Club 760
The Club 760 - Verein der Freunde der Murtalbahn , Club 760 for short, is an association founded in 1969 by railway enthusiasts at the Murtalbahn in Salzburg with the aim of maintaining the tradition of narrow-gauge railways in Bosnian gauge (760 mm). In addition to vehicles from various Austrian and old Austrian narrow-gauge railroads, locomotives in particular from the formerly extensive Yugoslav narrow-gauge networks are preserved for posterity.
As of 2012, the association's vehicle collection now includes 19 narrow-gauge locomotives and 11 cars. The association has been running museum transport on the Taurachbahn in Salzburg's Lungau since 1988 . The association's vehicle hall in Frojach-Katsch is open to visitors on various dates in summer.
Public relations for the Murtalbahn
Club 760 was founded with the aim of contributing to the maintenance of the Murtalbahn in full length, including through public relations work for the route and the steam train. The first passenger cars were procured and refurbished in order to make them available to the Murtalbahn as reinforcement cars for the now successful tourist trains.
Taurach Railway
history
The Taurachbahn was on the top in the province of Salzburg belonging Lungau lying section of the Murtalbahn of Tamsweg to Mauterndorf , which was set in 1981 after a severe damage to a bridge for economic reasons. The Club 760 association , which had set itself the goal of maintaining the full length of the Murtalbahn, succeeded in leasing the route from April 1, 1982, and repairing it from 1983 to 1987 through the voluntary work of its members that in 1988 the Taurachbahn GmbH, which he founded , was granted permission for "tourist railroad passenger transport". The Taurachbahn was opened on July 9th, 1988 and since then has been regularly used by museum trains on weekends in the summer months. Although the line still belongs to the Styrian State Railways , the Taurachbahn is an independent operation with its own ministerial operating license.
route
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Route length: | 10.6 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 760 mm ( Bosnian gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Like the Murtalbahn, the Taurachbahn, as its historic upper end, is a single-track, narrow - gauge railway with a track width of 760 mm.
The route begins at Mauterndorf train station and runs along the southern Taurach via the Gröbendorf stop to Mariapfarr train station . From there the route continues to the Lintsching stop and the St. Andrä -Andlwirt stop, which is the end of the passenger traffic. However, the Taurachbahn also includes a further section up to route km 65,650 of the Murtalbahn. In this section there is a junction which is used to topple the trains using a slight slope . This section is also used for the mutual exchange of vehicles.
The Tamsweg station is not used in scheduled tourist traffic because of the fees charged by the Styrian State Railways; however, special trains run from Mauterndorf via Tamsweg to the Murtalbahn.
Investments
There are train stations with several tracks in Mariapfarr and in Mauterndorf, where there is also a boiler house with a workshop and a wagon hall, which went into operation in 1999 and was built with the help of EU funding.
After Mariapfarr the Taurach, at Lintsching the Lignitzbach, to St. Andrä the Göriachbach and the former state road and in Wölting the Lessachbach are crossed with bridges.
The crossings of the railway with the main road at Mariapfarr station and with the state road at the Lintsching stop are secured by rail barriers that have to be closed and reopened manually by the train staff. There are also many level crossings with dirt roads and municipal roads, which are secured by speed restrictions , St. Andrew's crosses and / or stop signs .
Frojach Railway Museum
In 1977, a plot of land in Frojach was leased to create a sheltered place to park the growing vehicle collection . In the spring of the following year, the construction of the steel structure with three tracks, each 29 m long, began. The museum's track system is connected to the Murtalbahn and consists of 380 m of track and three switches.
With the inauguration of the hall on September 24, 1978, the vehicles previously parked outdoors in Murau could be relocated to their new domicile. In the first years of operation of the Taurachbahn up to the completion of the storage hall in Mauterndorf, the vehicles used there overwintered in Frojach. In 2012, five steam locomotives and a mail car were housed there.
Support of other associations and institutions
The Club 760 supports other museum railways by providing vehicle material. The club's vehicles are used on the “Flascherlzug” from Preding-Wieselsdorf to Stainz , in the Salzkammergut Local Railway Museum in Mondsee , on the Zillertal Railway and on the Třemešná ve Slezsku – Osoblaha narrow-gauge railway . Club 760 vehicles were also in use on the Waldviertel narrow-gauge railways , the Mariazellerbahn and the Thörlerbahn , which has now been closed . Vehicles from the club were also represented at the exhibition on the subject of “100 years of narrow-gauge railways in Austria” in Obergrafendorf in 1989 and the Styrian state exhibition in Knittelfeld in 1999.
