The Košice–Bohumín Railway (, , , , ) can refer to: *originally: A private railway company established in 1869 in

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. In 1924 the company was nationalised and put under the

Czechoslovak State Railways Czechoslovak State Railways (''Československé státní dráhy'' in Czech or ''Československé štátne dráhy'' in Slovak, often abbreviated to ČSD) was the state-owned railway company of Czechoslovakia. The company was founded in 1918 ...

. *nowadays: The main track of this company (between

Košice Košice is the largest city in eastern Slovakia. It is situated on the river Hornád at the eastern reaches of the Slovak Ore Mountains, near the border with Hungary. With a population of approximately 230,000, Košice is the second-largest cit ...

and

Bohumín Bohumín (; , ) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 20,000 inhabitants. Administrative division Bohumín consists of seven municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 202 ...

). The Košice-Bohumín track connected the industrial area of

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with the city of Košice in what is now eastern

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. It was completed in 1872.

Tracks of the company

* Košice – Bohumín (350 km, construction started in 1869, completed in 1869–1872), including: ** Bohumín –

Český Těšín Český Těšín (; ; ) is a town in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 23,000 inhabitants. Český Těšín lies on the west bank of the Olza (river), Olza river, in the heart of the historical ...

completed on 5 May 1869 ** Český Těšín –

Žilina Žilina (; ; ; ; Names of European cities in different languages: U-Z#Z, names in other languages) is a city in north-western Slovakia, around from the capital Bratislava, close to both the Czech and Polish borders. It is the List of cities ...

completed on 8 January 1871 ** Žilina –

Poprad Poprad (; ; ) is a city in northern Slovakia at the foot of the High Tatras, High Tatra Mountains, famous for its picturesque historic centre and as a holiday resort. The largest town of the Spiš region and the largest of all towns in the vic ...

completed on 8 December 1871 ** Poprad –

Spišská Nová Ves Spišská Nová Ves (; ; ) is a town in the Košice Region of Slovakia. The town is located southeast of the High Tatras in the Spiš region, and lies on both banks of the Hornád River. It is the biggest town of the Spišská Nová Ves Distric ...

completed on 12 December 1871 ** Spišská Nová Ves – Kysak completed on 12 March 1872 ** (Košice) – Kysak –

Prešov Prešov () is a city in eastern Slovakia. It is the seat of administrative Prešov Region () and Šariš. With a population of approximately 85,000 for the city, and in total more than 100,000 with the urban area, it is the second-largest city i ...

(completed on 1 September 1870) * Štrbské Pleso–Štrba rack railway (gauge 1000 mm, completed in 1896) * Tatra Electric Railway (gauge 1000 mm, completed in 1912)

External links

History of the Slovak railways

Košice-Bohumín Railway on the ŽSR page
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