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Štrbské Pleso Railway Station
Štrbské Pleso railway station () is a junction (rail), junction station in the High Tatras. It serves the settlement of Štrbské Pleso, which is part of the Municipalities of Slovakia, village of Štrba, in the Prešov Region, northeastern Slovakia. Opened in 1970, the station is the northwestern terminus of the main line operated by the metre gauge Tatra Electric Railway (TEŽ), and the mountain terminus of the Štrbské Pleso – Štrba rack railway, another metre gauge line. The station is also the highest point of both lines, and of the TEŽ as a whole, at above sea level. The station is currently owned by Železnice Slovenskej republiky (ŽSR); train services are operated by Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko (ZSSK). Location Štrbské Pleso railway station is right in the centre of the Štrbské Pleso village, across the road from the Hotel Toliar. The Štrbské Pleso village is a ski, tourist, and health resort. It is adjacent to the town of Vysoké Tatry (town), V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ERB OBCE ŠTRBA
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Tatra Electric Railway
The Tatra Electric Railway (), colloquially Tatra Railway, is an electrified (1500 V direct current, DC) single track narrow gauge railway in the Slovak part of the Tatra mountains. It consists of two connected lines: * Poprad-Tatry railway station, Poprad – Starý Smokovec railway station, Starý Smokovec – Štrbské Pleso railway station, Štrbské Pleso (29,1 km) * Starý Smokovec railway station, Starý Smokovec – Tatranská Lomnica railway station, Tatranská Lomnica (5,9 km) At Štrbské Pleso, the railway connects to the Štrbské Pleso–Štrba rack railway. At Starý Smokovec, the railway connects to the Starý Smokovec–Hrebienok funicular. History After the completion of the Košice-Bohumín Railway in 1871 and of Poprad - Kežmarok in 1892, the High Tatras were easier to access, and tourism expanded, which required accessibility. In 1896, a Štrbské Pleso - Štrba rack railway, rack railway from Štrbské Pleso to Štrba was built. Finally, it wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rail Transport In Slovakia
Rail transport in Slovakia began on September 21, 1840, with the opening of the first horse-powered line from Bratislava to Svätý Jur (at that time in the Kingdom of Hungary). The first steam-powered line, from Bratislava to Vienna, opened on August 20, 1848. The modern Železnice Slovenskej republiky company was established in 1993 as a successor of the Czechoslovak State Railways, Československé státní dráhy in Slovakia. Until 1996 it had formal monopoly on railroad transportation in the country, which remained a ''de facto'' monopoly until the advent of private operators entering the network in the early 2010s. Private Train#Passenger trains, passenger service operators include RegioJet, which operates trains between Prague (Czech Republic) and Košice, Žilina and Košice, Žilina-Bratislava-Prague and on the Komárno - Dunajská Streda - Bratislava route. The Bratislava-Komárno route is now operated by Leo Express. The other private operator is Leo Express which op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of Rail Transport In Slovakia
__NOTOC__ The history of rail transport in Slovakia began in November 1836, at the founding meeting of the participating companies for the construction of a horse railway from Bratislava to Trnava (later extended to Sereď). The first section of that railway was launched on 27 September 1840. The first locomotive powered railway in today's Slovakia was constructed by the Hungarian "Northern Railway Company" on the Bratislava–Marchegg–Gänserndorf (–Vienna) line, commissioned on 20 August 1848. By 1872, upon the completion of the Košice–Bohumín Railway, railways linked one end of Upper Hungary with the other. Following the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 that created the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary, transport issues became the responsibility of the Hungarian Government, which also inherited the duty to support local railway companies. This came at a considerable cost: in the 1874 fiscal year 8% of the annual budget went to railway company subsidies. This led the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Station Building
A station building, also known as a head house, is the main building of a passenger railway station. It is typically used principally to provide services to passengers. A station building is a component of a station, which can include tracks, platforms, an overpass or underpass, and a train shed. Normally, a station building will be of adequate size for the type of service that is to be performed. It may range from a simple single-storey building with limited services to passengers to a large building with many indoor spaces providing many services. Some station buildings are of monumental proportions and styles. Both in the past and in recent times, especially when constructed for a modern high-speed rail network, a station building may even be a true masterpiece of architecture. A typical railway station building will have a side entrance hall off the road or square where the station is located. Near the entrance will be a ticket counter, ticket machines, or both. There will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1970
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1970 took place on 14–22 February 1970 in Vysoké Tatry, Czechoslovakia (present-day Slovakia). This was the second time this city hosted the event having done so in 1935. It was the first time an event was televised in colour from Czechoslovakia though broadcasting there remained in black and white. This was the first championships that timed the results in hundredths of a second, a practice that continued until the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid when Sweden's Thomas Wassberg edged out Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...'s Juha Mieto by 0.01 seconds in the men's 15 km event. Men's cross-country 15 km 17 February 1970 30 km 16 February 1970 50 km 20 February 1970 4 × 10 km relay 22 February 197 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ŽSR Class 420
Railways of the Slovak Republic (, acronym: ''ŽSR'') is the state-owned railway infrastructure company of Slovakia. The company was established in 1993 as the successor to the Czechoslovak State Railways () in Slovakia following the dissolution of Czechoslovakia. It had a formal monopoly on railroad transportation in Slovakia until 1996, and while other rail transport companies have since been allowed to operate in the countryfor example, RegioJet, a private provider, has been operating passenger rail lines since 2012, it has retained a de facto monopoly. In 2002, the Slovak parliament passed a law dividing the company. ŽSR was tasked with infrastructure maintenance, while passenger and freight transport was moved to Železničná spoločnosť. In 2005, this new company was further split into Železničná spoločnosť Slovensko, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vysoké Tatry (town)
Vysoké Tatry (; , ; , ; , ), formally Mesto Vysoké Tatry () is a town at the feet of the Slovak part of High Tatras in Slovakia including all the major resorts in that region. It was created in 1990, and its official name from 1990 to 1999 was '' Starý Smokovec'', which is the name of one of its major settlements. Features and statistics The town of Vysoké Tatry is special in many aspects. It is not a true town, but a conglomerate of separate and different settlements (originally separate villages), whose only common feature is that they are the main tourist resorts in the Slovak High Tatras, while being connected through a common railway network (the Tatra Railway). After the country's capital, the town is Slovakia's major tourist destination. It has around 4,000 inhabitants, excluding tourists. It is located at an elevation of above sea level. Covering , it is Slovakia's second-largest urban area, after the country's capital, and was the largest until 2007, when the vill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
