Narrow-gauge railway Trenčianska Teplá – Trenčianske Teplice
Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 34 ″ N , 18 ° 10 ′ 7 ″ E
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| Route length: | 5.427 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 760 mm ( Bosnian gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 1909–1942: 750 volts = 1942–1984: 950 volts = 1984 – today: 600 volts = |
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| Top speed: | 30 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The narrow-gauge railway Trenčianska Teplá – Trenčianske Teplice (Slovakian Trenčianska Elektrická Železnica , also called TREŽ for short ) is an electrically operated narrow-gauge branch line in Slovakia that was opened in 1909 . The train runs between Trenčianska Teplá and Trenčianske Teplice and has the character of an interurban tram due to its route through towns, fields and forests .
history
The purpose of the train from Trenčianska Teplá to Trencianske Teplice was to meet the demand with sufficient capacity and powerful vehicles, as well as to ensure the transport of people, especially spa guests, between the Trenčianska Teplá station and Trenčianske Teplice. Up to this point in time, used mail cars were omnibuses. When the post office was established in Trenčianske Teplice in 1842, these baths were well connected to all of Europe. The carriages, with a capacity of six passengers, were yellow, painted and pulled by three horses. The contract of 1889, which stated that the Huber, R. and K. Fiala store undertook to provide regular train services to the health resort Trenčianske Teplice. The first concrete plans for the construction of the railway line came as early as 1886. Trenčianske Teplice received an offer from Ing.Edmund Bleier from Trencin in 1907 to build an electric railway with a 760 mm gauge for a relatively low price of 44,000 crowns. On June 4, 1907, the spa community accepted this costly offer. The construction of the railway began in early 1908 and on December 12 of the same year founded a joint-stock company Holák - Trencsénteplicz helyi érdekel villamos Vasut Rt, based in Trencin (later it turned out that the company's headquarters were in Budapest). The opening date of the route is different. The tram company gave the date June 27, 1909, the municipality gave July 27, 1909. The Trenčiner Zeitung reported that regular connections to the train station began on June 27, 1909 at 9 a.m.
The gauge of 760 mm ( Bosnian gauge ) set in the opening year for the entire route of the electrically operated narrow-gauge railway has been retained to this day. The train runs from the state train station Trenčianska Teplá across the town, where it serves two stops . After the village she drives through fields and forests to the health resort Trenčianske Teplice.
Today passenger traffic takes place with railcars of the class 411.9 (ex ČSD class EM 46.1 ), which were built in the 1950s and modernized in the meantime (1980). On weekdays , a control car was added to the railcars as reinforcement . These control cars were sold by ŽSR in 2008 and 2010 respectively . There are currently around ten pairs of trains running on the route every day. The travel time is around 15 minutes and the maximum speed is 30 km / h.
The entire route is run in simplified operation (similar to train control ). There are no longer any crossings on the route and the two terminal stations are not manned by dispatchers , based on the narrow-gauge railway - so it is a completely independent operation. Even in the days of communism in Czechoslovakia , there was the crossing station "Výhybňa Kaňová" (výhybňa means "passing point") halfway along the route, which has been closed for a long time and whose crossing track was removed when the line was renovated in 2000. In the time when train crossings were still carried out, two train units drove simultaneously on the route and crossed in Výhybňa Kaňová.
The entire route has been declared a technical monument , although things were not particularly good for this gem in the 1990s. Considerations for decommissioning existed because the line was in great need of renovation. The track condition was sometimes so bad that the passenger had to hold on to the seats. Slow speeds of 5 km / h and a travel time of up to 30 minutes indicated the desolate operating situation. Between the years 2000 and 2001, the entire route was then "overgrown" in stages , and the tracks were relocated with the help of Slovak soldiers. During this time, a rail replacement service was carried out, which clearly showed the need for the train, since two buses had to be used for each journey to cope with the rush of passengers. Today only passenger traffic takes place on the railway, freight traffic was discontinued many years ago.
The operating workshop of the railway is located next to the state railway site in Trenčianska Teplá and consists of a large and above all neat hall with several stands. The railcars and control cars are located here.
Operationally important stations or train stations can hardly be found along the route. The Trenčianska Teplá train station is located on the main Bratislava – Žilina line (exactly 132 kilometers from Bratislava) and has five platform tracks in the state railway area. The narrow-gauge railway leaves from its own platform on the station forecourt. There are two bus stops in Trenčianska Teplá: Trenčianska Teplá obec ("Trenčianska Teplá place") and Trenčianska Teplá zastávka ("Trenčianska Teplá stop"). In Trenčianske Teplice there is an imperial-looking station for the narrow-gauge railway with two platform tracks and track systems for possible shunting trips or for moving locomotive-hauled trains. The train station in Trenčianske Teplice had a manned ticket office until mid-2007 and reminds of long-forgotten times in the reception hall (which is no longer open to the public) (for example an old luggage scale). In addition to the train station, there are two stops in Trenčianske Teplice: Trenčianske Teplice zastávka ("Trenčianske Teplice stop") and Trenčianske Teplice sídlisko ("Trenčianske Teplice settlement").
In the 2004/2005 timetable year, the trains on the route were made “ conductorless ”. The driver now sells the tickets himself at the unoccupied stops.
The Slovakian Railways (ŽSR) wanted to suspend the operation of the narrow-gauge railway on October 1, 2006, as several renovation measures were pending, including, for example, the renovation of the vehicle hall.
Since 2007, the railcars have had a functioning passenger information system that announces the respective stops and greets or says goodbye to passengers in Slovak, German and English at the beginning and end of the journey.
On July 25, 2007, a new stop was set up at the former “Vyhybná Kaňová” crossing station. Since then, trains have stopped again in the middle of the fields at the newly designed “Kaňová” stop. The breakpoint is used purely as a stop on demand .
In 2008 one of the railcars was given a red / beige color scheme. However, this coloring has nothing to do with the paintwork from the 1990s. This should apparently represent an adjustment to the current color concept of the Slovakian railways. With this paintwork, the railcar doesn't look a bit more modern, but rather more nostalgic and thus offers a color change to its two other sister vehicles, which are painted blue / beige or blue / white.
As early as May 1, 2011, regular passenger train traffic on the route should be discontinued. However, it was only discontinued on December 9, 2011. Since then, seasonal traffic has been carried out on the route by the non-profit organization Trež .
Vehicle fleet
| image | Type | Surname | Construction year | particularities |
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| ZSSK series 411.901-2 | "Capko" | 1951 | Modernized in 1989 | |
| ZSSK series 411.902-0 | "Delimonka" | 1951 | Modernized in 1988 | |
| ZSSK series 411.903-8 | "Philadelphia" | 1951 | Modernized in 1987 | |
| ZSSK series DH 100 | "Lokomotíva" | 1989 | ||
| ZSSK series 911.901-7 | "Jednotka" | 1954 | Modernized in 1989; out of service since April 29, 2008 | |
| ZSSK series 911.902-5 | "Dvojka" | 1954 | Modernized in 1989; out of service since May 27, 2010 |
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literature
- Martin Junge: Electric narrow-gauge railway Trenčianska Teplá – Trenčianske Teplice: Farewell to regular traffic. In: Der Preß´-Kurier issue 1/2012 (February / March 2012), pp. 32–35.
Web links
- Information about the route in Slovak
- Side about the train on the side of the urban and regional local transport in Slovakia and the Czech Republic (Slovak)
- Timetable from December 2007 (PDF file; 65 kB)
- Current website of the operator with 2017 timetable
Individual evidence
- ↑ Junge, Preß-Kurier 1/2012, p. 34.