History of transport, local railroad network, local government, Austrian Silesia

Studie se zabývá rolí zemské samosprávy v procesu budování lokální železniční sítě na příkladu Rakouského Slezska.

The study inquires into the building of local railways in the period of the so called co-operative rails and the role of local government in this process. Pressured by the statě and society, the government began to actively support the construction of local railways in the 1880's. The individual countries of the Cisleithan Regions dealt with the problém of building die local network in different ways. Silesian authorities became engaged in diis work already in the 1860's, aldiough the law promoting this activity was issued only in 1895. Unlike others, they chose to cooperate as dosely with die statě as possible. The country dius did not háve to invest great sums into the local railway network, but this choice significandy protracted its construction and die local railroad network in Silesia was successfully inaugurated only before World War I.