Reichenberg-Gablonz-Tannwalder Railway
The AG Reichenberg-Gablonz-Tannwalder Railway (RGTE) was a state-guaranteed local railway company in today's Czech Republic . Their most important route was the local railway from Reichenberg (today: Liberec) via Gablonz (today: Jablonec nad Nisou) and Morchenstern (today: Smržovka) to Tannwald (today: Tanvald). On January 1, 1930, the company was nationalized and became part of the Czechoslovak State Railways (ČSD).
history
The concession for the construction of a line from Reichenberg to Gablonz, with a possible extension to Tannwald, took place on July 2, 1886. The first line from Reichenberg to Gablonz was opened on November 26, 1888. On March 15, 1893, the RGTE received an extension of the license for a wing runway from Morchenstern to Josefsthal . The Gablonz – Wiesenthal line was opened on July 12, 1894, the rest of the line to Tannwald and the wing runway on October 10, 1894.
On July 1, 1902, an extension from Tannwald to Grünthal (imperial border) was put into operation in order to get a connection to the Prussian state railways and to open up the scenic region of the Giant Mountains . This route became known for its 6.652 km cogwheel route.
From the day it was opened, the kk priv. South-North German Connection Railway (SNDVB) ran the business. From July 1, 1902, the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) took over the management.
The routes
- Reichenberg – Gablonz – Tannwald-Schumburg (from 1888/1894)
- Morchenstern – Josefsthal-Maxdorf (from 1894)
- Tannwald-Schumburg-Grünthal (from 1902)
Driving resources
Locomotives
As initial equipment, the local railway company acquired two quadruple-coupled tank locomotives from Wiener Neustädter Lokomotivfabrik and two triple-coupled tank locomotives from Krauss in Linz . With a service weight of only 36 tons, the four-coupled locomotives were the lightest Austrian locomotives of this type. With the extension of the route to Tannwald and Josefsthal-Maxdorf, triple-coupled machines were purchased from Krauss in Linz. It was a comparatively heavy, powerful type that had already proven itself on the Großpriesen – Wernstadt – Auscha local railway under similar operating conditions. On the cogwheel railway line to Grünthal, the RGTE used four-coupled cogwheel locomotives, which were supplied in 1901 by the Floridsdorf locomotive factory .
The locomotives almost exclusively bore the names of the places in the traffic area. The former 23G IGNAZ GINZKEY was the only one of the RGTE locomotives to be preserved as an exhibit in the National Technical Museum in Prague . In its last operational state as ČSD 404.003, it is now on loan in the Jaroměř Railway Museum .
| Locomotives of the Reichenberg-Gablonz-Tannwalder Railway | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RGTE no. | image | number | Manufacturer | Construction year | Axis formula | kkStB no. | ČSD no. | DR no. | annotation | |
| 1G-2G |  |
2 | Wiener Neustadt | 1888 | D n2t | 78.10-11 | 400.001-002 | - | ||
| 5G-6G |  |
2 | Krauss / Linz | 1888 | Ct n2 | 293.20-21 | 300.201-202 | - | ||
| 11G-15G |  |
5 | Krauss / Linz | 1894, 1904, 1909 | Cn2t | 162.24-30 | 313.424-430 | 98.1216-1222 | ||
| 21G-23G |  |
3 | Floridsdorf | 1901 | D1zz-n4t | 169.50-52 | 404.001 -003 | 97 601-603 | Rack locomotive | |
dare
On January 1, 1895, the RGTE owned seven 2nd class passenger cars, four combined 2nd and 3rd class and 26 units that only ran 3rd class. These were exclusively two-axle vehicles with open platforms. They were equipped with a suction air brake from the start . The wagons remained in their area of operation even after the nationalization in 1930 and were not taken out of service by the ČSD until after the Second World War.
literature
- Alfred Horn: The Austrian Northwest Railway (= The Austrian-Hungarian Railway . Volume 1 ). Bohmann Verlag, Vienna 1967, p. 132-143 .
- Pavel Blatník: Počátky lokální železniční dopravy v severovýchodních Čechách , Klika, Praha 2017; ISBN 978-80-87373-74-3 , pp. 45-58