Emperor Franz Joseph Railway
The kk privileged Kaiser Franz Josephs-Bahn , in short: KFJB was a railway company in Austria whose route network was in the crown lands of Lower Austria and Bohemia . The main connection of the company ran from Vienna via Gmünd and Pilsen to Eger . A branch line from Gmünd also provided a direct connection from Vienna to Prague .
The company was named after Emperor Franz Joseph .
history
The initiator of the railway line was the landowner and diplomat Johann Adolf II. Prince zu Schwarzenberg , who wanted to transport coal from the Pilsen Basin to Vienna. The groundbreaking of the 455 km long railway line between Vienna and Eger took place on November 18, 1866 near the Meierhof Wondrow near Schloss Frauenberg . The estimated construction costs of 81,576,600 guilders were raised through a stock corporation. 143,000 workers were employed in the construction.
The first section between Pilsen and Budweis was opened on September 1, 1868, on November 1, 1869 the Budweis – Eggenburg section was completed and on June 23, 1870 the line from there to Vienna was put into operation. (Previously, from March 15, 1870, there had already been trains running on the Vienna Northern Railway and via Stockerau .) On December 14, 1871, the connection from Čerčan to Prague was opened, which enabled traffic from Vienna to Prague via Gmünd. In 1872 the continuous rail route to Eger and thus the connection of the Bohemian spa triangle to the capital Vienna was reached. The route network of the two main routes thus covered 715 km.
On May 1, 1884, the company was nationalized. The vehicles and routes were taken over by the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB).
stretch
- Budweis – Pilsen (September 1, 1868)
- Eggenburg − Gmünd - Budweis (November 1, 1869)
- Vienna – Eggenburg (June 23, 1870)
- Gmünd – Wesseli on the Lainsitz – Tábor – Benešov – Prague (1871)
- Pilsen – Eger (January 28, 1872)
- Prague connecting railway : junction Hrabovka – Prague Franz Josephs-Bahnhof – Prague-Smichow (August 15, 1872)
- Absdorf – Krems (January 10, 1872)
- Budweis – Wesseli an der Lainsitz (June 8, 1874)
Locomotives
| Locomotives of the kk priv. Kaiser Franz Josephs-Bahn | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KFJB no. | number | Manufacturer | Construction year | Axis formula | kkStB no. | Whereabouts | |
| 1-32 | 32 | Sigl , Wiener Neustadt | 1868-1872 | 1Bn2 | 24.01-32 | ČSD 233.0 (ex 24.06, 12, 17) | |
| 33-50, 151-154 | 22nd | Sigl , Floridsdorf | 1873 | 1Bn2 | January 26-22 | ČSD 233.1 (ex 26.06, 10, 16, 19, 20) | |
| 51-106 | 56 | Sigl | 1868-1871 | Cn2 | 35.01-56 | ČSD 312.301–313, FS 195, JDŽ, BBÖ | |
| 131-140 | 10 | Floridsdorf | 1883/84 | Dn2 | 72.01-10 | ČSD 403.001-010 | |
| 201-213 | 13 | Wiener Neustadt | 1897 | 2'Bn2 | 104.01-13 4.201-213 |
ČSD 254.2 (ex 4.206, 213), PKP Od13, FS 543, JDŽ, CFR, BBÖ | |
See also
- Karl Adalbert Lanna , his favorite project
literature
- Siegfried Bufe, Heribert Schröpfer: Railways in the Sudetenland . Bufe-Fachbuchverlag, Egglham 1991, ISBN 3-922138-42-X .
- Johann Stockklausner: Steam company in old Austria . Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-900134-41-3 .
- Alfred Wolf: The Franz-Josefs-Bahn and its branch lines. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2006, ISBN 978-3-86680-041-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timetable advertisement. In: Wiener Zeitung , March 15, 1870, p. 16 (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Announcement in the Official Gazette. In: Wiener Zeitung , November 3, 1869, p. 17 (online at ANNO ).