Donauländebahn
The Donauländebahn is a railway line named after the Donaulände in the south of Vienna . It branches on the former station Upper Hetzendorf from the railway Vienna Penzing Vienna Meidling , the so-called junction line , and runs on the southern outskirts to the east, where it on the on the Danube Canal leading Winter Harbor Bridge in the Donauuferbahn passes. In the years of planning and construction of the bridges over the Danube Canal and Winterhafen, however, the former Kaiserebersdorf - Albern station was still the southern terminus of the Danube Bank Railway .
The Donauländebahn serves as a bypass line for the right bank of the city and is particularly important for Austrian rail freight traffic . It has two tracks between Hetzendorf and Oberlaa , then a single track eastwards. The Donauländebahn is also on the way with the high-speed route Vienna – St. Pölten , the Südbahn , the Badner Bahn , the Pottendorfer Line , the Ostbahn , the Aspangbahn and the Pressburger Bahn . It also connects the central marshalling yard Wien-Kledering and the Vienna ports to the Austrian rail network.
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In order to ensure the supply of ore from the Erzberg to the blast furnaces of the Innerberg main trade union in Klein Schwechat and also to connect various industrial companies (especially the Dreher brewery ), the Danube country railway between Ober Hetzendorf was opened on May 3, 1872, starting from the connecting railway that had been in operation since 1860 and Kaiserebersdorf and Albern respectively, which were connected to the Danube Bank Railway in 1880 via the Danube Canal and the Freudenau (winter) port . However, the Winterhafenbrücke was blown up in April 1945 and only reopened as a new building at the end of 2008. The second track was built in the section from kilometer 11.8 to kilometer 18.0 in the years 1942 to 1943 by the Deutsche Reichsbahn .
From 1898 to the First World War , the Donauländebahn was also integrated into the so-called outer network of the Vienna Steam City Railway . After that, there was only a modest amount of continuous passenger traffic until 1945. Today there is only passenger traffic on the Donauländebahn between Meidling and Blumental (to and from the Pottendorfer line) and at Kaiser Ebersdorf to and from the Pressburger Bahn. The latter is served by the S7 line of the Vienna S-Bahn and the City Airport Train (CAT).
In 2012, the construction of a new, shorter, double-track connection from the Ostbahn from Vienna Central Station to the Donauländebahn to the east began and is now in operation. The "old" existing connection leads after the Wien-Kledering central marshalling yard in a U-curve back towards Vienna and only then joins the Donauländebahn from the south in both directions. The new connection runs over a striking bridge structure, which crosses the tracks of the Ostbahn and the shunting station, and has enabled direct passenger traffic between Vienna's main train station and Vienna Airport station since the end of 2014 (long-distance traffic from western and southern Austria only since the end of 2015) . The connection begins on the east runway southwest of the central cemetery and crosses the tracks of the central shunting yard with a bridge.
Route description
The Donauländebahn begins at the Hetzendorf junction of the connecting line with the southern line or the connecting track to Vienna Meidling station. From there it runs south of the Wienerberg to the east. In Inzersdorf the Pottendorfer line branches off to the south. The following route leads between Favoriten and Oberlaa eastwards to the Ostbahn, which is crossed on a bridge, at the level of Kledering with the central shunting yard in north-south direction. The Donauländebahn then passes the Kaiserebersdorf station (formerly: Klein Schwechat ), followed by a junction to the Pressburger Bahn towards Vienna Airport and Wolfsthal . Then it swings north to the port of Vienna Albern, where it forks into the Freudenauer and Albern port railways.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Ordinance and Official Gazette for the Reichsgau Vienna, No. 98/1943, p. 89
- ↑ Connection Ostbahn - airport express train. ÖBB Infrastruktur AG, March 2015, accessed on June 23, 2016 .