Čadca – Makov railway line

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Čadca – Makov
Course book series (ZSSK) : 128
Route length: 26.172 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : C4
Top speed: 50 km / h
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Žilina
   
 to Bohumín
Station, station
 0.300 Čadca (Makovské nástupište)
   
 Čierňanka
   
 Kysuca
Stop, stop
 1.158 Čadca zastávka
Stop, stop
 3.270 Raková-Zemanov
Stop, stop
 4,425 Raková
   
 Raková
   
 Kysuca
Stop, stop
 7.156 Staškov zastávka
Station, station
 8,758 Staškov
   
 Kysuca
Stop, stop
 10.635 Podvysoká zastávka
Station, station
 14.185 Turzovka
Stop, stop
 17.809 Turzovka zastávka
Station, station
 21.296 Vysoká nad Kysucou
   
 Kysuca
Stop, stop
 24,416 Nižný Kelčov
End station - end of the line
 26,172 Makov

The Čadca – Makov railway is a local railway in northwest Slovakia through Okres Čadca . It connects the densely populated valley of the upper Kysuca valley with the main railway in Čadca and leads via the town of Turzovka to the terminus in Makov .

history

The first efforts to build the railway line were made in 1912, when the former Kaschau-Oderberger Bahn (Ks.Od.) applied for permission to build the railway from the Hungarian Ministry of Commerce. The local timber merchants also had an interest in transporting timber faster and cheaper. The concession was granted on April 8, 1913 and construction began shortly thereafter. The railway line opened on July 9, 1914 and it cost 3,658,000 K.

After the First World War, attempts were made to connect the line with the local railway from Vsetín to Velké Karlovice, which is on the Czech side , in order to supplement connections between the two Czechoslovakian regions.

In 1921 a short forest railway to the Kopanice district in Makov was built on a county road, but it was closed again shortly after the protests of the local population.

Today there are several local trains that run between the train stations of Čadca, Turzovka and Makov. Travel time between the two ends is around 50 minutes. Freight traffic is of some importance.

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