English Translation

The development of the company Protectoratsbahnen Bohemia and Moravia in the fiscal year 1940 was characterized by a further significant increase in performance and by a corresponding improvement in financial results, which contributed to the further strengthening of the economic situation of the enterprise. The introduction of the protectorate railways into the transport-related tasks of the Grossdeutsche Gesamtraum, which had already begun in 1939, was significantly promoted in 1940 by the progressive unification of railway traffic rights and by the inclusion of the Protectorate in the Reich customs area. In this year, the Czech and Moravian protectorate railways also became members of the "Association of Central European Railway Administrations"; after twenty years of absence, they returned to the natural environment of railway administrations, where their network was once established and developed. This progressive integration made it possible for the protectorate railways to fulfil the great tasks of the war imposed upon them by the Reich. The railway line in the Protectorate had a considerable part to play in the transport services required for the advance of the German armies in the east and west. Nevertheless, it was possible to operate the internal economic life in such a way that the enormous war happening did not disturb its regular course any more than was inevitably necessary. This was not least made possible by the rapidly growing understanding and sacrifice of the protectorate-railway service, which mastered the difficult tasks in close cooperation with the German Reichsbahn and the other Reich services. The development of the revenue remained favourable in 1940. In passenger and baggage transport, revenues increased by 49.03 %, with 805.783 million K, against 540.678 million K in 1939.In freight transport (2,068.956 million K) were taken up against 1,509.935 million K by 1939, i.e. 37.04 % more. The other income - which for the first time also offset the compensation for services for the DR - increased by 47.15 % from 132.570 million K in 1939 to 195.075 million K by 1940. The amount of traffic taxes granted to the company in favour of the operating result, which in 1939 amounted to 217.499 million. K was increased by 44.09 % to 313.390 million K according to the higher traffic revenues. The total income of the operating invoice was thereafter in 1940 with 3,383.205 million K against 2,400.682 million K in 1939 by 40.92 % above the result of the previous year. The financial year's transport revenues were decisively influenced by the larger transport services that were provided to the protectorate railways in both internal and transit traffic. In addition, tariff increases and the abolition of certain previously existing tariff reductions in favour of the results had an impact. The total cost of the operating invoice, which in addition to the costs of operating the protective railways, also includes expenditure on the maintenance of railway installations and vehicles. the cost of depreciation and depreciation, as well as 3.1.