Tršnice – Františkovy Lázně railway line
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| Course book series (SŽDC) : | 148 (2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 4.089 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | D4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 25 kV 50 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 8.6 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 60 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Tršnice – Františkovy Lázně railway is a single-track, electrified branch line ("regionální dráha") and former main line ("celostátní dráha") in the Czech Republic , which was originally built and operated by the exclusively private Buschtěhrad Railway (BEB). It runs from Tršnice ( Tirschnitz ) to Františkovy Lázně ( Franzensbad ). The short connecting railway links the Chomutov – Cheb and Plauen – Cheb lines , bypassing the Cheb junction .
history
On June 3, 1868, the Buschtěhrad Railway received a legal permit to build a railway from Prague via Saaz and Kommotau to the royal Saxon border to connect to the Chemnitz-Annaberger Railway and with a winged railway into the Rakonitz coal district, then from Priesen via Karlsbad to Eger and Franzensbad . The Tirschnitz – Franzensbad railway was put into operation on December 9, 1871 at the same time as the main Prague – Komotau – Eger line.
In 1912 the timetable showed eight mixed pairs of 2nd and 3rd class trains, each of which had a connection to the trains to and from Prague. They needed eleven minutes for the five-kilometer route. There were no through trains between Prague and Franzensbad.
The BEB was nationalized on January 1, 1923 as one of the last large private railways in Bohemia. From then on, the line was integrated into the network of the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). At the beginning of the 1930s, the use of modern motor trains resulted in a significant compression of the timetable and a significant reduction in travel time to seven minutes. The winter timetable of 1937/38 recorded a total of 14 pairs of trains, all of which ran as motorized trains.
After the Sudetenland was annexed to Germany in autumn 1938, the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , Reichsbahndirektion Dresden . In the realm course book the connection was under the timetable route 422c Tirschnitz-Lazne included.
After the end of the Second World War , the entire line came back to the ČSD. From then on, only Czech station names were used. Because of the war damage to the Egerviaduct on the Plauen – Eger line, all train traffic between Eger (Cheb) and Franzensbad had to be handled via Tirschnitz. The 1949 timetable included direct train connections between Cheb and Aš , Cheb and Plesná, and between Prague and Františkovy Lázně. There were a total of 19 pairs of passenger trains. After the reconstruction of the Egerviadukt in 1951, the volume of traffic decreased again.
From 1959, the international pair of express trains D 147/148 “ Karlex ” (Berlin – Karlovy Vary – Praha) ran on the Tršnice – Františkovy Lázně line. These trains did not stop in Tršnice. Later the pair of express trains "Karola" (Leipzig – Karlovy Vary) and a pair of passenger trains Zwickau – Karlovy Vary were added. The passenger trains in domestic traffic ran from around 1970 on the Tršnice – Františkovy Lázně – Plesná route.
In the 1980s, the line was equipped with an electric contact line. Electric rail operations began on January 1, 1983.
In the 1990s the route lost its national importance. The international direct connections from Germany to Karlovy Vary were discontinued due to a lack of demand. The introduction of direct train routes Zwickau – Františkovy Lázně – Cheb– Marktredwitz by the Vogtland Railway from May 28, 2000 finally led to a further loss of importance. In the 2012 annual timetable, there was only one passenger train on the Cheb – Aš město route, which used the Tršnice – Františkovy Lázně route on Saturdays and Sundays. Since then, the route has only been used by freight trains. Travelers have to take the detour via Cheb.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007 , 2nd edition; Publishing house Pavel Malkus, Praha, 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1 ; P. 15
- ↑ Prohlášení o dráze 2017
- ↑ Law of June 3, 1898 regarding the concessions and conditions for the operation of the railway from Prague via Saaz and Komotau to the royal Saxon border to the connection to the Chemnitz-Annaberger Bahn and with a wing track into the Rakonitz coal area, then from Priesen Carlsbad to Eger and Franzensbad
- ↑ 1912 timetable of the kkStB - valid from May 1, 1912
- ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1937/38 - valid from October 3, 1937
- ↑ ČSD summer timetable 1949
- ↑ ČSD winter timetable 1959/60
- ↑ Annual timetable 2012 (accessed on October 28, 2012; PDF; 155 kB)