Počkaj – Baňa Lucia railway line
| Počkaj – Baňa Lucia | |||||||||||||||||
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| Course book range : | 41r (1969) | ||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 2.96 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
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The Počkaj – Baňa Lucia railway was a regional railway connection in Slovakia . It branched off in Počkaj from the Moldava nad Bodvou – Medzev railway and led in the Borzov Valley to Baňa Lucia , a district of the municipality of Vyšný Medzev ( Obermetzenseifen ). It served in particular to connect the local iron ore mine. The line was closed in 1973 as a result of its closure.
history
The line was licensed by the Hungarian Ministry of Commerce on August 26, 1893 as part of the Kassa-Tornai helyi érdekú vasut (local railway Kaschau – Torna; Slovak: Miestna železnica Košice – Turňa ). On August 1, 1894, it was opened together with the Moldava nad Bodvou – Medzev railway. The route initially only served freight traffic. In Baňa Lucia, the ore was loaded directly from the mine railway with gravity via chutes into the standard-gauge wagons. The ore was then sent to Ózd for smelting via the local railway .
From 1901 there was also travel, in which the freight trains were provided with a 3rd class passenger car. However, the volume of freight traffic was so low in the period that followed that the trains often consisted of only the poorly used passenger cars. In 1909, travel was stopped again for economic reasons.
After the break-up of Austria-Hungary in October 1918 and the establishment of the new state of Czechoslovakia , the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD) took over the management on behalf of the owners.
After the Second World War, the local railway company was nationalized and the line was integrated into the ČSD network. The ČSD operated the route again with passenger trains from 1946 onwards, as some passenger trains on the Moldava nad Bodvou – Medzev route ran the short junction to Baňa Lucia in wagon trains. In 1950 there were two pairs of trains from Moldava nad Bodvou via Baňa Lucia to Medzev, four in 1959 and three in 1969. The travel time for the three-kilometer route was eight minutes in 1969. The trains were used in particular for school transport to and from Medzev.
After the mine was closed in 1969, passenger traffic was also given up and the line officially closed on July 1, 1973. The tracks were demolished in the mid-1990s.