- Kartuzy (PKP station)
Infobox PKP station
name = Kartuzy
city =Kartuzy
district =
address = ???
prec = Dzierżążno
Leszno Kart.
following = Prokowo
water tower = Yes (no longer used)
depot = Yes (no longer used)
platforms = 2
building = Yes (no longer used)
start = 1886
prev name = Karthaus (Westpreußen)
1939-1945Kartuzy is a
PKP railway station inKartuzy (Pomeranian Voivodeship ),Poland . The station is now operating freight transport only, butSKM is planning to open connections fromGdynia toKartuzy . There are also plans of reactivatingGdańsk Wrzeszcz - Stara Piła line, what means connection betweenKartuzy andGdańsk .History
The first line to reach
Kartuzy wasGlincz -Kartuzy line in 1886. The line to Pruszcz Gdański was closed for all transport onMay 29 1994 . The connection to Star Piła was closed for passenger transport in 1997. Connection with Lębork was closed onJune 23 2000 , connection with Sierakowice in 2004On
November 14 1901 line from Somonino reachedKartuzy as a freight line (one month later opened as a passenger line as well). The line was closed for passenger transport onFebruary 1 2003 tation buildings
The station building is now occupied mostly by shops. Locomotives depot (
roundhouse ) is still present together with turntable but in a very bad condition. Second depot was destroyed in 1945 by Soviets.On one of auxiliary tracksPKP class Ty2 -14 locomotive is placed as a monument.Twosignal box es were servicing this station ("Ky" and "Ky2"). There is still presentsteam locomotives servicing object, with water and coal loading devices.Lines crossing the station
ee also
Kartuzy References
*Kartuzy article at [http://www.kolej.one.pl Polish stations database] , URL accessed at 17 March 2006
*"To Kartuzy by train?" ("Do Kartuz kolejka?") article at [http://www.trojmiasto.pl/wiadomosci/news.phtml?id_news=18022 www.trojmiasto.pl] (Pl.), URL accessed at 17 March 2006
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