Local railway Czudin – Koszczuja
| Czudin – Koszczuja | |
|---|---|
| Gauge : | 760 mm ( Bosnian gauge ) |
The local railway Czudin – Koszczuja was a narrow-gauge local railway (760 mm gauge) in the Bukowina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire .
history
At the instigation of forest owners Alexander Ritter von Gojan and August Ritter von Gorayski were the Bukovina Lokalbahnen the project a narrow gauge local train for forestry exploitation of forest resources in the area around Hilcze (now Hiltscha / Гілча) and Koszczuja (now Koschtschuha / Кощуга) with connection to the Branch line of the local railway Hliboka – Berhometh on the Sereth in Czudin (today Tschudej / Чудей) submitted to the Ministry of Commerce. The concession to build the line was granted to the Bukowina Local Railways on January 18, 1907, and the line was finally opened for freight traffic on October 15, 1908.
In the following years there was also a need for passenger traffic, on January 16, 1911, the concession was extended to this effect and passenger traffic on the line was started in the same year.
After the First World War , the line was taken over and continued by the Romanian State Railways , after the Second World War it was continued as a forest railway and later discontinued.
Stations and route
The following stations and stops were put into operation in 1908:
- Czudin station
- Station Czyresz (now Tscheresch / Череш)
- Czyresz saw stop
- Station Dawideny (today Dawydiwka / Давидівка)
- Station Moldavian Banilla (today Banyliw-Pidhirnyj / Банилів-Підгірний)
- Hilcze station
- Koszczuja station
See also
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literature
- Bernhard Neuner: Bibliography of the Austrian Railways from the Beginnings to 1918 . tape 2 . Walter Drews Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-901949-00-3 .
- EA number: The local railways in Galicia and Bukovina . tape 2 . Lehmann & Wentzel publishing bookstore, Vienna 1908.
- Wolfram Wendelin: Carpathian Steam - Narrow Gauge Railways in Northern Bukovina . tape 2 . Self-published by W. Wendelin, Mautern 2003.