Åódź Fabryczna railway station
Łódź Fabryczna is a terminal station of the city of Lodz in Poland in place Sałacińskiego 1 He is next to the Łódź Kaliska station of the main train station of the city. In October 2011, the station was closed in order to rebuild it extensively and laid in the earth can.
The station is located in the center of Łódź. Front of the main building is the central bus station, where the international bus transport - buses Państwowa Komunikacja Samochodowa and Polski Express - is dispatched. From Łódź Fabryczna there were direct connections to Warsaw, Krakow, Bielsko- Biała, Olsztyn and Koluszki, which shall be resumed after the rebuild.
In the main hall of the old station building, several ticket counters, ticket machines were not existed. On the route between Warsaw Central Station and Łódź Fabryczna wrong every hour of the new electric railcars of the type ED74 " Bydgostia " the resident company PESA Bydgoszcz and therefore requires 100 minutes.
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History
With the growth of Łódź connection to the rail network grew in importance. Therefore, the industrialists pushed for the construction of a spur track to the city and thus a connection to the Vienna- Warsaw, which allowed, among other things, the supply of coal for the machinery industry. Especially Karl Scheibler made an effort. On September 1, 1865, the work on the station began, preceded by the Russian Tsar Alexander II had given permission for the building.
The rails linked the city with Koluszki. On November 1, 1865, the track was used for the first time and on November 10, 1865 was a banquet held at the opening, to which the Russian Governor-General Graf von Berg appeared. The ceremonial handover of the passengers was on June 1st of the following year, although at this stage there was still no station building. At the beginning, there was the importance of the station. 1866 were transported 5,000 tons of cargo and 46,000 passengers. Until 1868, the trains stopped at the street ul Krótka, the present site of the Dom Kultury. 1868, the station building was built by the architect Adolf Schimmelpfennig. The use of the station increased rapidly, reaching around 1890 50.000 tons of cargo and nearly 250,000 passengers.
After the occupation of Łódź and the renaming in Lodz, the name of the station in Lodz was changed mid. In 1945 the station was then the name Łódź Fabryczna.
Rebuilding the railway station
In November 2010, the Polskie Koleje Państwowe published a list of five consortia, which were invited to submit an offer for the reconstruction of the station to a base station. The costs were estimated at 1.9 billion zloty. In April 2011, the offers were published. The offers ranged from 1.541 billion zloty and 2.345 billion zloty. The consortium of companies Torpol, Astaldi, Intercor and Drog i Mostow Przedsiębiorstwo Budowy awarded the contract for 1.759 billion zloty in August 2011. The time being last train departed on October 15, 2011. The compounds of the station will be diverted via the stations Łódź Kaliska, Chojny and Widzew.
The station is being converted into an underground through station. This creates a connection to the Kaliska Station. The renovation is part of a planned high- speed line.
The construction schedule is planned as follows:
- 2011: decommissioning of the station and preparation of the site.
- 2012: Removal of the tracks, earthworks, construction of the tunnel and relocation of the networks under the earth
- 2013: Continuation of underground mines, construction or reconstruction of roads
- 2014: Construction of the railway station and close to public transport
- 2015: Completion and opening of the railway station