Košice–Bohumín Railway

The kk privileged Košice- Berger train, Hungarian: cs. és kir. szab. Spot Oderbergi Vasút ( Ks.Od. ) tschech. Košicko - Bohumínská dráha ( KBD), Slovak:. Košicko - Bohumin železnica ) was a private railway company in the former Austria - Hungary. The main route of society - the real Košice- Berger railway - linking the industrial and coal mining district of Silesia with the then top Hungarian city of Kassa ( ungar Kassa, today Košice ) in today's eastern Slovakia.

History

In 1866 the Košice- Berger Railroad received the concession to build a railway which the shortest path to the Hungary should join the Prussian rail network in Silesia. In the years 1869-1872 the difficult trassierte 362 km long main line of the Oder mountain in Austrian Silesia was completed to Košice. The Directorate of k.k. privileged society was in the Hungarian capital Budapest, operating lines were later in Cieszyn (for the Austrian section ) and Košice.

Another main line ran the KsOd from 1870 later Košice north to Eperjes (now Prešov ), where connection to the equally private Eperjes - Tarnow line towards Leluchów in Austria (now Poland) was. On April 18, 1874, the Košice- Berger Railway merged with this company.

With the Czorbasee Cog Railway in the Tatra Mountains, the KsOd operation from 1896 also a means of transport, which mainly served the tourism.

For quite a number of private local railways, which joined the main route Košice- Berg, the KsOd took over the management. But even on lines owned by the Hungarian State Railways MÁV - as the connection Csadcza - Zwardoń - led the KsOd from the operation. For Hungary, the railroad was very important mainly because of coal imports. But even in the passenger presented the main line of the railway company is an important network element in the Central European Highway, about the also ran coaches to the Orient Express and was conducted during the First World War, the Balkanzug.

After 1918 the route network of the Košice- Berger train remained entirely in the newly formed Czechoslovakia. As a strategically important railway line ( the route Košice- Berg was the only powerful connection in the east of the country ) was the KsOd as soon as possible provided for nationalization.

On 1 February 1921, the company was nationalized. Routes and vehicles were taken over by the Czechoslovak State Railways ČSD.

The routes

• Košice ( Kassa ) Bohumín (or mountain ) (* 1869/1872 ); see railway Košice - Žilina, Žilina railway - Bohumín
• ( Košice ) Kysak - Prešov (* 1870)
• Cog railway Štrba - Štrbské Pleso; 1000 mm gauge; (1896-1932)

Operated on behalf of the owner routes

• Popradtalbahn: Poprad - Podolínec (* 1889/93)
• Leutschautalbahn: Ves - Levoča (* 1893)
• Studený Potok Tatranská Lomnica (* 1895)
• Spišské Vlachy - Spišské Podhradie
• Strazky - Spisská Bela
• Prešov, Bardejov
• Zilina Rajec
• Čadca - Makov
• Čadca - Zwardoń
• Arvatalbahn: Kraľovany - Sucha Hora
• Göllnitztalbahn: Margecany - Gelnica (* 1884) and Gelnica - Smolník ( 1884-1965; 1000 mm gauge)
• Ružomberok - Korytnica (1908-1974; 760 mm gauge )

Locomotives

The table shows the number of names of kk priv Košice- Berger train and how they were incorporated into the ČSD designation system in 1924.

The area under the management of the Košice- Berger train local railways procured usually have their own locomotives. They arrived later in the inventory of the Košice- Berger train and received with the exception of narrow gauge railways track numbers after the KsOd schema.