Vöcklabruck – Kammer-Schörfling railway line

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Abzw Vöcklabruck 1-chamber Schörfling
Route number : 260 01
Course book route (ÖBB) : 172
Route length: 8.196 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : D4
Power system : 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope : 22 
Minimum radius : 142 m
Top speed: 60 km / h
Route - straight ahead
from Vienna
Station, station
247,966 Vöcklabruck 435  m above sea level A.
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
250.233
2.267
Abzw Vöcklabruck 1
   
to Salzburg
Stop, stop
3.411 Oberthalheim-Timelkam
   
4,600 Pichlwang (01/18/1944 closed)
Station, station
5.814 Lenzing
   
Connection railway ( Awanst ) Lenzing AG
Stop, stop
7.301 Lenzing place
Stop, stop
8,694 Siebenmühlen-Rosenau
   
9,677 Connection railway ( Awanst ) Holzindustrie Lenzing
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
Ager
BSicon BS2 + l.svgBSicon eBS2 + r.svg
BSicon KHSTe.svgBSicon exSTR.svg
10.408 Kammer-Schörfling since June 28, 2014
BSicon .svgBSicon exKBHFe.svg
10.918 Kammer-Schörfling until April 21, 2014
The old Kammer-Schörfling station (2013)
New stop Kammer-Schörfling (2014)

The Vöcklabruck – Kammer-Schörfling (also: Kammerer Bahn , Kammerer Hansl ) railway is a single-track, electrified standard-gauge railway in Austria operated by the ÖBB .

history

ÖBB 4855 in Kammer-Schörfling station (2013)

In August 1881 Miroslav Ritter von Keißler received the concession to build a standard gauge local railway to Kammer am Attersee. After the 90-year concession expired, the railway was to become the property of the state free of encumbrances. The concessionaire was given a construction period of six months, which could not be kept. The opening of the 8.8 km long Vöcklabruck – Kammer line took place on May 1, 1882.

After the death of the concession holder, the concession was transferred to the heirs Paul Ritter von Keißler and Barbara von Keißler on March 23, 1908. As early as December 30, 1907, the heirs signed a lease and operating agreement with the state railway, which from then on ran the company for its own account.

In 1909, the terminus at Kammer was renamed to Kammer-Schörfling.

On January 1, 1939, the Kammerer Bahn was nationalized together with other local railways and became part of the Deutsche Reichsbahn , in which it was assigned to the Reichsbahndirektion Linz. In the 1940s there was a Schwanenstadt – Kammer-Schörfling train pair and a continuous evening train Linz Hbf – Kammer-Schörfling.

After the end of the Second World War , the local railway belonged to the Linz Railway Directorate of the Austrian Federal Railways. Electrical operation began on July 19, 1955. After the electrification, locomotives of the series 1073 of the Attnang-Puchheim train conveyance station were used, which were replaced by old electric locomotives of the series ÖBB 1045 after they were taken out of service. During this time the passenger trains consisted of shaped wagons .

Until the 1970s, tourism to the Attersee and industry along the route ensured brisk passenger traffic. In the following years, the frequency of the Kammerer Bahn fell sharply, in addition to the general increase in individual traffic, among other things due to the declining number of overnight stays in tourism and falling industrial employment in the catchment area of ​​the railway.

With the timetable change on June 10, 2001, the ÖBB reduced the train offer from 12 to a working pair of trains and planned to stop all passenger traffic. During the renovation of the Vöcklabruck station, which had been completed a few days earlier, the Kammerer Bahn had received its own platform.

Thanks to the commitment of the Province of Upper Austria, it was possible to avert the cessation of passenger traffic. From 2006 a second pair of trains was inserted again. With the implementation of the Vöcklabruck regional transport concept, up to five pairs of trains have been running on the route since December 2007.

The passenger transport is carried out by the ÖBB on behalf of and (partly with subsidies from the municipalities) at the expense of the State of Upper Austria and is ensured until the transport contract between the state and ÖBB expires.

In the 2011 / 2012–2013 / 2014 timetable periods, four pairs of trains ran on workdays (Monday to Friday). Between summer 2013 and summer 2014, the railcars of the ÖBB 4855 series were used on the route.

Route

The route begins in the Upper Austrian district town of Vöcklabruck . The Westbahn is also used up to the Vöcklabruck 1 junction near Oberthalheim. After that, after passing the Oberthalheim-Timelkam stop, the route runs in a south to south-westerly direction. From Lenzing the railway runs via Lenzing Ort and Siebenmühlen-Rosenau near the left bank of the Ager , which is crossed at Schörfling. Since June 2014, the new terminus with the same name Kammer - Schörfling , which is designed as a combined train and bus stop, has been located immediately afterwards at the Ager car park (near Agerstrasse) .

The old Kammer-Schörfling train station was originally 600 meters further south on the southern outskirts of Kammer and is to be removed. The railway crossed the state road B152 until 2014, then touched the warehouse and the end of the track on the Seeweg near the seaside resort Schönauer, most recently the lakeshore. There is a possibility of crossing at Lenzing train station.

Train traffic

Most of the trains of the Kammerer Bahn are connected to the long-distance Attnang-Puchheim stop , where there are connections to the Westbahn and Salzkammergutbahn to Bad Ischl and Ried im Innkreis.

Since December 14, 2014, nine pairs of trains have been running on working days. There is no passenger traffic on weekends or on public holidays.

The timetable is currently designed in such a way that all traffic can be handled with one vehicle set. A low-floor vehicle of the ÖBB 4023 series has been in use since September 2014 .

The most important customer in freight transport today is Lenzing AG with extensive track systems at the southern head of Lenzing station. Lenzing AG has its own locomotive. The plant is supplied with logs by block trains via Wels Vbf. These trains run partly with sliding locomotives , partly the trains are divided in Vöcklabruck. These trains are transported with electric locomotives of different series.

Individual evidence

  1. Reichsgesetzblatt 1881 p. 336
  2. Reichsgesetzblatt 1908 p. 190
  3. Files of the Vöcklabruck district administration in the Upper Austria regional archive (PDF; 1.2 MB)
  4. http://www.pkjs.de/bahn/Kursbuch1944/Teil5/458.jpg Reichsbahn-Kursbuch 1944
  5. ^ Franz Aschauer: From the history of the Upper Austrian railways. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Linz 1960, pp. 37-54. online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
  6. ^ Chronicle of the Seewalchen municipal office 2001
  7. Minutes of the Seewalchen municipal council meeting on March 29, 2007 (PDF; 101 kB)
  8. Timetable pictures for route 172 Vöcklabruck - Kammer-Schörfling
  9. ^ Row 4855 reactivated , Eisenbahn Österreich 4/2013, page 161
  10. Stop linking train and bus , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten. July 1, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2014. 
  11. Timetable image for route 172 Vöcklabruck - Kammer-Schörfling, timetable 2014/2015 (PDF)
  12. Ex-Haager Lies'-Tw of the ÖBB series 4855 parked. schienenweg.at, accessed on December 18, 2014 .

Web links

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