Brandýs nad Labem – Neratovice railway line

Brandýs nad Labem – Neratovice
Course book series (SŽDC) :	074
Route length:	15.215 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C3
Maximum slope :	14  ‰
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend from Čelákovice (formerly ÖLEG ) 0.000 Brandýs nad Labem formerly Brandeis a / E. 0.830 Brandýs nad Labem formerly Brandeis a / E. city Beet loading point vlečka sklad 4,800 Polerady formerly Polehrad at Brandeis a / E. 7.735 Kostelec nad Labem formerly Elbekosteletz 11,380 Jiřice formerly Jiřitz 11,400 vlečka cukrovar Kostelec 13,150 Lobkovice formerly Lobkovitz H. 14.000 Neratovice město from Praha hl.n. and Kralupy nad Vltavou (formerly TKPE ) 15.215 Neratovice formerly Neratowitz to Turnov (formerly TKPE )

The Brandýs nad Labem – Neratovice railway is a railway connection in the Czech Republic that was originally built and operated as a state-guaranteed Brandeis local railway on the Elbe – Neratowitz (Czech: Místní dráha Brandýs nad Labem – Neratovice ). The line begins in Brandýs nad Labem as a continuation of the Čelákovice – Brandýs nad Labem railway line and leads to Neratovice , where it joins the Prague – Turnov railway line .

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 later Brandeis local railway on the Elbe – Neratowitz had its origins in the towing railway of the Bloch sugar factory in Elbekosteletz. The six-kilometer route began operation for the beet campaign in 1880 and was only used for freight traffic.

Jiřice stop with a dismantled siding to the sugar factory (2017)

On January 11, 1898, “ the district chairman Josef Šestak in association with the lawyer Dr. Josef Vitek and the ducal Dömänendirector Friedrich Moeller, all in Brandeis on the Elbe, then the sugar factory owner Ferdinad Bloch and the property owner Josef Stierba in Elbekosteletz the requested concession for the construction and operation of a standard gauge local train from the Elbe privately owned station to the Elbe “Austrian-Hungarian state railway company via Elbekosteletz to Neratowitz, including the existing towing railway from Elbekosteletz to Neratowitz, which must be redesigned accordingly ”. Part of the concession was the obligation to start construction of the line immediately and to finish it within a year. The duration of the concession was set at 90 years.

The line was opened on July 15, 1899. The operation was carried out by the privately owned Austrian-Hungarian State Railway Company (StEG) on behalf of the owners.

The capital of the local railway company at Brandeis, founded in 1903 on the Elbe-Neratowitz, was 638,000 kroner in 1595 ordinary shares of 400 kroner each. The company was based in Prague.

With the nationalization of the StEG in 1909, operational management was formally transferred to the Imperial and Royal State Railways, but it continued to be carried out by the operational management for the lines of the State Railroad Company. In 1912, the local railway's timetable indicated three mixed pairs of 2nd and 3rd class trains every day. The trains took about an hour to cover the 15-kilometer route.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in October 1918, management was transferred to the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). On January 1, 1925, the Brandeis local railway on the Elbe – Neratowitz was nationalized by law and the line was integrated into the ČSD network. The ČSD organized the two lines colliding in Brandýs and built the station Brandýs nad Labem mesto (Brandeis Stadt; today: Brandýs nad Labem ) into the center of operations. The old Brandýs train station (today: Brandýs nad Labem-Zápská stop ) was largely abandoned.

Kostelec nad Labem stop (2009)

Brandýs nad Labem railway station (2009)

In the early 1930s, the use of modern motor trains made it possible to consolidate the timetable. The winter timetable 1937/38 recorded nine pairs of passenger trains on weekdays, all of which were run as motorized trains.

During the Second World War, the line remained in operation of the now Protectorate Railways of Bohemia and Moravia (BMB-ČMD). In contrast to many other routes, the timetable was only limited to a minor extent. For the first time, some passenger trains to and from Čelákovice have now been tied through.

After the Second World War, most of the passenger trains served the Čelákovice – Neratovice route. The number of passenger trains has remained largely constant for decades with eight to ten daily journeys.

On January 1, 1993, the line was transferred to the newly founded 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).

Since December 15, 2013, travel on the route has been integrated into the Esko Praha line system as line S23 . Passenger trains operate the route every two hours , with the trains always connecting to and from Čelákovice.

Vehicle use

For the account of the local railway Brandeis on the Elbe – Neratowitz , the StEG procured two locomotives of the type StEG Vc . They were given the names BRANDYS and KOSTELETZ . After the nationalization of the StEG, the kkStB gave the two locomotives the road numbers 478.20 and 21.

literature

• 100 let Neratovice - Brandýs nad Labem, Saxi 1999

Web links

Commons : Railway line 074 (Czech Republic)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Čelákovice – Neratovice on www.zelpage.cz

Individual evidence

1. ^ Zdeněk Hudec et al: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007. 2nd Edition. Dopravní vydavatelství Malkus, Praha 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1 .
2. ↑ Decree of the Czech government of December 20, 1995
3. ↑ http://alex.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno-plus?apm=0&aid=rgb&date=18980004&seite=00000007
4. ↑ data on geerkens.at
5. ↑ 1912 timetable of the kkStB - valid from May 1, 1912
6. ↑ State Law of Czechoslovakia No. 156/25
7. ↑ ČSD timetable - valid from October 3, 1937
8. ^ German course book - annual timetable 1944/45 - valid from July 3, 1944 until further notice