Zámrsk Railway station

The railway station Zámrsk is a key transport hub in the village Zámrsk, located in the Ústí nad Orlicí district of Pardubice. It is located on the line Prague - Česká Třebová and was founded between 1843 and 1845 as part of the First Railway Corridor and the 4th Pan-European Railway Corridor.

The station was created as a three-track station of the IV class on the newly built line of the company North State Railway from Olomouc to Prague. The ceremonial train passed on August 20, 1845 for the personal management of engineer Jan Perner, who designed the entire track.

The original expedition building, probably by architect Anton Jüngling, was built in the style of the Empire. It was a three-storey structure with two side wings. The facade of the central part was decorated with belt brass and the windows on the ground floor ended with a half-circle enchantment with a direct mantelpiece. Side wings had smooth plaster and corner barefoot, while the interior did not contain a vestibule; passengers entered the waiting room through a narrow corridor.

The infrastructure of the station included a one-track draw with an adjacent storey workshop building and water tanks. A guard house was built near Olomouc, while in the second half of the 19th century there was a six-sided storey waterworks. In 1910 it was replaced by a double waterjet with two steel tanks of a total volume of 120 m ³, made of a non-washed white brick wall with a third wood floor.

The ownership of the station has undergone changes from the North State Railways to StEG to its nationalisation, when it was managed by state railways.

Zámrsk was of superior importance in the 19th century due to its position on the imperial road and it worked as the only cargo loading warehouse between Pardubice and Česká Třebová. The station was originally used by the inhabitants of the High Myth, which led to its renaming to the High Myto in 1862. The creation of the sugar factory in 1868 increased its importance, but a new station closer to the city centre in 1882 led to the return of the original name and the decrease in transport importance.

In 1958, the expedition building was registered in the Central List of Cultural Monuments, but the protection was abolished in July 1964 for general repair. The 1966 reconstruction was insensitive; The facade was plastered and the windows were replaced with large format windows, which suppressed the original Empire style.

The modern era of the station began in 1957 with electric operation. In 2005, a major reconstruction took place on the corridor station, where the platform was modified, an electronic information system was installed and the shipping building was repaired. These adjustments allowed the speed of trains to increase to 160 km / h. In 2013 there was an exchange of station security equipment, when the AŽD 71 relay equipment replaced the ESA 44 electronic control device, which is now controlled remotely from CDP Prague.

The railway station Zámrsk represents technical development of transport from the beginnings of the railway to modern high speed corridors. Its architecture, although marked by later interventions, resembles the era of establishing a railway network in the Czech countries and is a valuable destination for interested people in the industrial history and architecture of railways.