Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn
| kk privileged Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn (KRB) |
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|---|---|
| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | July 20, 1867 |
| resolution | December 13, 1887 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| Branch | Railway construction and operation |
The kk privileged Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn (KRB) was an Austrian railway company founded in 1866 with headquarters in Vienna, whose routes were in Lower and Upper Austria , in Carinthia , Styria and Carniola . Today part of the route network is in Slovenia and Italy .
The railway company was named after Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and Hungary .
history
The concession for the locomotive railway “following the Empress Elisabeth-Westbahn from St. Valentin via Steyr, Hieflau, Rottenmann, St. Michael, Judenburg, Friesach, Launsdorf and St. Veit to Villach, with the wing railways from Kleinreifling to Amstetten, from Launsdorf to Mösel and from St. Veit to Klagenfurt ”received on November 11, 1866 Messrs. Joseph Fürst Colloredo-Mannsfeld , Constantin Graf Lodron, Carl Graf Gleispach, Franz Freiherr von Kalchberg, Adolph Ritter von Tschabuschnigg and Georg Ritter von Aichinger . At the request of the state administration, the concessionaires were also obliged to lay further routes from St. Valentin to the projected route Prague – Gmünd , from Villach to Trieste and to the imperial border towards Udine.
The lines were initially allowed to be laid out on a single track, although a later double-track expansion had to be taken into account for all bridges and tunnels. Only when the gross yield of 150,000 guilders per mile was exceeded for two consecutive years was the state administration allowed to demand the construction of a second track. The return on investment capital was guaranteed at five percent annually for the entire concession period of 90 years. After 30 years, the state reserved the right to redeem it at any time.
On July 20, 1867, the privileged Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn was founded as a stock corporation. The use of the name Kronprinz Rudolf-Bahn had already been permitted on July 11, 1865.
The St. Valentin – Steyr and Leoben – St. Michael – Villach were built in 1868, the Steyr – Weyer, Rottenmann – St. Michael, St. Veit – Klagenfurt and Launsdorf – Mösel opened in 1869.
On February 23, 1869, the Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn also received the concession for the Ljubljana – Tarvisio line and on April 24, 1871 for the continuation to Villach and on July 16, 1871 for the line from Hieflau to Eisenerz.
In 1872 the Weyer – Rottenmann lines, which connected the previously separate St. Valentin – Weyer and Rottenmann – Villach lines, and the Kleinreifling – Amstetten wing railway to connect with the Kaiserin Elisabeth railway were opened. This means that all lines for which the Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn had received the concession in 1866 were put into operation. The routes to Gmünd and Trieste, however, were not implemented. The north-south traffic from Prague was routed via the St. Valentin – Budweis railway line of the Empress Elisabeth Railway , the connection to Trieste was also provided from Ljubljana via the network of the Southern Railway Company . The line to the imperial border towards Udine ( Pontafelbahn ) was finally built by the Austrian state under its own direction and opened in 1879. The Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn took over the operation there on account of the state.
On May 27, 1875, the Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn received the concession for the Salzkammergut Railway , with which the company was connected to the Bavarian network near Passau. The route was opened in 1877.
The traffic performance and thus the profitability of the routes remained far below expectations. The total net income in the years 1868 to 1879 was only about 13 million crowns . On the other hand, there were 114 million crowns that had been paid to the company in guarantee advances.
On December 11, 1883, the government concluded an agreement with the Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn to take over the management and redemption of the railway by the state, which was approved by law of April 8, 1884. Thereafter, the operation was run retrospectively from January 1, 1884 for the entire remaining concession period by the state on its behalf.
On December 13, 1887, the company went into liquidation. After the company shares had been exchanged for railway government bonds, the nationalization was completed at the end of 1889. At the time of nationalization, the operating length of the lines of the Crown Prince Rudolf Railway was 821.6 kilometers, the social capital 277.4 million crowns, the investment capital 280.7 million crowns.
stretch
- Own routes
- Amstetten – St. Valentin-Tarvis- Laibach
- Amstetten – Kleinreifling
- St. Michael-Leoben
- Hieflau – Eisenerz
- St. Veit an der Glan – Klagenfurt
- Launsdorf – Mösel
- Stainach-Irdning-Schärding
- Holzleithen – Thomasroith (Holzleithen branch line)
- Operated on account of the owner
- kk state railway Tarvisio-Pontafel
- Zeltweg – Fohnsdorf (for the Styrian Iron Industry Society )
- Mösel – Hüttenberg
Locomotives
The Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn assigned odd numbers for passenger locomotives and even numbers for freight locomotives. The exception was the HARTIG tank locomotive , which had no number. The following table contains an overview of the locomotives that have been procured:
| Locomotives of the Crown Prince Rudolf Bahn | ||||||||||
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| series | Numbers | image | number | Manufacturer | Years of construction | design type | kkStB no. (1884) |
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| I. | 31-47 49-55 |
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13 |
Mödling Krauss / Munich |
1870 1873 |
1B n2 |
22.01-04 22.11-19 |
Passenger locomotive | ||
| I. | 57-71 |  |
8th | Wiener Neustadt | 1877 | 2'B n2 | 1.01-08 | Passenger locomotive | ||
| II | 1-29 |  |
15th | Sigl / Vienna | 1868-1869 | C n2 | 29.01-15 | Passenger locomotive | ||
| III | 2-74 98-108 |
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43 |
Sigl / Vienna , Wiener Neustadt , Maffei Mödling |
1868-1872 1873 |
C n2 | 34.01-43 | Freight locomotive | ||
| III | 76-90 |  |
8th | Krauss / Munich | 1872 | C n2t | 62.01-08 | Passenger train tank locomotive | ||
| III | 110-128 | 10 | Winterthur | 1874 | C n2t | 63.01-10 | Passenger train tank locomotive | |||
| IV | 92-96 |  |
3 | Floridsdorf | 1873 | C n2 | 50.26-28 | Freight locomotive | ||
| IV | 130-142 |  |
7th | Floridsdorf | 1873 | C n2 | 54.41-47 | Freight locomotive | ||
| - | HARD |  |
1 | Wöhlert | 1871 | B n2t | 85.00 | from Vordernberger Erzverein , for the Zeltweg – Fohnsdorf route |
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Web links
- Kronprinz-Rudolf-Bahn in the encyclopedia of railways from 1912
- Kronprinz-Rudolf-Bahn near Oberegger: On the railway history of the Alps-Danube-Adriatic region
Individual evidence
- ↑ License deed of November 11, 1866
- ↑ License deed of February 23, 1869
- ↑ License deed of April 24, 1871
- ↑ License deed of July 16, 1871
- ↑ License document of May 27, 1875
- ^ Law of April 8, 1884 concerning the acquisition of the Kaiser Franz-Joseph-Bahn, Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn and Vorarlberger Bahn for the state