Bohemian commercial railways
The kk privileged Bohemian Commercial Railways (BCB) were a private railway company in Austria whose routes were in what is now the Czech Republic . The seat of the company was in Vienna.
history
The founders of the Bohemian Commercial Railways were the Prague building contractors Jan Muzika and Karl Schnabel, who received the concession for four spatially separate local railways in Central Bohemia on May 9, 1881. The Anglo-Austrian Bank , the Wiener Länderbank and Jan Muzika himself financed the construction of the line. The company's shares were primarily sold to the neighboring communities and local farms.
The construction of the mostly quite simple routes succeeded in some cases in a remarkably short time. The Nymburk – Jičín local railway with the Křinec – Dymokur branch was provisionally put into operation in November 1881 during the sugar beet campaign . Jan Muzika ran the routes himself.
After Jan Muzika's death in May 1882, the kk priv. Österreichische Staatseisenbahngesellschaft (StEG) took over the management for the owner's account in June 1882. At the same time, the StEG began to systematically purchase the shares in free float in order to prevent the routes from being taken over by a competing company, such as the kk priv. Österreichische Nordwestbahn (ÖNWB) active in the same traffic area . As early as the end of 1882, StEG employees controlled the board of directors.
For legal reasons, even after the complete takeover of all shares in 1883, BCB continued to exist as an independent accounting and administrative body owned by the StEG, and the vehicles were also not taken over. This was probably due to the different concession conditions for the individual routes, which did not allow transfer to the StEG. From 1885 onwards, the BCB took care of the operation itself.
On July 1, 1885, the Nusle – Modřan local railway came to the Austrian Local Railway Company (ÖLEG) as part of a route swap. The BCB received the local railways Smidar – Hochwessely and Brandeis – Mochow , which previously belonged to the ÖLEG. The Brandeis – Mochow local railway was incorporated into the legal property of the StEG as early as 1887 after all priorities had been transferred.
As a result of the nationalization of the StEG, the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) started operations on October 15, 1909. From January 1, 1910, the BCB formally came into the possession of the Austrian state . In 1923 the lines were integrated into the network of the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD).
stretch
The route network of the Bohemian Commercial Railways had a total length of about 230 kilometers and was divided into five independent local railways including branch lines. There were also 21 tows to factories.
- Königgrätz – Wostroměř with a branch from Sadová to Smiřic
- Nymburk – Jičín with branches from Křinec to Königstadtl and from Kopidlno to Libáň
- Nezvěstitz – Miröschau
- Nusle – Modřan (on July 1, 1885 to ÖLEG)
- Libáň – Bakow with a branch from Dětenic to Dobrowitz
- Hochwessely – Smidar (on July 1, 1885 from ÖLEG)
- Brandeis – Mochov (on July 1, 1885 from ÖLEG, 1887 to StEG)
Except for the Hochwessely – Smidar (Smidary – Vysoké Veselí) and Dětenic – Dobrowitz (Rokytňany – Dobrovice město) connections, which were closed in the 1970s, the lines still exist. With the exception of the Kopidlno – Dolní Bousov section - which was sold to AŽD Praha in 2016 - they belong to the network of the state-owned Czech infrastructure operator Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC).
Locomotives
The BCB consisted of small two- and three-axle tank locomotives from various manufacturers. They were named after locations in the traffic area, but not numbers. The series designations were made up of a Roman number for the number of coupling axles and an abbreviation for the manufacturer. Lower case letters differentiated different types of a manufacturer. Example: IIH - two fachgekuppelte locomotive from H agans.
After the takeover by the kkStB, the inefficient machines, which were only represented there as splinter types, were decommissioned very quickly. The Czechoslovak State Railways, founded in 1919, only included four locomotives of the IIIS series and one of the IIIKb series. The last existing locomotive was the VELIŠ (ČSD 310.204), which was sold to the Podbrezová ironworks in 1930 as a works locomotive .
| Locomotives of the Bohemian Commercial Railways | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| line | image | Names | number | Manufacturer | Construction year | Axis formula | Whereabouts | annotation |
| IIH | - | JIČIN | 1 | Hagans | 1880 | B n2t | kkStB 383.01 | Locomotive of the Neratowitz – Elbekosteletz siding; Acquired by BCB in 1885 |
| IIS |  |
LIBAŇ → DYMOKUR SADOVÁ HOŘIC DĚTENICE → HOŘINOVES KRČ |
5 | Wr. Neustadt | 1881 | B n2t | kkStB 85.05, 11-14 | |
| IIIKa | - |
VŠESTAR MIRÖSCHAU → PŘIKOSIC |
2 | Krauss / Munich | 1881 | C n2t | kkStB 193.01-02 | |
| IIIKb | - |
MODRAN SADOVÁ → LIBAŇ KŘINEC → DĚTENICE KOPIDLNO → RADIMA |
5 | Krauss / Munich | 1881 | C n2t | kkStB 96.08-12 (ČSD 300.503) |
|
| IIIKc |  |
TAXIS FÜRSTENBRUCK |
2 | Krauss / Linz | 1882 | C n2t | kkStB 93.18–19 | |
| IIIS | - |
KŘINEC KOPIDLNO OTHENIO ST. GOTTHARD VELIŠ TŘEMŠIN |
6th | Wr. Neustadt | 1881/1882 | C n2t | kkStB 397.02-07 ČSD 310.201-204 |
|
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 .
- Johann Stockklausner: Steam company in old Austria . Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-900134-41-3 .
- Alfred Horn: Railway picture album 16, The StEG . Bohmann Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99015-020-7 . , P. 116
- Pavel Schreier: Příběhy z dějin našich drah , Mladá fronta, Praha 2009, ISBN 978-80-204-1505-9 , pp. 162–176
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joseph Pospichal, Johann Blieberger: the kkStB traction vehicles , Volume 4, bahnmedien.at, Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-9502648-8-3