Dolní Lipka – Štíty railway line

Dolní Lipka – Štíty
Course book series (SŽDC) :	024
Route length:	16.418 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C4
Top speed:	50 km / h
Legend von Lichkov (formerly MGB ) 0.000 Dolní Lipka formerly Grulich to Šternberk (formerly MGB ) 2.082 Králíky zastávka 3.080 Králíky formerly Grulich town 4,943 Dolní Orlice formerly Niedererlitz 7.279 Červená Voda Moravian red water 9,844 Moravský Karlov formerly Karlsdorf 10.935 Bílá Voda formerly Moravian White Water 12,483 Mlýnický Dvůr formerly a court spring 14.109 Heroltice formerly Herautz 16,418 Štíty formerly Moravian Schildberg

The Dolní Lipka – Štíty railway is a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic that was originally built and operated by the Austrian state as the Mährisch Schildberg – Grulich local railway . It branches in Dolní Lipka ( Nieder Lipka ) from the Šternberk – Lichkov railway line and leads in the Březná valley via Králíky ( Grulich ) to Štíty ( Moravian Schildberg ).

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 line was opened on December 30, 1899. It was operated by the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB).

In 1912, the local railroad's timetable showed a total of five mixed train pairs. They needed between 57 minutes and an hour and 17 minutes for the total distance of 19 kilometers. Other trains only ran between Grulich and Grulich Stadt.

Dolní Lipka Railway Station (2010)

Dolní Orlice stop (2014)

After the First World War , which Austria-Hungary lost , the line became the property of the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). At the end of the 1920s there was a significant consolidation of the timetable. The use of modern motor trains has reduced travel times to around 40 minutes. The winter timetable of 1937/38 recorded a total of six pairs of trains over the entire route, and four other partial routes.

After the Sudetenland was annexed to Germany in autumn 1938, the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , Reichsbahndirektion Breslau . In the imperial course book , the connection was included as a course book route 154 m Nieder Lipka – Mährisch Schildberg . After the end of the Second World War , the route was completely returned to the ČSD.

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).

At the beginning of 2011, the OREDO company planned to cancel travel between Lichkov and Štíty and replace it with a bus line on behalf of the responsible authority Pardubický kraj . Trains should continue to run between Lichkov and Moravský Karlov on weekdays. If this plan had been implemented, Králíky would have been one of the largest Czech cities without a rail link. The local population protested against this project with a petition that was signed by over 2,000 citizens.

After further negotiations with the neighboring communities, Pardubický kraj changed its plans in May 2011. Between Lichkov and Moravský Karlov the previous daily traffic offer was to be maintained, while the suspension of traffic in the Moravský Karlov – Štíty section was retained. With the timetable change on December 11, 2011, OREDO finally canceled the transport services in the Moravský Karlov – district border to Olomoucký kraj section . In response to this, Olomoucký kraj no longer ordered any transport services on the rest of the route to Štíty. On the evening of December 11, 2011, the last scheduled passenger train left the Štíty station.

In the 2012 annual timetable, the Dolní Lipka – Moravský Karlov section was served by a total of eight pairs of daily passenger trains, all of which were connected to and from Lichkov and Letohrad . Another ran to and from Králíky on weekdays. From the timetable change in December 2013, three pairs of passenger trains again ran to Mlýnický Dvůr on the weekends. Until June 9, 2018, a few trains ran to the end of the line in Štíty, both on weekends and on weekdays, so that the entire route was used again; since June 10, 2018, only the section to Mlýnický Dvůr has been served.

Web links

Commons : Railway line 024 (Czech Republic)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• KBS 024: Ústí nad Orlicí - Lichkov - Štíty / Międzylesie on www.zelpage.cz

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
2. ↑ Decree of the Czech government of December 20, 1995
3. ↑ 1912 timetable of the kkStB - valid from May 1, 1912
4. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1937/38 - valid from October 3, 1937
5. ^ German course book annual timetable 1944/45 - valid from July 3, 1944 until further notice
6. ↑ Proti rušení lokálek bojuje petice, podepsaly ji dva tisíce lidí idnes.cz, April 30 2011th
7. ↑ Další vlaky z malých tartí zmizí. I přes protesty starostů idnes.cz, May 21, 2011.
8. ↑ Novinky ve vlakovém jízdním řádu od 11. prosince v Pardubickém kraji , Czech Railways, Tiskové zprávy, December 7, 2011
9. ↑ ^{a b} Jiří K. Růžička: Lidé spílali drahám, kapela hrála. Zrušenou tratí projel poslední vlak , iDnes.cz, December 12, 2011
10. ↑ ČD 2012 annual timetable - valid from December 11, 2011
11. ↑ ČD annual timetable 2014 - valid from December 15, 2013
12. ↑ ČD annual timetable 2017 - valid from December 11, 2016
13. ↑ Petr Krňávek: V Mlýnickém Dvoře bude opet konečná . Orlický deník, June 8, 2018.