Miskolc – Košice railway line
Miskolc-Tiszai – Košice | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Course book series (ZSSK) : | 169 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 3 kV = | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 25 kV 50 Hz ~ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 100 km / h | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dual track : | Barca – Košice | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Miskolc – Košice railway is an electrified main line in Hungary and Slovakia , which was originally built and operated by the kk privileged Theiss Railway . It runs from Miskolc along the Hernád / Hornád river to Košice . Today, the route is part of a national long-distance connection from the Hungarian capital Budapest to eastern Slovakia and on to Poland .
history
The route was planned in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 1840s, but the realization was stopped because of the revolution of 1848/49 .
The kk privileged Theiss Railway opened the line as part of a continuous connection from Budapest via Szolnok and Debrecen on August 14, 1860.
The electrification took place in sections:
- Košice - Barca: January 18, 1962
- Barca v Čaňa: November 7, 1984
- Čaňa - Hidasnémeti: June 5, 1997
The subsequent line to Miskolc was electrified in 1997; This completed the electrification of the continuous route from Poland to Hungary.
Today several local trains as well as the express train "Cracovia" ( Kraków - Lőkösháza ) and InterCity trains "Hornád" and "Rákoczi" (both Košice - Budapest) run on the route . On May 1, 2011, local transport on the Slovak side was discontinued.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elektrifikáciatretí na Slovensku . rail.sk. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ↑ Menetrendi változások a gyakorlatban
- ↑ ŽSR 169: Košice - Hidasnémeti MÁV . vlaky.net. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
- ↑ Dnes vlakom naposledy ...