Brennersee station
| Brennersee | |
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 Brennersee station building, 2009
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 (2008) |
| opening | October 1928 |
| Conveyance | December 2008 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Home style |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Gries on the burner |
| Place / district | Lake 236 |
| state | Tyrol |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 0 '51 " N , 11 ° 30' 29" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 1351 m above sea level A. |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Austria | |
The Brennersee station was a through station that existed from October 1928 to December 2008 on the lake of the same name on the Brennerbahn . The reception building is a listed building .
A few hundred meters to the south is the independently operated Terminal Brennersee , which is the end of the rolling road from Wörgl .
construction
On October 6, 1928, the electrification of the Brenner Railway from Innsbruck with 15 kV, 16 2/3 Hz and 15 kilovolt overhead lines was completed. However, the Brenner station was electrified with the Italian power system 3600 V, 16 2/3 Hz three-phase current and two contact wires arranged horizontally next to each other . Since the Italian State Railways initially refused to electrify the Brenner station with two power systems and operate it as a joint border station, the Brennersee station was built from autumn 1927 to spring 1928. It is located 763 meters north of the state border between Austria and Italy and 1.313 kilometers from the Brenner train station.
A cost-intensive architectural peculiarity in the construction of the reception building was that a large wooden room was built first. The stone house was built on top of this lower wooden house.
Rail operations
From October 1928 to April 1934, several steam locomotives (e.g. BBÖ 170 ) were ready for operation in the Brennersee station at any time , in order to pull the trains on the short section to the Brenner station as leader locomotives . At the same time, the Brennersee railway station was the border station where Austrian passport and customs control took place.
After the Brenner station had been rebuilt several times, an island platform was put into operation there in 1933 . The electrification of these tracks was carried out with the Austrian electricity system. This ensured that the AC motors of Austrian locomotives (e.g. BBÖ 1170 , BBÖ 1670 ) were cooled. The electrification of the Brennersee to Brenner was completed on April 1, 1934. Then the Brennersee station, which had lost its function as a border station due to the expansion at the Brenner station, was to be closed and the reception building was to be converted into a residential building. However, Brennersee was retained as a stop for passenger trains and in recent decades the ÖBB has classified it as an unoccupied stop .
On December 14, 2008, the S-Bahn Tirol began operating between Innsbruck and Brenner . In the last few years of operation, the Brennersee stop was only served by individual regional trains (e.g. railcars of the ÖBB 4030 series ) and were abandoned at the 2008 timetable change .
From the former four tracks and points of the train station, the two tracks right next to the building had been removed many years before the beginning of the property. They are used as siding, e.g. B. for train sets that are used at the Brennersee terminal . An embankment provides additional protection against the trains rolling in the direction of Gries .
Railway accident
In the early morning of February 10, 2014, the southern extension of the station was damaged by a railway accident. A driverless freight train rolled downhill from the Brenner station. Since the prerequisites for carrying out the train journey were not met, the driveway was placed on the stump track at the Brennersee for safety . There there was a collision with a parked train set. This was pressed over the buffer stop and fell down the embankment in front of the station.
literature
- Günter Denoth: 150 years of railways in Tyrol. Sutton, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86680-316-9 .
- Günter Denoth: Brennerbahn and Pustertaler Bahn in around 160 historical photographs, a journey into the history of the Südbahngesellschaft Tirol. Sutton, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95400-662-5 .
- Hans Kramer: The Brenner settlement since 1918. In: Publications of the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. Volume 26/29, 1946-1949, pp. 537-554 ( PDF (8.7 MB) on ZOBODAT ).
Web links
- Brennersee station in the 1930s at www.sagen.at
- View of the station area on August 4, 2010 at www.bahnbilder.de
- View of the area with the raised butt tracks (May 2015) at www.abload.de
- Map of the Brennersee station, scale 1: 1000, at www.maps.tirol.gv.at (note: wait a few seconds to double the loading time)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frick, Wiesauer: reception building, Brennersee station. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved February 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Train accident at the Brenner Pass: Locomotives on a ghost ride. Tyrolean daily newspaper, accessed on February 3, 2019 .