Warsaw.E2.80.93Vienna line History of rail transport in Poland

vienna station in warsaw, 1850



borsig engine 1860es of warsaw–vienna line

in 1839, warsaw-vienna railway company founded joint stock company. in same year applied license build warsaw-vienna railway line. construction started in 1840, in 1842 company went bankrupt. shares , property taken on government of russian poland in 1843 , construction continued. first section (from warsaw grodzisk mazowiecki) finished on 15 june 1845, , before december had reached skierniewice. whole line granica ( border ) station completed in 1848, junction szkarpawa station of kraków , upper silesia railway. in same year, after outbreak of spring of nations, first large international railway-military operation dispatched on 200,000 mounted russian soldiers warsaw vienna , budapest emperor of austria put down uprising. in 1859, government of russia turned on warsaw–vienna railway private owners. opened in 1865/66, new double track branch of warsaw–vienna railway koluszki Łódż–fabryczna profitable railway in congress poland.

in 1894, warsaw–vienna railway ordered 13 fast steam locomotives prussian s 2 design, , series of modern 4-axle cars covered transit routes schwartzkopff.

it decided nationalize warsaw , vienna , warsaw , bydgoszcz railways , broad gauge track kaliska railway managed society. 1 year later, decision made readjust warsaw , vienna railway broad gauge track, not realized.

in 1902, warsaw–vienna company built wide gauge railway warsaw kalisz via Łowicz , Łódź (the warsaw–kalisz railway), on route different company s standard gauge line. @ time, kalisz lay near western border of russian empire. in 1906, joined nowe skalmierzyce on prussian side of border, providing direct communication between Łódź , lower silesia.