Střelice – Okříšky railway line

Střelice – Okříšky
Course book series (SŽDC) :	240
Route length:	61.846 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C4
Maximum slope :	25  ‰
Minimum radius :	225 m
Top speed:	90 km / h
Legend from Brno (formerly BRE ) 0.000 Střelice formerly Střelitz to Vienna Südbahnhof (formerly StEG ) 3.094 Omice 6.475 Tetčice formerly Tetschitz 8.395 Rosice u Brna formerly Rossitz-Pendorf from Zbýšov 10,877 Zastávka u Brna used to be God's blessing 16.145 Vysoké Popovice 18,882 Rapotice formerly Rapotitz Chvojnice 23.651 Kralice nad Oslavou formerly Kralitz Oslava 29,530 Náměšť nad Oslavou formerly Namiest ad Oslawa Náměšť military airfield 35,806 Studenec formerly Studenetz to Křižanov (formerly StEG ) 42.751 Vladislav zastávka 43,953 Vladislav formerly Vladislav Jihlava 50.083 Třebíč formerly Trebitsch Libušino údolí 52.448 Třebíč- Borovina formerly Řipov 55,467 Krahulov formerly Kralohof from (Vienna–) Znojmo (formerly ÖNWB ) 61.846 Okříšky formerly Okříschko to Kolín (formerly ÖNWB )

The Střelice – Okříšky railway is a main line ("celostátní dráha") in the Czech Republic . It runs from Střelice ( Střelitz ) via Zastávka ( God's blessing ) to Okříšky ( Okříschko ). The Střelice – Zastávka section was originally built and operated as a coal railway by the Brno-Rossitz Railway (BRE) . The further route was opened by the privately owned Austrian-Hungarian State Railway Company (StEG) in 1886 as part of the Bohemian-Moravian Transversal Railway . During the time of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia , the route was part of the only long-distance connection between Prague and Brno that ran entirely on Czech territory.

history

The concession for the Brno-Rossitz railway was granted on January 15, 1854. Above all, the concessionaires were the owners of the coal mines in the Rossitz district. The company M. Fröhlich & A. Stein took over the construction of the line. On January 2, 1856, the line was provisionally opened for freight traffic. The official commissioning ceremony took place on June 30, 1856, and regular passenger traffic began one day later.

Střelice railway station (2009)

Třebíč Railway Station (2009)

The concession for the "Secondary Railway" Segen Gottes – Okříschko was awarded to StEG together with the Studenetz – Gross Meseritsch line on December 28, 1882. Part of the concession was the obligation to complete the licensed railway by September 1, 1885 and to “ open the road to public operations to be handed over ". The duration of the concession was set until December 31, 1965. The line was opened on June 3, 1886. The StEG carried out the operation itself.

On January 1st, 1908, the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) took over the management. With the nationalization of the StEG on October 15, 1909, the infrastructure came to the kkStB. In 1912 the timetable indicated four pairs of trains, 2nd and 3rd class. They needed a little over 2.5 hours for the 76-kilometer route between Brno and Okříschko. After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in October 1918, the route was transferred to the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD).

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.

On January 1, 1993, the line was transferred to the newly founded České dráhy (ČD) in the course of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia . Since 2003 it has been part of the network of the state infrastructure operator Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC).

In the 2013 annual timetable, the route is served alternately every two hours by the express trains on the R4 Brno – Plzeň line and the passenger trains on the S4 Brno – Jihlava line. Between Brno and Náměšť nad Oslavou, the timetable is partially compressed to an hourly cycle.

The line is to be electrified in the next few years. The original plan envisaged electrification in two stages:

• Brno - Rapotice (April 2010 to December 2012)
• Rapotice– Jihlava (without appointment)

On October 11, 2019, the route operator SŽDC publicly tendered the electrification and modernization of the route between Střelice and Zastávka u Brna as part of the route expansion project Brno – Zastávka u Brna. In addition to the electrification with 25 kV 25 Hz alternating voltage, an increase in the maximum speed to 120 km / h and the equipment with the European train control system ETCS are planned . The budget is about 1.8 billion crowns. Construction work is scheduled to begin in 2020 and be completed by 2022.

Web links

Commons : Railway line 240 (Czech Republic)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Route 240 Brno – Jihlava on www.zelpage.cz

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. ↑ Artaria railway map of Austria-Hungary and the Balkans, with Station Directory; Artaria & Co., Vienna 1913
3. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe - Issued on February 10, 1883
4. ↑ 1912 timetable of the kkStB - valid from May 1, 1912
5. ↑ Current timetable ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on December 17, 2012; PDF file; 737 kB)  
6. ↑ SŽDC tender
7. ↑ "Konečně: Stát vypsal tendr na elektrizaci torte z Brna do Střelic" on zdopravy.cz