Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis
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province of Galicia in the second half of the 19th century, under management of Prince Leon Sapieha
Leon Sapieha
Leon Sapieha was a Polish noble , politician and statesman.Leon was born and educated in Warsaw, and studied law and economic in Paris and Edinburgh from 1820 to 1824. He began to work in the administration in the Polish Kingdom...
, with licence granted to him by Emperor Franz Josef
Franz Josef
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on April 7, 1858. Works on the system, carried out by the Association of Charles Louis Railway were not completed until 1892.
Once finished, the line crossed whole Galicia from west to east, joining main urban centers of the province - Kraków
Kraków
Kraków also Krakow, or Cracow , is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century. Kraków has traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, cultural, and artistic life...
, Tarnów
Tarnów
Tarnów is a city in southeastern Poland with 115,341 inhabitants as of June 2009. The city has been situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship since 1999, but from 1975 to 1998 it was the capital of the Tarnów Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east-west connection...
, Rzeszów
Rzeszów
Rzeszów is a city in southeastern Poland with a population of 179,455 in 2010. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River, in the heartland of the Sandomierska Valley...
, Przemyśl
Przemysl
Przemyśl is a city in south-eastern Poland with 66,756 inhabitants, as of June 2009. In 1999, it became part of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship; it was previously the capital of Przemyśl Voivodeship....
, Lwów and Tarnopol. It started in Kraków and ended at the border rail station of Podwoloczyska (today Pidvolochysk), where it was connected over Zbruch with railroads of the Russian Empire
Russian Empire
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at Volochysk
Volochysk
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. Apart from the main, west-east line, the system was made of secondary importance connections, such as:
- Kraków - WieliczkaWieliczka-External links:***...
, - Kraków - Niepołomice.
Further west, the Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis was connected with rail system of Bohemia
Bohemia
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and Austria at the junctions of Cieszyn
Cieszyn
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and Bohumin
Bohumín
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. Also, in 1884, the Tarnów - Stroze
Stróze
Stróże is a village, located in southern Poland, in the Nowy Sącz County of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. Situated some 4 kilometres north of Grybów, Stróże is an important railroad junction, with lines going into three directions - northwards to Tarnów, westwards to Nowy Sącz and eastwards to...
- Jasło line was completed, which connected the Archduke Charles Louis Rail with network of the Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
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.
Currently, the Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis is part of Polish line number 91, which goes from Kraków to the border crossing of Medyka
Medyka
Medyka is a village in Przemyśl County, Subcarpathian Voivodeship, in south-eastern Poland, close to the border with Ukraine. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Medyka...
near Przemyśl.
See also
- Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways
- History of rail transport in PolandHistory of rail transport in PolandThe history of rail transport in Poland dates back to the first half of the 19th century when railways were built under Prussian, Russian, and Austrian rule. Of course, "divided Poland" in 19th century was the territory of the former Commonwealth of Poland and not that one of today's Republic of...
- Galician Transversal RailwayGalician Transversal RailwayThe Galician Transversal Railway was a railway system, opened in 1884 in the province of Galicia...