Zásmuky – Bečváry railway line
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| Course book series (SŽDC) : | 013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 3.930 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 60 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Zásmuky – Bečváry railway is a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic , which was originally built and operated by the privileged Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company (StEG) as a state-guaranteed local railway . It starts in Zásmuky and leads to Bečváry .
According to a decree of the Czech government, the line has been classified as a regional railway ("regionální dráha") since December 20, 1995.
history
The concession for a " local train from the Zásmuk terminus of the social line Peček – Zásmuk to Groß-Bečvár with a siding to the sugar factory in Bečvár " was awarded to the StEG on November 5, 1886. The law stipulated that the new line with the existing local train Peček – Zásmuk with branches “is to be regarded as one line from an administrative and technical point of view. “A construction period of one year from the granting of the license was planned. The Austrian state reserved the right to redeem the railway for compensation at any time. The license was issued until December 31, 1965.
The StEG opened the line on August 1, 1887. It ran the line itself. In the first few years the route was only used for freight traffic. The main customer was the sugar factory in Bečváry, which had a siding (which still exists today) shortly before the end of the line in Bečváry. When the connecting line of the local line Kolin – Čerčan – Kácow was opened, passenger traffic began on August 6, 1901.
After the nationalization of the StEG on October 15, 1909, the line became the property of the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB). As a result of the First World War lost by Austria , the line then belonged to the network of the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD) from 1918 . The first timetable of the ČSD from 1919 showed only one pair of passenger trains, which was connected to and from Pečky.
At the end of the 1980s, the timetable of the local railway had the heaviest train traffic in its history: The annual timetable for 1988/89 recorded a total of 7 pairs of trains between Zásmuky and Bečváry.
After the velvet revolution in Czechoslovakia in 1989, the volume of travel and freight traffic gradually declined. Faster bus routes and increasing individual transport pulled travelers away. On January 1, 1993, the line was transferred to the newly founded České dráhy (ČD) in the course of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. From 2004, only a single pair of passenger trains ran on the route. On December 10, 2006, this unprofitable alibi traffic was finally stopped completely.
Today there is a tourist train service on the route called “Podlipanský motoráček” on weekends in the summer half-year. Two pairs of trains run on the Pečky – Kouřim – Zásmuky – Bečváry route. Historical railcars from the private railway company KŽC Doprava are used .
Today goods traffic is only handled for a coal trader in Bečváry. The connecting railway of the former sugar factory in Bečváry is no longer served.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007 , 2nd edition; Pavel Malkus Publishing House, Prague 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1
- ↑ Decree of the Czech government of December 20, 1995
- ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe from November 5, 1886
- ↑ Timetable 1988/89
