Číčenice – Haidmühle railway line

Číčenice – Haidmühle (Niederbay)
Course book series (SŽDC) :	197
Route length:	69.715 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C2
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend from Plzeň (formerly KFJB ) 0.000 Číčenice formerly Wodňan-Čičenic 390 m to České Budějovice (formerly KFJB ) and to Týn nad Vltavou (formerly LB Wodňan – Moldauthein) 4.309 Vodňany formerly Wodňan town 405 m 7.200 Pražák 420 m 10.300 Svinětice formerly Svinětitz 420 m 12,413 Bavorov formerly Barau 430 m Blanice 16.500 Blanice formerly Blanitz 440 m 18.623 Strunkovice nad Blanicí formerly Strunkowitz ad Blanitz-Wällischbirken 455 m 23,321 Husinec u Netolic formerly Husinetz 585 m former protectorate border (1938–1945) 27,577 Prachatice formerly Prachatitz 545 m 29.300 Prachatice lázně 585 m 33.700 Rohanov early Thonetschlag 695 m 36.654 Chroboly formerly Chrobold 760 m 38.700 Ovesné u Prachatic 795 m 41.000 Skříněřov formerly Schreinetschlag 820 m 45.495 Zbytiny formerly Oberhaid 800 m 47.000 Spálenec 785 m 55.871 Volary used to be catfish in Bohemia 760 m to Strakonice (formerly LB Strakonitz – Winterberg ) Teplá Vltava 59.800 Dobrá na Šumavě formerly Guthausen 745 m Studená Vltava from České Budějovice (formerly the United Bohemian Forest Local Railways ) 61.866 Černý Kříž formerly Black Cross 740 m 65,703 Stožec formerly Tusset-Böhm. Tubes 785 m 69.615 Nové Údolí formerly Neuthal 805 m 69.715 Ruttenbach ( Czech Republic – Germany border ) Haidmühle (Niederbay) to Waldkirchen (formerly K. Bay. Sts. B. ) Swell:

The Číčenice – Haidmühle railway is a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic , the two sections of which were originally built by the Wodňan – Prachatitz local railway and the Bohemian Forest Association as a state-guaranteed local railway . It runs from Číčenice via Prachatice (Prachatitz) and Volary (Wallern) to Nové Údolí (Neuthal) . The cross-border section into Haidmühle in Bavaria was shut down and dismantled after the Second World War .

According to a decree of the Czech government, the line has been classified as a regional railway ("regionální dráha") since December 20, 1995.

history

The first projects for a railway in the southern Bohemian Forest came from the 1870s. At that time a railway was planned from Liebenau in northern Bohemia to the imperial border near Kuschwarda ("Bohemian Southwest Railway"). However, the financial consequences of the economic crisis of 1873 caused this project to fail.

Prachatice railway station (2011)

The concession for the local railway from Wodňan to Prachatitz was granted on April 18, 1892. The route was opened on October 15, 1893. The operation was carried out by the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) on behalf of the owners. On May 22nd, 1898, the local railway company received the concession to continue the line to Wallern. The line extension went into operation on October 16, 1899.

In 1908 the local railway Wodňan – Prachatitz merged with the neighboring local railway Strakonitz – Winterberg . From then on, the local railway company operated as the United Böhmerwald-Lokalbahnen . The new company also received the concession to expand the existing route to Salnau and to the border in Neuthal. The new line was opened on June 12, 1910. The border station to the Royal Bavarian State Railways was the Bavarian Haidmühle station, where the Waldkirchen – Haidmühle line, opened on November 15, 1910, connected.

In 1912, the local railway's timetable indicated three pairs of 2nd and 3rd class passenger trains. They needed about 3.5 hours for the 85-kilometer route. An additional train served the Wallern – Haidmühle section on Sundays and public holidays.

Volary Railway Station (2007)

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in October 1918, management was transferred to the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). With the nationalization of the local railway company from January 1, 1925, the infrastructure also belonged to the ČSD network.

With the use of modern motorized trains , travel times were significantly shortened at the end of the 1920s. The winter timetable of 1937/38 recorded up to ten pairs of 3rd class passenger trains, most of which ran as motorized trains. Five pairs of trains served the cross-border section Wallern – Haidmühle, where there was always a connection to the trains to Passau. The journey time on the Číčenice – Wallern route was around two hours, and between Wallern and Haidmühle around 30 minutes.

