Railway line Hrochův Týnec – Chrast u Chrudimi

Hrochův Týnec – Chrast u Chrudimi
Course book range :	1d (1978)
Route length:	10.998 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend from Heřmanův Městec (formerly LB Chrudim – Holitz ) 0.000 Hrochův Týnec formerly Hrochowteinitz to Borohrádek (formerly LB Chrudim – Holitz ) 2.514 Skalice u Chrudimi 4,800 Brčekoly vlečka cukrovar Kinsky 6.646 Rosice u Chrasti formerly Rositz-Seslawek The Rosice brickworks line 8.195 Chrašice formerly Chraschitz 9,372 Chrast u Chrudimi město formerly Chrast town from Havlíčkův Brod (formerly ÖNWB ) 10,998 Chrast u Chrudimi formerly Chrast to Pardubice (formerly ÖNWB )

The railway line Hrochův Týnec – Chrast u Chrudimi was a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic , which was originally built and operated as part of the state-guaranteed local railway Chrudim – Holitz . It ran from Hrochův Týnec to Chrast u Chrudimi .

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 Prague engineering office Reiter & Štěpán designed the route, the construction company B. Bořkovec & O. Dvořák took over the construction. The line was opened on September 25, 1899 together with the main connection Heřmanměstec – Borohrádek. The operation was carried out by the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) on behalf of the owners.

After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in October 1918, management was transferred to the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). The 1921 timetable recorded two mixed pairs of 2nd and 3rd class trains. It took 48-49 minutes for the twelve-kilometer route. 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 .

In the early 1930s, the use of modern motor trains enabled the timetable to be significantly compressed to four pairs of trains. From then on, the motor vehicles covered the route in 25–26 minutes.

During the Great Depression in the early 1930s, traffic performance sank to a minimum. The tourist traffic was then stopped on May 15, 1934 in favor of a bus route.

The track between Brčekoly and Přestavlky serves as a dirt road (2011)

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). On November 16, 1941, the ČMD-BMB resumed travel. The timetable from 1944 recorded four pairs of trains over the entire route and three further sections served. On May 9, 1945, the entire line came back to the ČSD.

Until the early 1970s, beet transport was shifted to the road, whereupon the route lost its importance. In 1974 the remaining freight traffic was stopped. In the winter timetable of 1975/76, the route was used by four continuous pairs of passenger trains, two more served the Rosice – Chrast section. The travel times were the same as in 1931.

On January 31, 1978 passenger trains drove over the route for the last time. A rail replacement service operated until June 1, 1980, when the line was finally closed. In the course of the construction of a bypass road, track dismantling began in Hrochův Týnec in 1982. The Rosice – Chrast město section was used until 1989 to park unneeded freight cars. There was still local freight traffic between Chrast město and Chrast for a while. In 2005 this section was also abandoned and dismantled.

literature

• Miroslav Jelen: Zrušené železniční tratě v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku , Dokořán 2009, ISBN 978-80-7363-129-1 ; Pp. 73-75

Web links

Commons : Railway Chrast - Hrochův Týnec  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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. ^ Imperial Law for the Kingdoms and Countries represented in the Imperial Council No. 138/97 - Issued on June 23, 1897
4. ↑ ČSD summer timetable 1921
5. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1928/29 - valid from October 7, 1928
6. ^ Deutsches Kursbuch - Annual timetable 1944/45, valid from July 3, 1944 until further notice
7. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1975/76