The line between the stations Praha-Smchov and Dunky, the day Rudná near Prague, the deep Prokopský and Dalejské dolm was established in 1873 as a bite of Prasko-duchcovsk drhy. This section was used mainly for the transport of northern coal to the metropolis.

The rest of the lines to the Beroun-Zvod station were built only 24 years later. There, the tracks connected to the Rakovnicko-protivnsk brazen, overcame the Berounka and rode on the Beroun main railway.

The local railway was designed mainly for the transport of pence. From 1918, a special freight cable car led from the Lodnice station to the Solvay quarries. The discarded raw material was baked to the wagons and sent to St nad Labem, where sodium carbonate (soda) was produced from the oven.

In the eight years of the 20th century, Solvay’s quarries stopped growing, and so freight transport continued to dominate the line, leaving only passenger transport. Due to her profile, the track Hrbat drha. In recent years, it has undergone a thorough reconstruction and optimization, since the station has disappeared and the whole section is in debt.

Behind the new Prague-Hluboepy SDC branch, it started testing a new low-noise barrier a few years ago. After the modernization, diversions of trains from the Berounka line appear on the market, including fast.

From Berounka to other monitored trains

He will set out on his way from the Beroun main railway. Beroun can be poten or the end station of your flight on the Czech Karst. We recommend visiting the nearby Konprusk Caves, Mstská hora with a meddriem or the Museum of the Czech Karst.

Train eskch drah, which I have on Hrbatou drhu, usually stands at the ndran of the building. The main line from Pilsen to Prague and the peculiar steel bridge over the Berounka leave through the left arch. On the other side, there is a remnant of standard-gauge lifts to the Alkazar quarry, underpasses the D5 line and stops at the Beroun-Zvod station.

The route Nibor, Kivoklt, Rakovnk continues, then the train turns right and starts to climb to the station Vr u Berouna. From here you can go to the Lhotka lookout tower (3 km) or to Svatho Jan pod Skalou (2.5 km). In addition to the famous sights, you can see the general museum or continue 3 kilometers to the Mining Open-Air Museum Solvayovy lomy.

From Vře kolej opt descend sharply to the Lodnice station. First here Ji Menzel found his famous Oste tracked trains, according to a book by Bohumil Hrabal. In the ndran buildings you can also visit the Museum of the Track and Oste monitored train. Just two kilometers from the railway you can visit Chrustenická achta, a town where iron ore was mined until 1965.

You can drive the humpback route from Beroun to Prague in just 4 minutes:

The land of pence and iron ore

In the vicinity of Nuice nae Regionova, you will pass a place where in the 20th century, in addition to the penny, there was also iron ore for the Kladno smelter. If you are interested in this historical stage of the Czech industry, you can visit the zero municipal museum.

Before the station Nuice pejdmezbytky Kladensko-nuick drhy, today lifts to the quarry Moina. In Rudn near Prague, the route from Hostivice, resp. from Stedokluk, ie the original Prasko-duchcovsk drha.

Behind the station of the epory, the labyrinth of Dalejsk and Prokopskho dol enters. So here you will be accompanied by darkness at every kilometer.

We will go through the center of the former Biskup, Kvis & Kotrba company hall and we will gradually walk around today at the defunct quarries with romantic names like Pory, ern lom, Mulovka or erven quarry.

Both mines are well explored, you can find remnants of the double carriageway, abandoned tunnels and the remains of the railway tracks.

At the end of Prokopskho dol, let’s go through the two deep viaducts, which we drove in according to the Semmering rift, and under the Zlchov church of St. Filip and Jakub, we connect to the same line that we left in Beroun.

We will pass Vtopny Zlchov, we can call to iDNES.tv cameras, which captures non-stop traffic from the Smchov region and we stop at the station Prague-Smchov.