Lviv – Bełżec Railway (Tomaszów)

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The Lemberg – Bełżec (Tomaszów) railway was a state-guaranteed local railway company in northern Galicia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire .

history

It was planned in several attempts by the Lemberg-Chernivtsi-Jassy Railway since 1869 , the final concession was obtained on January 8, 1886, the route should lead from Lemberg via Żółkiew to Rawa Ruska and continue via Bełżec to the imperial border towards Tomaszów . The concession, which ended on January 8, 1976, also included the right to found a new joint-stock company, which was also constituted on May 15, 1886 under the name of the Lemberg-Bełzec (Tomaszów) Railway in Lemberg, with which the Lemberg-Chernivtsi-Jassy Railway was established on June 23, 1886 an operating contract for a period of 20 years was agreed.

The railway itself was opened after a year of construction on October 23, 1887, the length of the single-track line was 88.42 kilometers. 12 stations and 3 stops were built.

In 1888 the plan for a steam tramway in Lemberg came up, the concession was granted on December 12, 1888, but due to the unpromising financial prospects it was put back in 1893.

On July 1, 1889, the management of the railway as well as the main line of the Lemberg-Chernivtsi-Jassy railway was taken over by the kk state railways (kkStB) against payment of cost, which set up a railway operations office in Żółkiew. On January 1, 1909, the type of payment was changed to a fixed lease pension.

After the end of the First World War , the company's routes were on the territory of Poland. Operational management was transferred from the kkStB to the newly founded Polish State Railways (PKP). On February 4, 1932, the company was nationalized. The section of the line to Rawa-Ruska, which was on Soviet territory from 1945, was re-gauged to 1520 mm and placed under the Soviet railways.

The route still exists. Today it belongs as the Lviv – Hrebenne line to the network of the Ukrainian state railway Ukrsalisnyzja and as the Hrebenne – Rejowiec line to the Polish Railways.

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  1. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of 1886, No. 20, page 90
  2. ↑ Reichsgesetzblatt of 1888, No. 7, page 5
  3. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt of 1893, No. 67, page 147

See also

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literature

  • EA number: The local railways in Galicia and Bukovina . tape 1 . Spielhagen & Schurich publishing bookstore, Vienna 1891.
  • EA number: The local railways in Galicia and Bukovina . tape 2 . Lehmann & Wentzel publishing bookstore, Vienna 1908.
  • Bernhard Neuner: Bibliography of the Austrian Railways from the Beginnings to 1918 . tape 2 . Walter Drews Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901949-00-3 .