Mělník – Mšeno railway line

Mělník – Mšeno
Course book series (SŽDC) :	076
Route length:	23.734 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	21  ‰
Top speed:	50 km / h
Legend from Děčín-Prostřední Žleb (formerly ÖNWB ) 0.000 Mělník 175 m to Kolín (formerly ÖNWB ) 1,888 Velký Borek 185 m 4.171 Mělnická Vrutice 190 m 6,985 Jenichov 8.005 Hleďsebe 205 m 9.472 Lhotka u Mělníka zastávka 205 m 10.710 Lhotka u Mělníka 210 m to Střednice (formerly LB Melnik – Mscheno ) 15.203 Nebužely 290 m 17.332 Živonín 315 m 20,449 Kanina 340 m 23.734 Mšeno 355 m to Dolní Cetno (formerly LB Mscheno – Unter Cetno )

The Melnik – Mšeno railway is a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic that was originally built and operated as part of the state-guaranteed Melnik – Mscheno local railway . It runs on the edge of Daubai Switzerland from Mělník to Mšeno .

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 Melnik – Mscheno local railway was granted on January 18, 1896. The line was opened on June 22, 1897 together with the branch line to Střednice. The operation was carried out by the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) on behalf of the owners.

In 1912, the local railway's timetable showed two passenger trains and two mixed pairs of 2nd and 3rd class trains, two of which were connected to Junbunzlau and Alt Paka. They needed more than an hour for the 24-kilometer route.

On January 1, 1925, the private local railways were nationalized and the line was integrated into the ČSD network.

Passenger train in Lhotka u Mělníka station (2006)

The use of modern motor trains in the mid-1930s resulted in a significant reduction in travel times. The winter timetable of 1937/38 recorded five pairs of 3rd class passenger trains that ran as motorized trains. The journey time on the Mělník – Mšeno route was only 42–46 minutes.

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 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).

The 2008 timetable provided for a total of seven daily pairs of passenger trains over the entire route, which ran at approximately two-hour intervals . Some of the trains were tied through to Lomnice nad Popelkou .

Class 814 "Regionova" multiple unit at Lhotka u Mělníka after the renewal of the line (May 2016)

Due to the poor condition of the route, a speed limit of 10 km / h had to be set up on some longer route sections on September 15, 2014. Since then, passenger train traffic has been handled by rail replacement traffic. The repair of the damage was planned for the second quarter of 2015. In March 2015 it was announced that the repair of the line would be delayed until the end of 2015. The route operator SŽDC finally planned a complete reconstruction of the route. The budget was calculated to be CZK 500 million in total .

On December 13, 2015, traffic was resumed with six pairs of trains a day.

Vehicle use

Class 810 railcars at Mělník station (2010)

In the first years of operation, the operation was carried out with light, triple-coupled tank locomotives. In addition to the kkStB 262 procured by the ÖNWB , the typical Austrian local railway locomotives of the 178 and 99 series of the kkStB were also used.

Today, rail traffic is handled exclusively with class 810 railcars and their modernized variant, class 814 "Regionova".

Web links

Commons : Mělník – Mšeno railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mladá Boleslav – Mělník on www.zelpage.cz
• History on www.mestomseno.cz (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Decree of the Czech government of December 20, 1995
2. ^ Imperial law for the kingdoms and states represented in the Imperial Council - Issued on March 14, 1896
3. ↑ 1912 timetable of the kkStB - valid from May 1, 1912
4. ↑ http://www.psp.cz/eknih/1920ns/ps/tisky/t5205_01.htm
5. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1937/38 - valid from October 3, 1937
6. ↑ Trať z Mělníka do Mšena je ve špatném stavu, zastavuje se provoz
7. ^ Reconstruction of trati z Mělníka do Mšena se odkládá
8. ↑ ČD annual timetable 2016 ( memento of the original dated November 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.