Hungarian Central Railway

The route network of the Hungarian Central Railway

The Hungarian Central Railway (UCB), Hungarian Magyar Középponti Vaspálya Társaság (MKpV) was a railway company in the Austrian Empire , the routes of which were in what is now Hungary . The company was nationalized in 1850.

history

In the former Hungary, the horse-drawn railway between Pressburg and Tyrnau was licensed as early as 1837 , but it was only built over a length of 8 miles to Szered until 1846 .

The first locomotive railways, however, were licensed in 1844 and 1845. In addition to the Hungarian Central Railway from Marchegg via Pressburg, Pest to Debreczin , the concessions were also granted to the wing railways to Komorn , Arad , Grosswardein and Raconocz .

On 15 July 1846, as the first track plague - Waitzen opened. Pest - Szolnok followed on September 1, 1847 and Marchegg - Pressburg on August 10, 1848 , with which a rail link between Austria and Hungary had been established.

On March 7, 1850, the UCB was redeemed for a total of 20,458,361 guilders by the Austrian state. It now operated as the kk Südostliche Staatsbahn . As early as January 1, 1855, the company was re-privatized and incorporated into the kk privileged state railway company .

The routes

• Pest – Waitzen (born July 15, 1846)
• Pest– Szolnok (born September 1, 1847)
• Marchegg – Preßburg (born August 10, 1848)

Locomotives

• 1845: PEST, BUDA, PANNONIA and POZSONY
• 1846: DEBRECZEN
• 1846: VÁCZ, NEOGRÁD, ESZTERGOM, KOMÁROM, HONT, BORSOD, NYITRA and HÉVES
• 1846: BETS
• 1846: NÁDOR, ISTVÁN
• 1847: CZEGLÉD, ABONY, PILIS, MONOR, ALBERTI, IRSA, VISEGRÁD, ÜLLÖ, SZOLNOK, BIHAR
• 1847: ERÖS, ÉRSEK-UJVÁR, TISZA and DUNA
• 1848/49: NAGY KÖRÖS, VILLAM and CSILLAG

Web links

• Information on the history of the railway (Slovak)

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 .
• Johann Stockklausner: Steam company in old Austria . Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-900134-41-3 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ The means of transport in Volks- und Staatswirthschaft, page 516, accessed on June 27, 2009
2. ↑ Reich Law and Government Gazette for the Austrian Empire of July 24, 1850