Zvoleněves – Vinařice railway line
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Zvoleněves – Vinařice railway was a railway connection in the Czech Republic that was originally built and operated as a local railway by the Zwolenowes – Smečna Railway . It joined in Zvoleněves on the railway line Kralupy nad Vltavou předměstí - Podlešín and led in the valley of the Knovízky potok to Vinařice . The line was shut down in 1982 and dismantled a little later.
history
The concession "to build and operate a standard-gauge local railway from Swolenowes to Smečna" was awarded to the Viennese lawyer Dr. Philipp Neumann. Part of the concession was the obligation to start construction of the line immediately and to finish it within two years. The duration of the concession was set at 90 years. At the request of the state administration, a branch was also to be made to connect to the kk priv. Prague-Duxer railway .
The Zwolenowes-Smečnaer Eisenbahn-Actiengesellschaft was founded in 1886 with its seat in Vienna. The share capital totaled 1,000,000 guilders in 5,000 ordinary shares of 200 guilders each. After all the shares had been bought up, it was later wholly owned by the privately owned Austro-Hungarian State Railroad Company (StEG).
The local railway was opened on June 1, 1886. The StEG carried out the operation for its subsidiary itself. Operationally, the line from then on formed a unit with the local railway Kralup – Swolenowes of the StEG. The 1900 timetable showed three mixed pairs of trains between Kralup and Střebichowitz-Vinařitz. The trains needed about an hour and a half for this route. In freight transport, the dispatch of coal from the surrounding pits was particularly important. In addition, sugar beets were transported to the sugar factory in Zvoleněves during the campaign .
After the nationalization of the StEG on October 15, 1909, the Zwolenowes-Smečnaer Eisenbahn-Actiengesellschaft came into the possession of the Austrian state. From then on, the line belonged to the operating network of the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB). After the nationalization, the previously missing connection from Střebichowitz-Vinařitz to Tuhaň to the towing railway of the Prague Iron Industry Company and thus to the network of the Buschtěhrad Railway (BEB) was created.
After the First World War, the line came to the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD).
The continuous passenger train service from Kralupy to Kladno-Dubí was started on December 3, 1945 after the Second World War.
After the shutdown of coal production in the railway area and the cessation of sugar beet transport in 1970, the line was in constant decline. In the 1970s it was only used for rush hour traffic to the coal pits near Kladno, the travel times of the remaining four pairs of trains were geared towards the shift changes there. The missing superstructure necessitated the establishment of sections of slow-speed driving, which at last could only be driven at 10 km / h. In the 1975/76 timetable, the trains needed almost an hour for the 16 kilometers from Zvoleněves to Kladno-Dubí.
On May 28, 1982 the last passenger trains ran between Zvoleněves and Kladno-Dubí. The Zvoleněves – Vinařice line was closed and dismantled until 1989. A cycle path now runs along part of the route .
From 1989 the Vinařice station was used as a training area for the railway troops of the Czechoslovak Army . Today the company Stavební obnova Železnic uses the site. The company renovated the former reception building and built two new halls.
literature
- Miroslav Jelen: Zrušené železniční tratě v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Dokořán 2009, ISBN 978-80-7363-129-1 , pp. 81–83.
- Alfred Horn: Railway picture album 16 - The imperial and royal privileged Austro-Hungarian state railway company. Bohmann Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-99015-020-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Zdeněk Hudec et al: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007. 2nd Edition. Pavel Malkus Publishing House, Prague 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1 .
- ^ Concessions deed of June 2, 1883
- ↑ ZWOLENOVES-SMECNAER EISENBAHN ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Timetable 1900.
- ↑ History železničních tratí ČR 1970-1989 ( Memento from February 19, 2005 in the Internet Archive )