Railway line Praha-Braník – Praha-Podolí cementárna

Praha-Braník – Praha-Podolí cementárna

Section of the Prague-Braník – Praha-Podolí cementárna railway line

Route length:

3.7 km

		from Praha-Modřany
	0.0	Praha- Braník
		to Praha-Vršovice
		Praha-Braník přístav
	3.7	Praha- Podolí cementárna

The railway line Praha-Braník – Praha-Podolí cementárna was a railway connection in today's Czech Republic . It ran in the Prague urban area along the Vltava from Braník to the cement factory in Podolí ( Podol ). After the first Minister of Transport of the First Republic, Izidor Zahradník , it was popularly called "Izidorka" .

history

The line was put into operation in 1898 as a connecting railway ("Schleppbahn") of the cement factory in Podol. In particular, it also connected the limestone quarries in Braník with the cement factory and replaced a field railway for internal transport .

The indoor swimming pool in Podolí is located on the site of the former cement factory, with the limestone quarry behind it

After the First World War , passenger trains also ran on the industrial line. The Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD) set up the stops in Praha-Braník přístav and Praha-Podolí cementárna and carried out excursions in the summer months from 1919 to 1922. In Praha-Braník there was a connection to the trains on the Prague – Čerčany (“Posázavský pacifik”) line. With the commissioning of the tram line to Braník station in 1922, this tourist traffic ended again.

With the closure of the cement factory in 1953, the line was closed and dismantled.

Today there are no more traces of the former railway line. Today a four-lane main road runs along the Vltava. The area of the former cement factory is now occupied by a swimming pool ("plavecký areál"). The tram route established in 1922 was given its own track structure in the early 1990s, independent of individual traffic.

literature

Miroslav Jelen: Zrušené železniční tratě v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku , Dokořán 2009, ISBN 978-80-7363-129-1
Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007 , 2nd edition; Publishing house Pavel Malkus, Praha, 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1