Vehicle inventory
Traction vehicles
Taurach Railway | ||||||
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Company number | photo | Construction year | Acquisition | origin | Use / location | comment |
298.56
"Mariapfarr" |
1900 | 1982 | NÖLB U 6, ÖBB 298.56 | Mauterndorf | in action | |
699.01
"Lungau" |
1944 | 1973 | Heeresfeldbahn HF160D, ÖBB 699.01 | Mauterndorf | in action | |
SKGLB 12 | 1906 | 2003 | SKGLB S 12, StLB, Vehicle Museum Marxzell, Railway Museum Mondsee | Mauterndorf | in action | |
StLB 6
"Thörl" |
1893 | 1972 | StLB 6 Thörl | Mauterndorf | in action | |
CFF 764-219 | Tender locomotive, wheel arrangement D, funnel-shaped spark arrester |
1917 | 1993 | Caile Ferate Forestiere (CFF); Romanian forest railways | Mauterndorf | in action |
SKGLB D40 | 1942 | 1986 | Salzkammergut Local Railway (since 1946), StLB VL01 | Mauterndorf | in action | |
StLB VL7 | 1940 | 2017 on loan | Nassauische Kleinbahn, StLB VL7 | Mauterndorf | in action | |
X 101 | Motor rail car | 1991 | ÖBB | Mauterndorf | in action | |
VL Braubach | Small diesel locomotive | 1963 | 1980 | Braubach lead and silver smelter | Mauterndorf | in action; Gift of the regional representation of the FRG, re-tracked |
Frojach Museum | ||||||
Company number | photo | Construction year | Acquisition | origin | Use / location | comment |
SKGLB 11 | 1894 | 2011 | SKGLB 11, StLB S 11, Stainzerbahn |
Frojach | Work-up planned | |
Kh 111 | 1930 | 1976 | Feistritztalbahn, Murtalbahn | Frojach | ||
JŽ 97-029 | 1914 | 1979 | Bosnian-Herzegovinian State Railways No. IIIc5 729, JŽ 73-019 | Frojach | Loan from the Technisches Museum Wien | |
KL 2 "VL Vitty" | Small diesel locomotive | 1950 | 1980 | Schwarzenbergsäge , Unzmarkt | Frojach | Held in Frojach since 2009 after HU; formerly 700 mm track |
SLB Pinzgauer local railway | ||||||
Company number | photo | Construction year | Acquisition | origin | Use / location | comment |
JŽ 73-019 | 1913 | 1982 | Bosnian-Herzegovinian State Railway No. 169, JŽ 73-019 | Zell am See | Awarded to the Salzburger Lokalbahnen for use on the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn . | |
2091.03 | 1936 | 1990 | BBÖ | Krimml | Awarded to the Salzburger Lokalbahnen for use on the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn . | |
Others | ||||||
Company number | photo | Construction year | Acquisition | origin | Use / location | comment |
JŽ 83-076 | 1909 | Jugoslovenske Železnice (JŽ) | Jenbach | operational, awarded to Zillertalbahn as ZB 4 III | ||
JŽ 1932 | 1946 | 1989 | Jugoslovenske Železnice (JŽ) | Třemešná ve Slezsku – Osoblaha narrow-gauge railway | operational, awarded to Slezské Zemské Dráhy, Krnov / Czech Republic as U 57.001 |
dare
Taurach Railway | ||||||
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Company number | Construction year | Acquisition | origin | Location | commitment | |
Bi 37 | 1906 | 1970 | BBÖ 325, ÖBB 3625 | Mauterndorf | in operation | |
Bi 38 | 1925 | 1970 | SKGLB 563, ZB 22 | Mauterndorf | in operation | |
Bi 39 | 1892 | 1984 | ÖBB 3722, ÖBB 97201 | Mauterndorf | in operation as a bar cart | |
C 60 | 1892 | 1974 | StLB Ci 202 | Mauterndorf | in operation | |
Bi 45 | 1904 | 1995 | SGA B3 145 | Mauterndorf | in operation (summer car) | |
Bi 46 | 1904 | 1995 | SGA B3 145 | Mauterndorf | in operation (summer car) | |
D 83 | 1894 | StLB D 83 | Mauterndorf | in operation (company car) | ||
C / s 501 | 1894/2014 | StLB / SKGLB | Mauterndorf | in operation, new construction on the chassis and frame of an ex-Murtalbahn freight wagon | ||
C / s 504 | 1894/2014 | StLB / SKGLB | Mauterndorf | in operation, new construction on the chassis and frame of an ex-Murtalbahn freight wagon | ||
C / s 555 | 1894/2014 | StLB / SKGLB | Mauterndorf | in operation, new construction on the chassis and frame of an ex-Murtalbahn freight wagon | ||
C / s 559 | 1894/2014 | StLB / SKGLB | Mauterndorf | in operation, new construction on the chassis and frame of an ex-Murtalbahn freight wagon | ||
Ca / s 656 | 1928 | 2016 | SKGLB Ca / s 656, StLB Ba 74 | Mauterndorf | in operation, renovation and general inspection 2016–17 | |
G 61 | 1894 | StLB G 157 | Mauterndorf | in operation (showroom, reinforcement car), boxcar | ||
Frojach Museum | ||||||
Company number | Construction year | Acquisition | origin | Location | commitment | |
F3ho 8501 | 1932 | 2000 | BBÖ PwPost 831, ÖBB 6301, F3ho 8501 | Frojach | Post and baggage car on the Mariazellerbahn, converted into a post car in 1966, loaned | |
Stainzerbahn | ||||||
Company number | Construction year | Acquisition | origin | Location | commitment | |
Bi 31 | Stainz | in operation | ||||
Bi 32 | Stainz | in operation | ||||
Bi 33 | Stainz | in operation | ||||
Bi 34 | Stainz | in operation |
The two four-axle passenger cars Bi / 5 47 and Bi / 5 48 were added to the Stainzerbahn in 2015. These cars come from the inventory of the former Heeresfeldbahn , from a series of six built between 1940 and 1943 that had been taken over by the Austrian Federal Railways and (renovated 1963/65) were used on their narrow-gauge railways. They were built by Linke-Hoffmann-Waggonbau in Germany, weigh 13.5 tons and are equipped with auxiliary heating and 24-volt lighting. At the beginning of 1997 they came to Club 760 and from 1998 they drove on the Taurach Valley Railway.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Locomotives of Club 760 ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 11, 2012)
- ↑ History of the Taurachbahn on the pages of Club 760 ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 12, 2012)
- ^ Creation of the Frojach Museum (accessed on October 11, 2012)
- ↑ Slezské zemské dráhy ( Memento of the original of June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; the Czech route description contains a bilingual (German / Czech ) list of stations.
- ↑ Win-win situation of the Stainzer bottle train . In: Weststeirische Rundschau . No. 3, year 2015 (January 16, 2015), 88th year, ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2015, p. 1.