The Cultural Heritage of the Northern State Railway

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