Open AccessRailways of Galicia before the First World War
Author(s) -
Volodymyr Klapchuk,
Ihor Makaruk,
Mykhailo Klapchuk
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
echa przeszłości
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.101
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2450-078X
pISSN - 1509-9873
DOI - 10.31648/ep.6711
Subject(s) - rail network , period (music) , first world war , economy , regional science , geography , transport engineering , engineering , telecommunications , civil engineering , history , ancient history , physics , acoustics , economics
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.