Kam se jezdívalo z nádraží Praha-Těšnov – Musil Stanislav (2019)

How many hurried passengers passed through the departure hall, how many tickets were issued at the ticket counters, how many half-liters of beer were poured in the restaurant, and how many liters of machine oil leaked from the steam locomotive rods onto the sleepers of the tracks at Prague-Těšnov station – no one can count that today... The nearly century-long history of this significant Prague station comes alive in this book primarily through the description of the traction arms with train schedules that departed from here. In addition to passenger trains and, in their time, express trains, the schedules of train postal services are also recorded as an integral part of the everyday color of the local operations. But the book is not only about that. The reader will also learn about the establishment of the Imperial and Royal Austrian Northwest Railway, of which the described station was a prominent face, and will find out why passengers no longer board trains here and why the dispatch building no longer stands, much to the sorrow of all railway enthusiasts. The text is accompanied by rich visual documentation. In addition to tables and diagrams of the routes, readers will see photographs from both the early and later periods of the station's existence, examples of historical timetables, old advertisements, tickets, postcards, and also images or sketches of postal cars.