Püspökladány – Oradea railway line
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 Railway station in Püspökladány
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| Course book range : | CFR : 300, MÁV : 101 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 68.069 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Püspökladány – Oradea railway is a main line in Hungary and Romania , which was originally built and operated by the kk privileged Theiss Railway . It runs in the east of the Great Hungarian Plain .
history
When it was built, the railway line was on the territory of Hungary within the Habsburg dual monarchy . The line was built as part of the scheduled development of the eastern part of the Great Hungarian Plain, after the railway from Budapest to Szolnok was opened in 1847 and that from Szolnok to Debrecen in 1857 .
On November 10, 1856, the kk privileged Theiss Railway (Hungarian: Tiszavidéki vasút ) - a private railway company - was granted a 90-year concession for the construction and operation of this and other railway lines from the Austro-Hungarian government beginning on January 1st granted.
The railway line connected in the place Püspökladány on the line from Szolnok to Debrecen. 14 bridges had to be built for the construction. The line was opened on April 22, 1858.
The Theissbahn-Gesellschaft initially operated the line itself. After the Austro-Hungarian Compromise in 1867, part of the shares in the railway company were taken over by the Hungarian state; In 1880 it was completely nationalized and transferred to the state railway company MÁV .
After the end of the First World War , the eastern part of the route described here came to Romania and was taken over by the state railway company CFR . Since then there are border stations in Biharkeresztes and in Episcopia Bihor (district of Oradea ). From 1940 to 1944, as a result of the Second Vienna Arbitration Award , the entire route was once again on the territory of Hungary.
Todays situation
The line is not electrified and is single-track. Nevertheless, it is one of the most important links between Hungary and Romania. Several express and local trains run daily. The line is also important for freight traffic between Romania and the countries of Central and Western Europe. The modernization and electrification that had been planned for a long time have been postponed several times for financial reasons.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Adalbert Th. Michel: Oesterreichs Eisenbahnrecht. W. Braumüller, Vienna 1860, p. 9.
- ^ Julius Michaelis: Germany's railways. CF Amelang, Leipzig 1859, p. 358 .
- ^ Adam Wandruszka , Peter Urbanitsch (ed.): The Habsburg Monarchy 1848-1918. Volume 1: Alois Brusatti (Ed.): The economic development. Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1973, ISBN 3-7001-0030-2 , p. 296.
- ↑ CFR website from 2000, accessed on April 20, 2009 ( Memento from June 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive )