Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.22586/ss.25.1.6
The Pécs ‒ Donji Miholjac Local Railway Stock Company
Siniša Lajnert
Ivica Halapir
Abstract
In the paper the authors outline from the aspect of the history of institutions the history of the construction of the Pécs ‒ Donji Miholjac railway line and the structure and the activity of the Pécs ‒ Donji Miholjac Local Railway Stock Company with the headquarters in Budapest as the concessionaire that built and exploited the line. The company was established in 1913 in Budapest and the line was constructed at the same time. The Pécs ‒ Donji Miholjac railway line was built according to the system of vicinal railways based on the Act on the Railways of Local Interest from 1880 (Article XXXI) and its 1888 addendum (Article IV). Part of the railway line on the territory of the Kingdom of Croatia and Slavonia was completely situated at the Virovitica County. Pre-concessionaires of the line had changed on a regular basis and it was only on 1 April 1913 that the Royal Hungarian Minister of Trade issued the proper concession to the Budapest building company Fried and Adorjan to build and exploit the line. According to the concession terms the concessionaire had the obligation to establish a stock company with its headquarters in Pécs or Budapest, which was carried out. The 1875 Trade Act stated that the tasks of the stock company were performed by: the stockholders’ general assembly, the headquarters and the inspecting committee. The company’s management mostly comprised Hungarians. The Pécs ‒ Donji Miholjac railway line was exploited i.e. administrated by the state. The railway line of the newly established stock company at first came under the jurisdiction of the Traffic Administration of the Royal Hungarian State Railways in Szeged and in 1915 under the newly established Traffic Administration in Pécs. During the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy the company was profitable. With the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes one part of the vicinal railway line in the Croatian territory i.e. Donji Miholjac ‒ state border (4,953 km) came under the jurisdiction of the National Railway Headquarters in Zagreb. This part of the railway line towards Hungary was closed for traffic. In 1931 the Kingdom of Yugoslavia repurchased from the mentioned Budapest company part of the Pécs ‒ Donji Miholjac vicinal railway that went through the Croatian territory (from the Donji Miholjac station building to the half of Drava Bridge) and it was instantly deconstructed.
Keywords
The Pécs ‒ Donji Miholjac Local Railway Stock Company in Budapest/Zagreb; vicinal (local) railways; private railways administrated by the state; repurchase of private railways
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339826
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Publication date:
25.11.2025.
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