Aschach Railway

Aschach Railway
5047 027 in Aschach an der Donau station (1993)
Course book route (ÖBB) :	152
Route length:	20.5 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	17  ‰
Minimum radius :	171 m
Top speed:	65 km / h
Legend Passau Railway from Wels 0.000 Haiding 320  m above sea level A. Passau Railway to Passau 2.529 Breitwiesen 5.298 Finklham 289  m above sea level A. Innbach 6,862 Breitenaich 7,066 EK B 134 8.386 Lime Kilns-Daxberg 277  m above sea level A. 10,551 Lahöfen Linz local railway from Peuerbach 12,524 Eferding 271  m above sea level A. Linz local railway to Linz 12.738 EK B 134 14.739 Leumühle 16,980 Pupping 271  m above sea level A. 18,471 Karling 18,520 EK B 130 18,558 Aschach 19.733 Arthofer connecting railway ( Awanst ) 19,953 Runway 20,500 Aschach on the Danube 274  m above sea level A. Siding Agrana

The Aschacher Bahn is a standard-gauge regional line that branches off the Wels – Passau line at the Haiding station . It usually descends 20 km further north to the Danube, which it reaches at Aschach . It crosses the electrified line of the Linz local railway in the station of the district town Eferding , which was opened in 1912 by the local railway AG Linz – Eferding – Waizenkirchen . It is single-track and not electrified.

history

The builder and owner was the local railway company Wels-Aschach , founded by the city of Wels , which opened the line on August 20, 1886 for the locomotive railway from Wels (Haiding) to Aschach an der Donau on the basis of the concession document of October 10, 1885 . The operation was led by the respective state railway from the beginning. After the construction of the line from Wels via Sattledt to Unterrohr (later the Almtalbahn ), the company operated as Welser Lokalbahn  AG. The trains started and ended in Wels . Until the complete double-track expansion of the Passau wing of the Westbahn, the local railway already had its own track from Wels to Haiding. The Wels Puchberg (formerly Puchberg near Wels) stop on this section was served by the regional trains of the Aschacher Bahn until it was closed.

In Aschach on August 1, 1894, a 0.8 km long towing railway was added, which led from the station to the Danube area. From 1898 to 1914 and 1932 to 1937, it also served as a feeder for passenger traffic to the Danube. In 1958/59 it was converted by Donaukraftwerke  AG (DoKW) Aschach into an access route to the power plant.

In 1942 the Deutsche Reichsbahn - as the state railway at that time - became the owner of the previous Welser Lokalbahn AG, including the Aschacher Bahn. After the Second World War, it was operated by the Austrian Federal Railways . Since December 9, 2007, freight traffic has been managed by Stern & Hafferl . Nowadays, the route is only important for freight traffic (including to the Agrana corn starch factory in Aschach). Passenger traffic was always poorly developed in this area - until May 2000 there were seven pairs of trains during the week and four at the weekend. Since then, all courses, with the exception of one pair of trains in the morning, have been run with buses, which also go to places that are not in the catchment area of ​​the railway.

Since July 1, 2008, another pair of trains has been running in the summer months on weekends and afternoons.

On January 1, 2021, the route will be taken over by the state of Upper Austria . The integration into the Linz local railway or the operational management by Stern & Hafferl are in the room. After the takeover, a ten-kilometer stretch will be electrified . It is also considered to renovate the Eferding station. With the timetable change on December 15, 2019, all passenger traffic between Haiding and Aschach an der Donau was suspended.

vehicles

Typical locomotives on this route were the locomotives of the series 2060 , 2062 and 2067 (most recently also 2043 and 2048 ) in freight traffic , as well as the railcars of the series 5070 , 5081 and finally 5047 in passenger traffic .

Today the two locomotives of the series 2016 from Stern & Hafferl handle the freight traffic.

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  Pupping stop

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  The R 3237 train enters the Leumühle stop

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  Bridge over the Aschach

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  Eferding station

Web links

Commons : Aschacher Bahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Current timetable of the ÖBB

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} RGBl. 152/1885
2. ↑ ÖBB and the state are investing 725 million euros. In: ooe.orf.at. July 2, 2019, accessed July 2, 2019 . 
3. ^ Upper Austrian news: Linzer Lokalbahn wants to integrate the Aschacher Bahn . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on December 17, 2017]).
4. ↑ Almtalbahn, Mühlkreisbahn and Hausruckbahn continue to run. In: liferadio.at. October 8, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 . 
5. ↑ bahnbilder.warumdenn.net picture from StH 2016.911 in Haiding on the Aschacher Bahn