[Athena] CONFERENCE PROGRAMME / Railways in Transition – Eastern Europe Railways Past, Present and Future in the 20th and 21st Centuries / 24-26 Sept.09

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Railways in Transition – Eastern Europe Railways
Past, Present and Future in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Third International Conference of the International Railway History 
Association in Bratislava from 24 to 26 September 2009
Supported by UIC, ZSR, ZSSK, ZSSK Cargo, Henry Cuny, French Ambassador to 
Slovakia


Location
City Hotel Bratislava, Seberiniho 9

Registration
Deadline for conference registration
14 September 2009
via e-mail to
henry.jacolin AT free.fr

Information
http://www.aihc-irha-aihf.com

Organisation Committee
Henry Jacolin (Diplomate honoraire, IRHA Chairman)
Michèle Merger (CNRS, Paris, IRHA Honorary Chairperson) 
Ralf Roth (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University of Frankfurt IRHA General 
Secretary)

Association Internationale d’Histoire des Chemins de fer
International Railway History Association
Associacion Internacional de Historia Ferroviaria
Secrétariat, c/o Henry Jacolin, 8 rue des Ecoles - F-75 005 Paris France
e-mail: henry.jacolin AT free.fr


CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (19 July 2009)
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Arrival 
Registration
14:00 to 15:00: Opening of the Conference 
•       Welcome speech by Henry Jacolin and supporters of the conference
•       Ralf Roth: Introduction into the subject of the conference
15:00 to 17:30 First Section: Historical overview of Railways in Eastern 
European Countries
•       Zdeněk Tomeš: European railways – an application of the life-cycle 
theory
•       Jan Musekamp: The Royal Prussian Eastern Railway (Ostbahn) and its 
importance for East-West transportation
•       Martin Kvizda: Odd military lines – a comparative analysis of the 
Czech railway network’s efficiency
•       Imre Perger: History of Railway Passenger Transportation in Hungary, 
XXth-XXIst Centuries
•       Dusan Lichner: History, Present and Future of Railway Transport on 
the Territory of Current Slovakia / 
19:30 Evening reception and key note speak by Paul Veron (UIC) on the role of 
transport in Europe after reunification
Friday, 25 September 2009
9:00 to 12:30 Second Section: Under Russian Protection
•       Tomáš Nigrin: Cold War Crisis on the Railway: the Impact of the 
Construction of Berlin Wall on the Railway Traffic in Berlin
•       Ivan Jakubec: The Transport under the Socialism. The Case of the 
Czechoslovak State Railways 1948-1989
•       Milan Klubal: History of Railway Transport in Slovakia – from the 
Beginning up to Renewal and Modernisation after WWII
•       Ihor Zhaloba: The Development of Ukrainian Railways: the Heritage of 
the Soviet Union and new Perspectives
•       Henry Jacolin: The Access of Serbia to the Sea (1832–2006)
Lunch
15:00 to 18:30 Third Section (part I to III): After the Fall of the Iron 
Curtain: Changes – Problems – Modernisation
Part I
•       Ralf Roth: The integration of the East German Railways (Deutsche 
Reichsbahn) into the Deutsche Bahn
•       Peter F. N. Hörz and Marcus Richter: Seen from the Drivers Cabins 
View: The Process of German Railway´s Privatization since the Reunion of 
Deutsche Bundesbahn and Reichsbahn from the Engine Driver´s Perspective
Part II
•       Kevin Sutton: The Vienna Main station/Semmering base tunnel projects: 
European Union faces up its reunification
•       János Majdán: Models on Railways development in the Danubian Region 
in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Part III
•       István Neumann: The thesis of Viktor Borza Integrational Timetable – 
How Passanger Transport could be Profitable
•       Miklós Devecz: The Role and The Situation of The Private Rail Freight 
Operators in CEE – From the point of view of OKD, Doprava
Dinner
Saturday, 26 September 2009
9:00 to 12:30: Forth Section: Heritage and its Use
•       András Szendrey: Preservation of the Past of Railways – Possibilities 
of a Renewal and Inventory Taking of the Technical Heritage of Eastern Europe
•       Valcheva Rumyana: The Heritage of Bulgarian Railways
•       József Soltész: Preserved Steam Locomotives in Hungary from 1966 to 
2009
•       Rainer Mertens: The Heritage of the Deutsche Reichsbahn and its 
Presentation in the Deutsche Bahn Museum in Nuremberg
Lunch
Excursions
Departure

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