Joint stock company of the East Galician local railways
The joint stock company of the East Galician Local Railways (Polish Wschodnio galicyjskie koleje Lokalne - also East Galician Local Railways ) was a local railway company in eastern Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
The public limited company was founded in 1895 for the purpose of opening up Eastern Galicia by local railways and was based in Vienna.
The idea of building the local railway lines is based on the poor transport connections in East Galicia, which would have been a significant disadvantage in the event of war, but also an obstacle for the poor economic situation. Thus, through the law of April 8, 1893, the state suggested the construction of several lines from the Stanislau - Hussjatyn state railway line (today partially preserved as the Butschatsch – Jarmolynzi line ). Count Ladislaus Baworowski , Wlodimir Baworowski , Mieczyslaw Dunin-Borkowski , Adam Gołuchowski and Julius Kornytowski joined forces and submitted projects for several railway lines in eastern Galicia under the name of East Galician Local Railways to the Ministry of Commerce. They were finally licensed on January 23, 1894, resulting in the following routes:
- Local railway Tarnopol – Kopyczyńce (today Ternopil - Kopytschynzi ; route length 72.547 kilometers; opening on November 25, 1896)
- Local railway Białaczortkowska – Zaleszczyki (today Bila-Tschortkiwska - Salishchyky ; route length 51.038 kilometers; opening on November 15, 1898)
- Local railway Wygnanka – Iwanie Puste (today Horischnja Wyhnanka - Iwane-Puste )
- Wygnanka – Teresin – Skała line (today Horischnja Wyhnanka - Teressyn - Skala-Podilska ; route length 42.660 kilometers; opening on November 15, 1898)
- Teresin – Iwanie Puste route (route length 29.842 kilometers)
- Teresin– Borszczów section (opening on November 15, 1898)
- Section Borszczow – Iwanie Puste (opening on December 1, 1898)
The total route length was 196.087 kilometers, operations were carried out by the kk Austrian State Railways , after the First World War the Polish State Railways took over the operation of the lines, today they are converted to broad gauge and operated by the Ukrainian Railways / Lwiwska Salisnyzja .
Extensions not implemented
It was planned to extend the local railway Wygnanka – Teresin – Iwanie Puste from Iwanie Puste to Okopy near the Russian border near today's city of Chotyn .
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See also
literature
- Bernhard Neuner: Bibliography of the Austrian Railways from the Beginnings to 1918 . tape 2 . Walter Drews Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901949-00-3 .