Railway line Vienna Penzing – Vienna Meidling
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| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 15 kV 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dual track : | Abzw Hütteldorf 1 – Wien Meidling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Vienna Penzing – Vienna Meidling railway is a railway line in the urban area of Vienna . It connects the Wien Penzing station on the Westbahn with the Wien Meidling station on the Südbahn and is historically part of the Vienna connecting line , whose eastern extension to the Wien Praterstern station is now part of the main route of the Vienna S-Bahn .
The construction of the line was necessary because both the southern line opened in 1841 and the western line opened in 1858 each ended in terminal stations and were originally not connected to each other. To remedy this situation, Carl Ritter von Ghega built the connection discussed here, which went into operation on December 20, 1860 and was electrified between 1971 and 1974. With the opening of the Lainzer Tunnel and Vienna Central Station in 2012, it lost a lot of its importance. In the meantime, the expansion for inner-city S-Bahn traffic, including partial elevation and the construction of new stations, is being planned.
The western section of the connecting line was always of little importance for passenger traffic. This was only added in 1883, from 1898 to the First World War the line was then part of the steam-powered Vienna city and connecting railway . After a long period without local trains, it has been served by the S-Bahn since 1989. In addition, long-distance trains used to use the connection between the West and South Railway, for example the Orient Express .
description
Viewed in the direction of Salzburg, the route to Meidling branches off to the left after the Wien Penzing train station from the Westbahn and leads in a wide curve to the south. It then crosses the Vienna River in the 13th district of Hietzing . At Hietzinger Hauptstrasse in Unter-St.-Veit , the connecting curve from Vienna Hütteldorf station, which was only opened on June 28, 1883, joins the former St. Veit an der Wien station , from here the line is double-track . The station was devalued on January 22nd, 1960 to a junction and the signal box 2 abandoned; the third station track was also removed. According to current plans, which were confirmed in 2015, a new S-Bahn stop will soon be built at the intersection of the connecting railway with Hietzinger Hauptstraße. The Lainz stop once existed a few hundred meters south of it .
The completion of the lane plan signal box in Maxing station made it possible to use the previously manually operated barrier systems Auhofstraße, Hietzinger Hauptstraße (each on January 19, 1979), Veitingergasse, Jagdschlossgasse (each on February 2, 1979), Versorgungsheimstraße and Speisinger Straße (each on January 23, 1979). February 1979) to switch to automatic mode. At the first three level crossings, the closing process takes place in a travel-controlled manner through switch-on points, the others are switched on in a route-controlled manner. All barrier systems except for those in Veitingergasse and Speisinger Straße close offset - this means that of the two barrier booms that are located one behind the other for road traffic, the front one lowers first and only then the rear one, which makes it more difficult to lock vehicles in.
This is followed by an arc to the east and the Speising stop used for passenger traffic at Speisinger Strasse or Lainzer Strasse. From 2006-2011 there was a loading track for excavated material from the Lainzer Tunnel , which was opened with the timetable change on December 9, 2012 and has taken up the considerable freight traffic on the route, and since December 2015 all long-distance traffic to the main train station .
Maxing station follows for freight trains. The central interlocking of the type DrS was put into operation on December 14th 1978 and also replaced the mechanical interlocking St. Veit an der Wien and the block post St. Veit 1. The total cost of the construction amounted to 48 million schillings.
In Maxing, according to current plans, a new S-Bahn stop is also to be built at the Stranzenbergbrücke (a road bridge over the railway line near Atzgersdorfer Strasse, the border between Speising and Hetzendorf ).
The route now changes at Kernstrasse, where there used to be a narrow bridge over the railway, eastwards to the 12th district of Vienna, Meidling , and partly runs through the tunnel. The route that used to run above ground with two level crossings over Schönbrunner Allee was abandoned in the first half of the 1970s. Shortly before the Wien Meidling train station is reached on the Südbahn, heading northeast, the Donauländebahn branches off to the southeast at Hetzendorfer Friedhof to the Winterhafenbrücke .
gallery
The route on the Vienna local traffic map from October 1926
Excerpt from the timetable from October 3, 1926
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literature
- Peter Wegenstein: The connecting lines in the Vienna area , series "Bahn im Bild" No. 79. Pospischil publishing house, Vienna 1991.
- Wolfgang Zenker: Reconstruction of the Hütteldorf-Meidling connection line . Thesis. Vienna University of Technology, Vienna 1984.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology: Federal Transport Infrastructure Expansion Plan 2013–2018 (PDF; 202 kB)
- ↑ Automation of barriers on the Vienna connecting railway , in: ÖBB-Journal , No. 1/1979, p. 14
- ^ Bahnhof Maxing: New central signal box , in: ÖBB-Journal No. 1/1979, p. 26