Published: 2021-05-091

Railways of Galicia before the First World War

Volodymyr Klapchuk , Ihor Makaruk , Mykhailo Klapchuk
Echa Przeszłości
Section: ARTICLES
https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.6711

Abstract

The Galician rail network in Austria and Austria-Hungary was built before the outbreak of World War I. The first railway construction projects were developed in the 1830s. The construction of the first rail tracks began in the late 1840s. The first railway connecting Western and Eastern Galicia was put into operation in 1861. Before WWI, the Galician rail network spanned a total length of more than 4,000 km. The construction of local wide and narrow gauge railways began in the same period. The railway construction process, transport capacity and the railway infrastructure in Galicia have never been comprehensively studied in view of recently emerged data. This article offers a thorough analysis of the Galician network of strategic and local railways beginning from their construction to the outbreak of WWI.

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railway, length, density,, freight traffic, passenger traffic

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Klapchuk, V., Makaruk, I., & Klapchuk, M. (2021). Railways of Galicia before the First World War. Echa Przeszłości, (XXII/1), 105–140. https://doi.org/10.31648/ep.6711

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