Zgorzelec railway station

Zgorzelec is the railway station located in the Ujazd district of Zgorzelec, Lower Silesia, Poland. It is one of the two railway stations in the town, the other being Zgorzelec Miasto.

Zgorzelec
LocationUjazd, Zgorzelec, Lower Silesian Voivodeship
Poland
Coordinates51.1402°N 15.0043°E / 51.1402; 15.0043
Owned byPolskie Koleje Państwowe S.A.
Line(s)Węgliniec–Zgorzelec railway
Silesian Mountain Railway
Platforms4
Tracks7
History
Opened1876
Electrified1923–1945[1]
Previous namesMoys bei Görlitz (1876–1933)
Görlitz Moys (1933–1945)[2]
Zgorzelec Ujazd
Location
Zgorzelec
Location of station in Poland

History
The station building as it opened in 1876

When the branch line of Lower Silesian-Mark Railway Company, operating Berlin–Wrocław railway, from Kohlfurth (nowadays Węgliniec) to Görlitz opened on 1 September 1847, it ran past the village of Moys. The railway junction at Moys was created when the Silesian Mountain Railway from Görlitz to Hirschberg (nowadays Jelenia Góra) was opened in 1865, but the junction didn't have a passenger station to serve the village until 1876.

Train services

The station is on PKP railway lines no. 278, which connects this station to Węgliniec, and no. 274, which connects Görlitz resp. the German-polish border via Zgorzelec to Jelenia Góra and further to Wrocław. Both lines are operated by PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe, the national polish infrastructure manager, and served by Koleje Dolnośląskie, with eleven daily trains in each direction on the former line, and seven daily trains in each direction on the other. Additionally, Zgorzelec station was served by three daily Regional-Express trains running between Wrocław Główny and Dresden Hauptbahnhof from March 2009 until December 2018 (except for a few months in 2015). Since mid-December 2018 these trains run between Dresden, Zgorzelec and Węgliniec only.

References
  1. Willfried Rettig (1994). Eisenbahnknoten Görlitz (1 ed.). Bufe-Fachbuch-Verlag. pp. 52, 80. ISBN 3-922138-53-5.
  2. bahnstatistik.de: Eisenbahndirektion Breslau, Zeittafel: Errichtungen – Bezeichnungen – Auflösungen
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