Rokytňany – Dobrovice město railway line

Rokytňany – Dobrovice město
Course book range :	6b (1960)
Route length:	14.058 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend von Kopidlno (formerly BCB ) 0.000 Rokytňany to Bakov nad Jizerou (formerly BCB ) 4.184 Ujkovice 9.178 Žerčice 11.284 Semčice 14.058 Dobrovice město formerly Taxis-Dobrovice vlečka cukrovár Dobrovice to Dobrovice (formerly Fürst Thurn-Taxis'sche Schleppbahn)

The railway line Rokytňany – Dobrovice město was a railway connection in the Czech Republic , which was originally built and operated by the kk priv. Bohemian Commercial Railways (BCB) as the local line Dětenic – Dobrowitz. It ran in Central Bohemia from Rokytňany to Dobrovice .

history

The concession for the local railway Dětenic – Dobrowitz was given to the founders of BCB, the building contractors Johann Muzika and Karl Schnabel on May 17, 1882 together with the Liban – Bakow and Krupa – Kolleschowitz lines . Part of the concession was the obligation to "complete the routes within a year ... and hand them over to public transport ". The concession was issued until May 17, 1972. The line was opened on July 1, 1882 only for freight traffic. BCB carried out the operation itself. Passenger traffic began in 1903.

The most important freight customer at the end of the route was the sugar factory founded in 1831 by the Princes of Thurn and Taxis , which had its own siding.

IIIKc FÜRSTENFELDBRUCK with a mixed train in Taxis-Dobrovice (around 1900)

Dobrovice sugar factory (2008)

After the nationalization of the BCB in 1909, the line came to the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB). In 1912 the timetable of the local railway showed two mixed pairs of 2nd and 3rd class trains that were connected to and from Kopidlno. They needed a little more than an hour for the Dětenice – Dobrovice route.

After the First World War , which Austria-Hungary lost , the line became the property of the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). From the mid-1930s one of the pairs of trains was run as a motor train , which covered the Dětenice – Dobrovice route in 35 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.

In the last timetable from 1969/70 only one pair of trains was recorded. On May 30, 1970, tourist traffic on the route was stopped. On December 31, 1973, the remaining freight traffic also ended.

literature

• Miroslav Jelen: Zrušené železniční tratě v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku , Dokořán 2009, ISBN 978-80-7363-129-1 ; Pp. 55-57

Web links

Commons : Former railway line Dětenice - Dobrovice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Description (Czech)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas drah České republiky 2006-2007 , 2nd edition; Publishing house Pavel Malkus, Praha, 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1
2. ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe - sent on June 13, 1882
3. ^ 1912 timetable of the kkStB - valid from May 1, 1912
4. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1937/38 - valid from October 3, 1937
5. ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1969/70