Ampflwanger Railway
| Museum train Ampflwanger Bahn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 10.4 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 19 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 180 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Ampflwanger Bahn is a standard gauge railway line in Upper Austria . With a length of 11 km, it was used as an industrial railway by Wolfsegg-Traunthaler Kohlenwerk AG until it was shut down. Since 1996 the Austrian Society for Railway History has operated a museum railway on the former line .
history
In 1920 the coal towing railway of the "Industriebahn Timelkam - Ampflwang Ges.mbH" was built under the construction management of the Gmundner company Stern & Hafferl , with a gauge of 600 mm . The route began at kilometer 253.0 from Timelkam station and left the BBÖ route at kilometer 253.7. After a large curve to the right, the Vöckla was crossed by a 16-meter-long wooden bridge, then the route ran around 11 kilometers north to Ampflwang. The smallest radius was 75 meters, the maximum gradient 40 per thousand, the highest axle pressure 3.5 t and the maximum speed was limited to 15 km / h. Former kuk Heeresfeldbahn steam locomotives of the R IIIc series were used as locomotives.
However, since the railway had reached its capacity limit after just a few years, it was converted to standard gauge in 1924, whereby on the one hand the gradient was reduced to 19 per thousand and the curve radius increased to 180 meters and, on the other hand, the Bridge over the Vöckla, which has been replaced by an iron structure with a length of 27 meters. Two Class 178 Dt-n2 locomotives were used for train service (No. 1, 1399/1925 & No. 2, 1400/1925), as well as a Hanomag Dt steam locomotive with the serial number 9976 and built in 1925.
On February 2, 1943, the railroad supervisor approved public transport on the railway line due to the war-related savings on bus and coach lines, whereby use was limited to employees, severely disabled people, schoolchildren and civil servants. In autumn 1944, locomotive No. 1 was sold to OKA Timelkam, and a Dt-h2 steam locomotive from Lokomotivfabrik Floridsdorf with No. 3 was put into service as a replacement .
State exhibition 2006
In 2006 the Upper Austrian Provincial Exhibition on Coal and Steam took place in Ampflwang. The railway line and several historic steam locomotives were one of the focal points of the exhibition , along with mining in the Hausruck region . To present the locomotives, a 21-hour roundhouse was built, which has been the heart of the permanent railway museum now in operation in Ampflwang since the end of the above-mentioned state exhibition.
Museum train
Since 1996 the route has been operated as a museum railway by the Austrian Society for Railway History . The steam and diesel trains run between the Timelkam Energie AG station and Ampflwang. Since both stations have no more tracks than the normal mainline track, the locomotive is covered in Timelkam Bahnhof and Ampflwang Museum. The world of energy can be visited in Timelkam Energie AG.
literature
- Johann Kössner: The coal railways in Hausruck . In: Eisenbahn 12/1960, Vienna