Trmice – Bílina railway line

Trmice – Bílina
Course book series (SŽDC) :	131
Route length:	25.823 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4 (2020)
Power system :	3 kV  =
Maximum slope :	10.6  ‰
Minimum radius :	240 m
Top speed:	60 km / h
Dual track :	Trmice – Bílina
Legend from Ústí nad Labem (formerly ATE ) Ústí nad Labem západ St. 5 after Chomutov (from 1982) Autobahn D 8 0.396 Trmice formerly Türmitz 160 m after Chomutov (formerly ATE ; until 1982) 2.500 Koštov earlier costs (b Aussig) 160 m Autobahn D 8 Autobahn D 8 Bílina 5.300 Stadice formerly Staditz 160 m Expressway R 63 6.653 Řehlovice formerly Groß Tschochau 160 m 8.200 Brozánky used to be Prosanken 165 m 10.100 Rtyně nad Bílinou formerly Hertine 170 m 11.600 Velvěty formerly Welboth 175 m Bílina from Teplice (formerly ATE ) 13,498 Úpořiny formerly Auperschin 180 m to Lovosice – Liberec (formerly ATE ) Bílina 15.100 Lbín formerly Welbine 185 m Bílina 16.209 Lysec formerly Ließnitz Dolanky earlier Dolanken 18.648 Ohníč zastávka formerly Wohontsch Hst 18,952 Ohníč formerly Wohontsch 195 m Křemýž formerly Kremusch 195 m Bílina 21.400 Hostomice nad Bílinou formerly Hostomitz (b Bilin) 195 m Bílina by Duchcov 22.600 Světec formerly Schwatz-Kuttowitz 195 m 23.800 Bílina- Chudeřice formerly Kutterschitz 200 m European route 442 from Ústí nad Labem 26,219 Bílina formerly Bilin 205 m after Chomutov

The Trmice – Bílina (formerly Bielatalbahn ) railway is a double-track, electrified main line ("celostátní dráha") in the Czech Republic , which was originally built and operated by the kk priv. Aussig-Teplitz Railway (ATE). It runs in the valley of the Bilina ( Biela ) from Trmice ( Türmitz ) to Bílina ( Bilin ).

history

Already on June 25, 1870, the Johann Liebig & Comp. received the concession for a railway " from Bilin through the Biela = Thal to Aussig ". However, construction did not begin.

On the part of the Aussig-Teplitz Railway, they feared the new competition, as the new line should run largely parallel to its own main line. The ATE shareholders' meeting decided on September 20, 1871 to purchase the granted concession in order to be able to build the line on their own. The negotiations with the Johann Liebig & Comp company led to success a little later. On January 21, 1872, the license was transferred to the Aussig-Teplitz Railway by law. The completion of the line “ at the latest at the same time as the line of the Austrian Northwest Railway in Aussig ” was required by law . In contrast to the original project, the line should now flow into the existing ATE line in Türmitz.

The Prague company Schön & Wessely took over the construction of the 26.1 km long route . The new connection was opened on June 6, 1874, six months after the completion of the Nimburg – Schreckenstein – Aussig line of the Austrian Northwest Railway.

Stadice stop (2013)

At the turn of the century, the double-track expansion of the line began due to the sharp increase in traffic. From 1900, the Auperschin – Kuttowitz-Schwaz section was operated on two tracks.

With the nationalization of ATE on January 1, 1924, the line was transferred to the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD).

After the Sudetenland was annexed to Germany in autumn 1938, the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , Reichsbahndirektion Dresden . The connection was now included in the Reich curriculum as KBS 167e Aussig – Bilin Sauerbrunn. After the end of the Second World War , the line came back to the ČSD.

In the 1960s, the line as part of the main Czechoslovak traffic axis Košice - Chomutov was expanded to double-track and electrified. At the same time, the line in Bílina was integrated into the route from Ústí nad Labem – Chomutov , which was newly laid because of the lignite mining . On March 18, 1968, the new route between Bílina Chudeřice and Bílina went into operation.

The following table shows the opening dates of the electric train operation:

opening	route
May 24, 1967	Trmice – Řehlovice
October 27, 1967	Řehlovice – Ohníč
December 28, 1967	Ohníč – Bílina Chudeřice
March 18, 1968	Bílina-Chudeřice – Bílina

In the following years, freight traffic on the route increased enormously. On May 30, 1976, passenger traffic was switched to a rail replacement service. The route was still included in the ČSD timetable as route 131 Obrnice – Úpořiny – Ústí nad Labem. Only after the Velvet Revolution was passenger train traffic resumed on May 26, 1991.

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).

The 2012 timetable provided for a total of ten daily pairs of passenger trains on weekdays, which (apart from the first two pairs of trains) run every two hours. The route is still of unchanged importance for freight traffic.

Web links

Commons : Trmice – Bílina railway line  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ústí nad Labem – Úpořiny – Bílina 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. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe 98/1870 of August 9, 1870
3. ↑ Memorandum on the occasion of the 50th year of operation of the kk priv. Aussig-Teplitz railway company 1908; P. 8
4. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe 7/1872 of February 24, 1872
5. ^ German course book - annual timetable 1944/45
6. ↑ ČSD timetable 1988/89
7. ↑ Current timetable ( Memento of October 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 131 kB)