Dux-Bodenbacher Railway Company
The kk privileged Dux-Bodenbacher Eisenbahn (Czech: Duchcovsko-podmokelská dráha ) was a railway company in Austria whose routes were in what is now the Czech Republic . The company's routes connected the North Bohemian Elbe port in Bodenbach with the lignite mines around Dux , Brüx and Komotau .
history
On July 9, 1869, the Dux-Bodenbacher Bahn was allowed to build a railway line from Bodenbach to Dux with a branch line to Komotau. On May 20, 1871, the Bodenbach – Ossegg –Dux line was opened. On December 19, 1872, the Osseg – Komotau extension was put into operation.
From the outset, the lines were intended to compete with the parallel Aussig-Teplitz Railway (ATE), to which there was no direct track connection at any point. The importance of the routes lay primarily in the removal of the lignite mined in the North Bohemian Basin to the Elbe port in Bodenbach. Transfer stations to foreign railway companies existed in Bodenbach to the priv. Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company (StEG), in Wiesa - Oberleutensdorf and Ladowitz to the kk priv. Prag-Duxer Eisenbahn (PDE) and in Komotau to the kk priv. Buschtěhrader Eisenbahn (BEB).
In 1871 the company acquired the lignite works of Count Waldstein near Dux.
As a first step towards nationalization, the management of the Dux-Bodenbacher Bahn lines was transferred to the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) from July 1, 1884 . On January 1, 1892, the Dux-Bodenbacher Bahn lines were finally taken over by the kkStB.
The company was not dissolved after the nationalization of its railway lines, but remained under its old name as a mining company. The former railway company later traded under the name of Dux-Bodenbacher Eisenbahn AG . In 1942, the Dux-Bodenbacher Eisenbahn AG operated the lignite works Adolfschacht and Sofieschacht in Buckwa as well as Union II and Konkordia underground and opencast mining in Neusattl .
With the emergence of area electrification after the First World War, the company also invested in electrical power generation. The Dux-Bodenbacher Eisenbahn AG also owned an overland plant in Neusattl.
After the Second World War , the company was liquidated on March 7, 1946 by decree no. 823 of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Industry. The company's assets will be transferred to the new state-owned mining company Falknovské hnědouhelné doly .
The routes
- Bodenbach – Komotau (* 1871/1872)
- Ossegg – Ladowitz (* 1871/1879)
The locomotives
| Locomotives of the Dux-Bodenbacher Railway | ||||||||
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| DBE no. | number | Manufacturer | Construction year | Axis formula | kkStB no. | ČSD no. | photo | |
| 1-8 | 8th | Kochlin | 1871 | C-n2 | 45.01-08 | 312.601-602 | - | |
| 9-34 | 26th | Sigl / Wr. Neustadt , Sigl / Vienna , Wiener Neustadt , StEG | 1872-1882 | C-n2 | 53.01-26 | 314.001-020 |
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