #kolej #rail

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