Fürstenfeld train station
| Fürstenfeld | |
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 The reception building in summer 2017
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| Data | |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | Fue |
| IBNR | 8100177 |
| opening | October 1, 1885 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Fürstenfeld |
| state | Styria |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 2 '30 " N , 16 ° 5' 2" E |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Austria | |
The station Fürstenfeld is the largest station in the Styrian town of Prince field , located in the kilometer 20.126 of the single-track Therme train at an altitude of 273 m above sea level. A. and is the system stop for all passenger trains passing there. It is located in the east of Fürstenfeld. Another stop in Fürstenfeld is the Übersbach stop at kilometer 13.210 in the southwestern district of Übersbach .
Investments
The station has three main tracks with a platform , a siding, two open loading tracks (one of which has a side ramp ), a leasing track and a track for railway service vehicles (with a locomotive workshop). The main tracks are equipped with exit light signals in both directions and are at least 266 meters long (track 1) and a maximum of 285 meters (track 3). The platforms are each 135 meters long, with platform 1 having an edge height of just 25 centimeters and island platform 2/3 having an edge height of 38 centimeters. There is no track-free access to the platforms. The maximum gradient in the station is 19.45 per thousand. Three connecting lines are connected to the station , leading to the refrigeration compressor manufacturer Nidec , the steel manufacturer Voestalpine and the warehouse.
Another connecting line, which is served by the Fürstenfeld train station, is connected between the Übersbach stop and the Fürstenfeld train station at a distance of 17.577 kilometers.
In the station Fürstenfeld is a department of ÖBB in which several railway employees are stationed. A track also leads into the office, as it houses a locomotive workshop. The reason why this is still in regular use is that two locomotives are stationed in Fürstenfeld station. The fact that there is no major base between Fehring and Friedberg apart from the Fürstenfeld train station also plays an important role.
Train traffic
passenger traffic
Regional trains run every 2 hours in both directions at Fürstenfeld station. The majority of the trains run to Fehring and Wiener Neustadt Hauptbahnhof . One or the other train in the direction of Fehring runs through to Graz Hauptbahnhof .
On Saturdays with R / REX 2756 and on Sundays and public holidays with R / REX 2756 and 2772, Fürstenfeld is also directly connected to Vienna Central Station .
However, the clock is different on Mon to Thurs, Fri, Sat and Sun. Certain trains only run on Fridays and Sundays, others only on Sundays and public holidays and certain only on weekdays. On no other day except Friday is a complete 2-hour cycle offered. For several years there have been neither amplifiers nor usable commuter trains. With the 2020 timetable, the train service was improved a little for the first time in a decade. There is unrest among the population, as it is common knowledge that the thermal baths will either be expanded or completely shut down by 2027. The future is in the stars.
Freight transport
There is only one service train pair (VG 74772/74773) which leaves Fehring on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 11:45 a.m. and arrives at Fürstenfeld station at 12:18 p.m. Departure after the various shunting activities is scheduled at 1 p.m. In 2019, scrap, wood, refrigeration compressors and heating oil were still transported. These freights were fetched from Fürstenfeld and brought back to Fehring, where they were placed in a freight train arriving at 5:00 p.m. from Szentgotthárd and continuing to Graz marshalling yard.
In the timetable year 2020, however, according to current prospects (April 2020), no service of the siding to "Kohl Eisen GmbH" is planned. This means that the biggest factor in freight transport, the transport of steel scrap, is no longer there. The delivery of heating oil and refrigeration compressors to the warehouse and the SECOP company only takes place approximately once a month. The meanwhile meager timber loading is the only reason for a regular operation of a service train. But this should also disappear in the foreseeable future. The last freight train is on the dump.
The only other train movements that do not belong to passenger traffic are some transformer trains and locomotive trains, which are on their way between Weiz or Fehring and Wiener Neustadt roughly weekly and unpredictably.
Distant past
During the Second World War, the station and railway line were targets of air raids. On October 17, 1944, the railway line between Fürstenfeld and Bierbaum was badly damaged by bombing. On February 1, 1945, Fürstenfeld station was attacked by B-17 bombers as a target of opportunity.
The connection to the Tabakfabrik Austria and the Fürstenfelder Stadtwerke was dismantled in 2013.
From 2008 to 2020, the dispatcher only served as a break room for shunting staff and conductors. The cash desk was closed in 2006 and has been empty since then. A ticket machine and the new project train station in the city in the tourist office in the city center were chosen as successors. In the first year sales were higher than expected, and the model project found imitators across Austria. At the end of 2019, the premises were restored and one wall was broken. Dispatch control and ticket counters are now one large room and since 2020 it has again been occupied by two ÖBB employees on weekdays, who are responsible for information and ticket sales.
In the years 1960 to 1970 express trains from Vienna to Graz with stops in Friedberg, Hartberg, Fürstenfeld, Fehring, Feldbach and Gleisdorf also ran through coaches to Bad Gleichenberg because of the spa and spa tourism.
In 2006/2007, numerous decommissioned locomotives of the ÖBB were scrapped by the Kohl company at Fürstenfeld station. The series 1042 , 1142 , 2062 and 2067 were affected .
Connection with the Styrian Eastern Railway
Originally, the Styrian Eastern Railway, running from Graz main train station via Fehring to Szentgotthárd, via Ilz to Fürstenfeld and via Heiligenkreuz in the Lafnitz valley to Szentgotthárd was to be built. Thus, Fürstenfeld station would have been an important junction and separation station. In the course of the objection of the city of Feldbach , the line was built via Fehring to Szèntgotthard.
Web links
- The industrial trunk line to the warehouse
- The industrial trunk line to Nidec GmbH
- The industrial trunk line to Kohl GmbH
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c description of the ÖBB operating point
- ^ Walter Brunner : Air protection and aerial warfare in Styria. Air raid protection measures outside of the state capital. In: Mitteilungen des Steiermärkisches Landesarchivs 38 (1988), pp. 71–157, here p. 92; on-line
- ^ Sonja Wagner: End of the war and beginning of the occupation on the Lafnitz border. In: Felix Tobler (Red.): Liberate - occupy - exist: Burgenland from 1945–1955; Proceedings of the symposium of the Burgenland Provincial Archives from 7./8. April 2005. Burgenland Research 90; Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government, Eisenstadt 2005, ISBN 3-901517-49-9 , p. 63
- ^ Bahnhof in der City , Exemplary Mobility Projects 2009, Verkehrsclub Österreich
- ↑ Richard Deiss: The Eskimo at the Westbahnhof: Small stories about 111 train stations in the Alpine countries. 4th edition, BoD, Norderstedt 2013, p. 24 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ For ten years: This station sells tickets even though no train stops there , Kleine Zeitung , May 31, 2017
- ^ Railway photos from Austria: Diesel locomotive scrapping in Fürstenfeld (accessed on September 14, 2017)
- ↑ Railroad photos from Austria: Vehicle scrapping in Fürstenfeld by Kohl (accessed on September 14, 2017)
- ^ Railroad photos from Austria: "I wü ned ham noch Fürstenfeld" - 1042/1142 scrap locomotives (accessed on September 14, 2017)
- ↑ Marktgemeinde Laßnitzhöhe (Hrsg.): Marktgemeinde Laßnitzhöhe. Local history. 50 years of the community - 100 years of the sanatorium - 50 years of the sports club . Brockamp-Verlag, Laßnitzhöhe 2001.