After the Sudetenland was annexed to Germany in autumn 1938, the section between Prachatitz and Haidmühle came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , Reichsbahndirektion Regensburg . The remainder of the route remaining in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was operated by the Protectorate Railways of Bohemia and Moravia (ČMD-BMB). In the imperial course book the connection was included as course book route 426r Passau – Haidmühle (Niederbay) –Prachatitz . After the end of the Second World War, the entire line came back to the ČSD. Cross-border traffic was not resumed. The end point in the ČSD's inland traffic was initially Nové Údolí. On May 29, 1977, tourist traffic was finally withdrawn to Stožec .

As an innovation reversed in 1950 with a railcar -run express between Prague and Prachatice . In later years there were through cars between Prague and Volary. This direct train connection between the Czechoslovak capital and the Bohemian Forest was only given up in the 1990s.

Nové Údolí station (2011)

" Pošumavská jižní dráha "

After the fall of the Iron Curtain, from July 1, 1990, ČSD returned to the state border in Nové Údolí, where a road border crossing was established. Further planning for the reconstruction of the route to Haidmühle could not be realized for financial reasons. A curiosity is the museum railway built in the 1990s at the end of the line today. The railway operating under the name Pošumavská jižní dráha advertises with the slogan "shortest international railway in the world."

On January 1, 1993, the line was transferred to České dráhy (ČD) in the course of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia . Since 2003 it has been part of the network of the state infrastructure operator Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC).

As part of the reactivation of the Passau – Freyung railway line, a public transport interface between bus and train was built at Nové Údolí station. On the weekends, buses run to Waldkirchen, where there is a connection to the trains to Passau.

In the 2019 timetable, the Číčenice – Nové Údolí route is served by passenger trains every two hours. The trains of the České Budějovice –Nové Údolí line run alternately between Černý Kříž and Nové Údolí , so that there is sometimes an hourly service.

Since December 10, 2017, this route has been served by low-floor regional sprinters (654 series) from GW Train Regio. České dráhy tickets are not accepted. Since July 5, 2018, GW Train Regio has launched a cross-border bus line that is marketed as "GW Bus". It connects the Nové Údolí train station and the border town of Haidmühle with the three-chair lift on German soil. The connections from the trains to the bus and vice versa are adapted to this. This year, the bus line will run until September 16, 2018.

Vehicle use

The kkStB used locomotives of the 97 and 178 series on the route , which were financed by the local railway company.

Until 2017, passenger traffic was handled with the railcars of the ČD series 810 and their modernized version of the ČD series 814 . On the České Budějovice – Nové Údolí route, mainly locomotive hauled passenger trains were used. They consisted of a diesel locomotive from the ČD series 749 and a Görlitz double-decker car .

Since December 2017, with the change of operation to GW Train Regio , low-floor RegioSprinter (654 series) have been running on the routes in the Bohemian Forest.

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  ČD series 810
  (Černý Kříž, 2011)

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  ČD class 749 with double-decker cars
  (Černý Kříž, by 2008 at the latest)

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  ČD series 814
  (Nové Údolí, 2011)

Web links

Commons : Railway line 194 (Czech Republic)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Commons : Railway line 197 (Czech Republic)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Route 197 Číčenice - Volary - Nové Údolí on www.zelpage.cz
• Timetable 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas Drah České republiky 2006–2007. 2nd Edition. Pavel Malkus Publishing House, Prague 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1 , p. 51.
2. ↑ Artaria railway map of Austria-Hungary and the Balkans. With station directory. Artaria & Co., Vienna 1913.
3. ↑ Decree of the Czech government of December 20, 1995
4. ^ Certificate of concession from April 18, 1892, for the local railway Wodňan – Prachtitz. In: Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrathe. Vienna 1892, online at alex.onb.ac.at, accessed on October 7, 2019.
5. ^ Concessions deed of May 22, 1898 for the Prachtitz – Wallern local railway. In: Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrathe. Vienna June 7, 1898, online at alex.onb.ac.at, accessed on October 7, 2019.
6. ↑ Announcement of the Ministry of Railways of February 11, 1908. In: Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrathe. Vienna February 22, 1908, online at alex.onb.ac.at, accessed on October 7, 2019.
7. ↑ 1912 timetable of the kkStB - valid from May 1, 1912.
8. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1937/38 - valid from October 3, 1937.
9. ^ Deutsches Kursbuch - Annual timetable 1944/45, valid from July 3, 1944 until further notice .
10. ↑ ČSD timetable 1950.
11. ↑ 197 Číčenice - Nové Údolí. (PDF) Retrieved February 20, 2019 .