Heřmanův Městec – Borohrádek railway line

Heřmanův Městec – Borohrádek
Course book series (SŽDC) :	016
Route length:	46.98 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C2
Maximum slope :	17  ‰
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend from Vápenný Podol (formerly StEG ) 0.000 Heřmanův Městec formerly Heřmanměstec to Přelouč (formerly StEG ) 3.193 Klešice formerly Kleschitz 5.616 Rozhovice formerly Rozhowitz 8,151 Bylany formerly Bielan Havlíčkův Brod – Pardubice von Chrudim (formerly LB Chrudim – Holitz ) 13,510 Chrudim město formerly Chrudim town Chrudimka 16.770 Topol 18.610 Tuněchody 19,650 Úhřetice formerly Auřetitz 20.625 Vejvanovice formerly Wejwanowitz vlečka cukrovar 23.842 Hrochův Týnec formerly Hrochowteinitz to Chrast u Chrudimi (formerly LB Chrudim – Holitz ) Novohradka 25,954 Bořice formerly Bořitz from Praha Masarykovo n. (formerly kk Northern State Railway ) Moravany formerly Moravan from Česká Třebová (formerly kk Northern State Railway ) Loučná 31.269 Platěnice formerly Platěnitz 33.654 Roveň 38.706 Holice formerly Holitz 42,390 Holice zastávka formerly Alt Holitz from Choceň (formerly StEG ) 46.980 Borohrádek to Meziměstí (formerly StEG )

The Heřmanův Městec – Borohrádek railway is a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic , which was originally built and operated as a state-guaranteed local railway Chrudim – Holitz . It runs from Heřmanův Městec via Chrudim and Moravany to Borohrádek .

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 the " local railway from Heřman-Městec to Borohradek with a branch from Hrochow Teinitz to Chrast " was granted on May 26, 1897 to a consortium of local sugar manufacturers. The concessionaires were obliged to start construction of the lines immediately and to finish them within two years. The duration of the concession was set at 90 years. The route Heřmanměstec – Borohráde was opened on September 26, 1899. The operation was carried out by the kk State Railways (kkStB) on behalf of the owners.

In 1912, the local railway's timetable only showed a mixed pair of 2nd and 3rd class trains over the entire route. The train took about 3.5 hours for the 51 kilometers. Other trains served the sections Heřmanměstec – Chrudim Stadt (a total of four pairs of trains) and Morawan – Borohradek (a total of three pairs of trains).

Holice station (2011)

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 Chrudim – Holitz local railway was nationalized and the line was integrated into the ČSD network. From then on it was administered by the State Railway Directorate (Ředitelství státních drah) in Hradec Králové .

The commissioning of modern motor trains by the ČSD enabled a significant consolidation of the timetable at the end of the 1920s. In the winter timetable of 1928/29 three pairs of passenger trains run as motorized trains are listed, some of which were tied through on the Heřmanův Městec – Chrudim město – Chrudim route. At the end of the 1930s, almost all passenger trains were driven as motorized trains. The winter timetable of 1937 recorded up to eight pairs of trains, none of which, however, ran the entire route continuously.

During the Second World War , the route lay entirely in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . The operators were now the Protectorate Railways Bohemia and Moravia (ČMD-BMB). Due to the war, there was now a reduction in train journeys. On May 9, 1945, the entire line came back 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). On December 11, 2010, travel between Heřmanův Městec and Chrudim město was discontinued.

With the timetable change on December 11, 2011, the public transport authority Pardubický kraj also canceled passenger traffic between Holice and Borohrádek as part of an optimization ("optimalizace") of local public transport. From December 14, 2014, trains again ran on this section, and from June 10, 2018, the traffic will again be stopped.

In the 2017 annual timetable, the route was served by passenger trains on the Chrudim – Moravany route every two hours on weekdays, except on Saturdays , and fewer trains on weekends. Between Moravany and Holice there was a two-hour service from Monday to Friday, between Holice and Borohrádek there were six pairs of trains on weekdays, except Saturdays, and three pairs of trains on weekends with partly good, partly bad connections in Holice to the trains on the Moravany – Holice route.

Web links

Commons : Railway line 016 (Czech Republic)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Route 016: Borohrádek - Holice - Moravany - Chrudim - Heřmanův Městec on www.zelpage.cz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007 , 2nd edition; Publishing house Pavel Malkus, Praha, 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1
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. ^ Imperial law for the kingdoms and states represented in the Imperial Council No. 138/97 - Issued on June 23, 1897
5. ↑ 1912 timetable of the kkStB - valid from May 1, 1912
6. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1928/29 - valid from October 7, 1928
7. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1937/38 - valid from October 3, 1937
8. ^ Deutsches Kursbuch - Annual timetable 1944/45, valid from July 3, 1944 until further notice
9. ↑ "Novinky ve vlakovém jízdním řádu od 11th prosince v Pardubickém kraji" on http://www.ceskedrahy.cz (accessed on January 1, 2013)
10. ↑ Timetable of December 11, 2016 (accessed December 26, 2016; PDF)