19世紀ポーランド王国における鉄道建設　－ウッジ繊維工業地帯を中心に－

Railway development is a universal phenomenon in continental Europe of nineteenth century. On the one hand, railway construction was controled by government to a greater or lesser degree, but on the other hand the government helped build the railway. In any case, the development of railways was indispensable to industrialization of the country. In the middle of nineteenth century, when the railways were being build all over Europe, there was no independent Poland. The first railway built by Poles was the Warsaw – Vienna Railway. It was a private initiative by Polish bankers, and it opened in 1845. The developing Lodz textile industry desired strongly to construct the railway to transport coal, raw materials and products in the city. But they had to wait for 20 years to get conection with railway. The efforts and actions of railway enterprizes and industrialists of the Polish Kingdom under domination by unfriendly Rusia were characteristic of the nineteenth century Poland.

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