Railway Královec – Žacléř
| Královec – Žacléř | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Course book series (SŽDC) : | 043 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 5.032 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route class : | C3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 36 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 50 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The railway line Královec – Žacléř is a regional railway connection in the Czech Republic , which was originally built and operated by the Austrian Local Railway Company (ÖLEG) as the local railway Königshan – Schatzlar . It begins in Královec ( Königshan ) and leads to Žacléř ( Schatzlar ) in the Giant Mountains . Scheduled travel was discontinued in 2008.
According to a decree of the Czech government, the line has been classified as a regional railway ("regionální dráha") since December 20, 1995.
history
On August 2, 1881, the Austrian Local Railway Company received "the right to build and operate a standard-gauge local train from the Königshain station of the south-north German connecting line to Schatzlar with a branch near Lampersdorf to the coal pits there" . Part of the concession was the obligation to start construction immediately and to put the completed ropeway into operation within a year. The duration of the concession was set at 90 years.
The line was opened on October 5, 1882. The operation was carried out by the ÖLEG itself.
On July 1, 1889, the kk privileged south-north German connection railway (SNDVB) took over the management for the account of the owners. The vehicle fleet was also transferred to the SNDVB. On January 1, 1894, the ÖLEG was nationalized and the kk Austrian State Railways (kkStB) became the owner of the line. The SNDVB was released from operational management.
The 1912 timetable recorded five mixed pairs of 2nd and 3rd class trains, which in Königshan each had a connection to the trains to and from Josefstadt-Jaroměř and Trautenau. You needed 22 minutes uphill and 20 minutes downhill for the five-kilometer route to Schatzlar.
After the collapse of Austria-Hungary in October 1918, the route was transferred to the newly founded Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD). Six pairs of trains ran daily in the 1920s and 1930s.
After the Sudetenland became part of Germany in October 1938, the line came to the Deutsche Reichsbahn , Reichsbahndirektion Breslau . In the Reichskursbuch the connection was initially included as Kursbuch route 144f and later as 155f Ruhbank and Merzdorf (Rsgb) - Landeshut - Königshan (- Schatzlar) - Trautenau (- Freedom - Johannisbad) - Pelsdorf (- March village [Bohemia]) - Hohenelbe .
After the end of World War II , the line came back to the ČSD. From the 1950 summer schedule, all passenger trains ran to and from Trutnov. In the following years, the timetable was condensed to eleven train pairs, which was mainly due to the heavy rush hour traffic to Lampertice. For the shift changes in the mine, special rush hour trains ran at times that only ran to Lampertice.
A turning point was the closure of the coal mine in 1992, which led to a significant reduction in transport demand. In December 2003 travel was stopped on working days due to a lack of demand, which was last handled with six pairs of trains. Up until December 2008 there were three pairs of passenger trains on the Trutnov – Žacléř route on weekends and public holidays. Since then, the route has been without traffic apart from occasional special trains.
On January 1, 1993, the line was transferred to the newly founded České dráhy (ČD) in the course of the dissolution of Czechoslovakia . Since 2003 it has been part of the network of the state infrastructure operator Správa železniční dopravní cesty (SŽDC).
In October 2010 the Czech Ministry of Transport announced the intended closure of the line in December 2010, which was ultimately not implemented.
Vehicle use
The ÖLEG procured two triple-coupled local rail tank locomotives of the F series for the Königshahn – Schatzlar local railway , which were built by Krauss in Linz. They were later listed as 507L – 508L by the SNDVB, and the kkStB assigned the numbers 93.15–16. After the nationalization, another locomotive with the number 509L (kkStB 93.17) was added in 1902. The 93.17 came to the ČSD as 300.102, which it left in 1928.
Most recently, the train traffic was handled exclusively with the proven two-axle railcars of the ČD series 810 .
literature
- Alfred Horn: The Austrian Northwest Railway (= The Austrian-Hungarian Railway. Volume 1). Bohmann Verlag, Vienna 1967., p. 146f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas drah České republiky 2006-2007 , 2nd edition; Pavel Malkus Publishing House, Prague 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1
- ↑ Decree of the Czech government of December 20, 1995
- ^ Certificate of concession dated August 2, 1881 for the locomotive railway from Königshan to Schatzlar
- ↑ The kkStB timetable - valid from May 1, 1912
- ↑ Timetable 1939
- ↑ Timetable 1944
- ↑ ČSD timetables 1945 to 1969
- ^ ČD timetables route 043 from 2003
- ↑ Current information on www.zelpage.cz - accessed on October 21, 2010
