New Bukovina Local Railway Company

The New Bukowina Local Railway Company (NBLG) was a local railway company in Bukowina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire .

It was licensed on September 25, 1895, was finally founded in 1897 and administered some local railways as well as narrow-gauge railways (760 mm) in the Bukovina.

Under their management the following routes existed:

• Local railway Hliboka – Sereth (today Hlyboka - Siret ; opened on January 1, 1897 - route length 18.265 km)
• Local railway Itzkany – Suczawa (today Ițcani– Suceava ; opened on January 1, 1897 - route length 4.851 km)
• Local railway Radautz – Brodina (today Rădăuți - Brodina ; opening on July 7, 1898 - route length 41.371 km)
  • Karlsberg – Putna cable car (route length 5.456 km)
• Local railway Nepolokoutz – Wiznitz (today Nepolokiwzi - Wyschnyzja ; opening on July 7, 1898 - route length 43.914 km)
• Local line Luzan – Zaleszczyki (today Luschany - Salishchyky ; connected to the local line Zaleszczyki – Chortków of the East Galician Local Railways ; opening on July 12, 1898 - route length 43.541 km)
• Local railway Hadikfalva – Radautz (today Dorneşti - Rădăuți ; bought and taken over by Bukowinaer Lokalbahnen on July 1, 1898 - opening on November 17, 1889 - route length 8.140 km)
• Local railway Werenczanka – Okna (route length 23.246 km)
  • Leg Werenczanka - Jurkoutz (opening on 17 October 1909)
  • Section Jurkoutz– Okna (opening on January 1, 1910)
• Sereth – Synoutz drag line (opening on June 27, 1911 - route length 5.735 km)
• Narrow-gauge local railway Brodina – Seletin (route length 20.951 km)
  • Leg Brodina - Sipitul (opening on August 10, 1912)
  • Sipitul– Seletin section (opening on October 26, 1913)

The first 5 routes were approved by the state in the first concession document, the local railway Werenczanka-Okna was licensed on February 19, 1907 and again on January 9, 1909.

Since the company did not have its own operating resources, the management of the railway was in the hands of the Austrian State Railways .

The SU itself existed until the end of the First World War in 1918/19, after which it was dissolved and the routes went, since the Bukovina was now part of Greater Romania in the possession of the Căile Ferate Române (Romanian State Railway Company).

See also

• Lviv-Chernivtsi-Jassy Railway
• Operational network of the kkStB

credentials

1. ↑ License document in the Reichsgesetzblatt of 1895, No. 161, page 603
2. ↑ License document in the Reichsgesetzblatt from 1907, No. 71, page 372
3. ^ Concession document in the Reichsgesetzblatt from 1909, No. 7, page 12

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 .
• Oesterreichischer Eisenbahnbeamten-Verein: History of the railways of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy . tape 1 , part 2. Karl Prochaska publishing house, Vienna 1898.
• 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.