Chemins de Fer Royaux du Cambodge

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The Chemins de Fer Royaux du Cambodge (CRC or CFRC) were - with name changes in the meantime - the state railway company of Cambodia from 1953 to 2009.

Origin and short history

With the independence of Cambodia in 1953, the new state also took over the northern runway built by the colonial administration of French Indochina from the previous operating company Compagnie générale des colonies .

The Kingdom of Cambodia founded the Chemins de Fer Royaux du Cambodge (CRC; Royal Cambodian Railway) for this purpose. When the southern railway from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville went into operation in sections from 1967 to 1969, it was also operated by the CRC.

The CRC network was meter-gauge and at the time of its greatest expansion in 1970 had a total length of 645 km (excluding sidings).

Either already during the Khmer Republic of General Lon Nol , who abolished the monarchy , but at the latest under the Khmer Rouge , the "Royaux" ("royal") was deleted from the name of the state railway, which is now Chemins de Fer du Cambodge (CFC) (Cambodian Railway) was called. With the restoration of the monarchy in 1993, the "Royaux" returned in the name of the railway company.

On June 12, 2009, Cambodia granted its railways a 30-year concession to Toll (Cambodia) Co., Ltd. , which operates under the name Toll Royal Railway , is a joint venture between the Australian Toll Group and the Cambodian Royal Group . At the same time, the CRC went under.

See also

literature

  • BR Whyte: The Railway Atlas of Thailand, Laos and Cambodia . White Lotus Co Ltd, Bangkok 2010, ISBN 978-974-480-157-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jane's World Railways. 39th edition, Franklin Watts., 1997, p. 61.
    Internationaler Eisenbahnverband (Ed.): Internationale Eisenbahnstatistik. 1998, p. 7.
  2. ↑ Whyte, pp. 159, 161.
  3. ↑ Whyte, p. 164.
  4. ^ Homepage of the Toll Royal Railway ; Whyte, p. 164.