The Cultural Heritage of the Northern State Railway

Detailed information

Year:

2017

Place:

Ostrava

Language:

English

Number of pages:

296

ISBN:

978-80-85034-96-7

catalog printed-publication

280 Kč

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280 Kč

Publication can be bought at a branch of the NPÚ:
Regional Office in Ostrava

Contents:

 

Introduction

  • Changing railway policy in the Habsburg Monarchy
  • The creation of a railway network and main rail corridors
  • Private companies build the first railways (1836–1841)
  • The beginnings of the state railways (1841–1854/8)
  • Changes in state railway policy – the sale of state railways to private capital (1854) 
  • The nationalization of the railway network and the creation of the Austrian State Railways (1884–1918) 

Functional types of buildings and station configurations 

  • Terminal stations 
  • Through-traffic stations
  • Island-type stations 
  • Classification and amenities of stations on the Northern State Railway 
  • Olomouc–Prague 
  • Brno–Česká Třebová 
  • Prague–Děčín 

Architecture and typology of buildings  

  • Architecture and typology of buildings on the lines of the Northern State Railway 
  • The architecture of the State Railway Company (1854–1909)
  • Passenger buildings of the nationalized Austrian State Railways (1909–1918)   
  • Passenger buildings after 1918 
  • Passenger buildings after 1945 
  • Train sheds and platform canopies 
  • Water towers 
  • Engine-houses, depots and workshops  3
  • Guardhouses and signal boxes

Bridges, viaducts and tunnels 

  • Olomouc–Prague   
  • Brno–Česká Třebová
  • Prague–Dresden

Catalogue of cultural monuments 

  • Bohušovice nad Ohří, passenger building and railway bridge 
  • Brno 
  • Brno-Obřany, tunnel no. 1 (the Obřany tunnel) 
  • Česká Třebová 
  • Děčín 
  • Dolní Zálezly 
  • Hevlín 
  • Hoštejn 
  • Hrušovany nad Jevišovkou 
  • Choceň 
  • Letovice 
  • Lovosice 
  • Moravské Bránice, Ivančice viaduct 
  • Olomouc 
  • Olomučany, tunnel no. 8/1 (the Novohradský tunnel) 
  • Pardubice
  • Prague-Bubeneč 
  • Prague-Bubny
  • Prague 9 – Hloubětín, railway viaduct 
  • Prague – Masaryk Station and the Negrelli viaduct 
  • Prague-Sedlec, railway viaduct and Podbaba halt 
  • Roztoky u Prahy 
  • Skalice nad Svitavou   
  • Střelice 
  • Sudislav nad Orlicí – guardhouse 
  • Štěpánov 
  • Ústí nad Orlicí  
  • Ústí nad Orlicí město, passenger building    
  • Úvaly, railway viaduct 
  • Zábřeh na Moravě 
  • Zámrsk 
  • Znojmo, viaduct 

Conclusion

Stations on the lines of the former northern state railway 

Literature and sources  


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