Bošice – Kouřim railway line
| Bošice – Kouřim | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book series (SŽDC) : | 012 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 2.881 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 50 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Bošice – Kouřim railway is a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic that was originally built and operated as a state-guaranteed local railway by the Austrian Local Railway Company (ÖLEG). It branches off from the Pečky – Zásmuky line in Bošice and leads to Kouřim in Středočeský kraj .
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 concession for a “ locomotive railway from the Peček station to Zasmuk with branches ” was awarded to the ÖLEG on August 28, 1880. The law also stipulated the license for a branch line to Kouřim and to the Karlsthal sugar factory in Svojšice. The ÖLEG opened the lines of the local line Peček – Zasmuk with all branch lines on February 15, 1882. The operation was carried out by the ÖLEG itself.
On January 1, 1884, the ÖLEG license was transferred to the privileged Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company (StEG).
After the nationalization of the StEG on October 15, 1909, the line became the property of the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB). As a result of the First World War lost by Austria , the line belonged to the network of the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD) from 1918 . The first ČSD timetable from 1919 indicated a total of two pairs of passenger trains from Pečky to Kouřim and on to Zásmuky.
At the end of the 1980s, the timetable of the local railway had the heaviest train traffic in its history: the 1988/89 annual timetable recorded a total of 14 pairs of trains between Pečky and Kouřim.
After the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, the volume of travel and freight traffic gradually declined. Faster bus routes and increasing individual transport pulled travelers away. On January 1, 1993, the line was transferred to the newly founded České dráhy (ČD) in the course of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia.
Today, 12 pairs of trains run every two hours on the Pečky – Kouřim route, which is compressed to an hourly rate on weekdays during rush hour. Two other pairs of trains run on weekends in summer as "Podlipanský motoráček" between Pečky, Kouřim, Zásmuky and Bečváry. Historical railcars from the private railway company KŽC Doprava are used .
Today, goods traffic is mainly handled for a tank farm in Kouřim. The connecting line, which is served as required, starts directly at Kouřim station.
literature
- Zdeněk Hudec et al: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007. 2nd Edition. Dopravní vydavatelství Malkus, Praha 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1 .
