Freiland – Türnitz railway line

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Freiland-Türnitz
Route length: 9.242 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope : 15  ‰
Minimum radius : 143 m
Top speed: 55 km / h
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 from Kernhof
Station without passenger traffic
 0.0 Outdoors 405.5  m above sea level A.
   
 to Traisen
   
 2.970 Lehenrotte 422  m above sea level A.
   
 3,637 Prinztaltunnel (132 m)
   
 3.905 Moosbach tunnel (32 m)
   
 4.203 Moosbach 430  m above sea level A.
   
 6.093 Dickenau 438  m above sea level A.
   
 6.261 Dickenau Tunnel (154 m)
   
 9.242 Türnitz 457  m above sea level A.

The Freiland – Türnitz railway line is a now disused branch line in Lower Austria . The approximately 9 km long branch line began in open land and followed the Türnitz Traisen upstream.

history

Freiland station with a train arriving from Türnitz (1909)
Diesel multiple unit in Türnitz station (1991)

As early as 1896, the property owner Stephan Lukacs and the building contractor Th. Lininger applied in Vienna to obtain the definitive concession for a standard gauge local railway from Schrambach to Türnitz . The first preparatory work for the railway construction was carried out in autumn 1901, the actual basis for the railway construction was the concession document of November 6, 1907 , as part of the Lower Austrian State Railways , assuming that the line to Mariazell would be extended. The line was opened on October 24, 1908, but the kkStB was commissioned with the management at the expense of the owners. The planned extension to the Mariazellerbahn was not built and the line was handed over to the BBÖ retrospectively on January 1, 1921, and redeemed by the federal government on January 1, 1935.

At the beginning of the 1960s, the route was converted to diesel traction, most recently class 5047 railcars were used. It was discontinued on June 3, 2001, and a cycle path was laid out on the route.

literature

  • Hans Sternhart, Friedrich Slezak, Josef O. Slezak: Lower Austrian Southwest Railways. Leobersdorf, Hainfeld, St. Pölten, Traisen, Kernhof / Türnitz, Wittmannsdorf, Piesting, Gutenstein, Pöchlarn, Scheibbs, Kienberg-Gaming . International Archive for Locomotive History, Volume 25. Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-900134-35-9 .
  • Peter Wegenstein, Heinz Albrecht: Railways between the southern and western lines. The Leobersdorf - St. Pölten, Traisen - Kernhof and Freiland - Türnitz routes . Bahn im Bild, Volume 75, ZDB -ID 52827-4 . Pospischil publishing house, Vienna 1990.
  • Wolfdieter Hufnagl: The Lower Austrian State Railways . transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-71214-8 .
  • Karl Wildberger, Harald Dorner: Standard gauge local railways in the Lower Austrian Alpine foothills . Railway-Media-Group, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902894-14-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volkswirthschaftliche Zeitung. (...) Localbahnproject Schrambach-Türnitz. In:  Das Vaterland , No. 321/1886 (XXVII. Year), November 21, 1886, p. 7, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / possibly.
  2. ↑ a b Wolfdieter Hufnagl: Die Niederösterreichische Landesbahnen , Transpress-Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-71214-8 , p. 164
  3. ↑ RGBl. 1907/251
  4. ↑ RGBl. 1924/365
  5. ↑ RGBl. 1934/393