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On these pages we want to inform you about the existence, activities and offer of services of the Club of the History of Rail Transport Prague (KHKD) and the business company HERKULES KHKD s. R. O. KHKD was founded in 1981. It deals with the rescue and repair of historic rail vehicles. The first act was the rescue and renovation of the steam locomotive 354.7152 from 1917 to an exhibitable condition. The collecting activity created its own collection of historic vehicles, which currently consists of eleven steam locomotives, three engine locomotives, three motor cars and more than 70 cars and trucks. KHKD vehicles are used for historical rides, travel agency rides, film crews and exhibitions. In addition to restoration and collecting activities, the Club organized historical train rides for railway friends, participated in the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the railway in Přerov, Prague, Kladno and Lužná and published several publications. Throughout its existence, the Club did not receive any subsidies and obtained all funds only through its own activities. Since 2005, the Central Bohemian Region has been supporting some events for the public in the form of subsidies. Since 2012, we have been successfully applying for subsidies from the Ministry of Transport under the program "Support for the renewal of historic railway rolling stock". In 1994, the Club founded the trading company HERKULES KHKD s.r.o., which provides all the services offered and, as the authorized carrier of Vlečka Kněževes, operates and maintains historic KHKD vehicles. The goal of the Club and the business company is to present historic rolling stock in operation, expand the operating fleet of historic vehicles and provide non-traditional services to customers. Since 1997, some steam locomotives and historic wagons from the KHKD collection have served as operational and non-operational exhibits in the Railway Museum in Lužná u Rakovníka. The Railway Museum has been operated by České dráhy, a.s. In 2004, KHKD took the first steps to save the Krupá-Kolešovice local in Buštěhrad. At the expense of KHKD, the Kněževes Siding was put into operation, which is connected to the ninth kilometer of the twelve-kilometer local station. The Railway Museum and the depository of KHKD exhibits have been gradually built on Vlečka Kněževes since 2004. Regular passenger transport in Kolešovka was terminated in 2006. In 2007, KHKD started the museum operation of Kolešovka - historic steam trains on Saturdays during the summer holidays. The aim of the Kolešovka project is to transform the regional state railway into a museum railway, which becomes part of the offer of railway museums and serves the operation of historic vehicles deposited in Lužná and Kněževes.