Donauuferbahn (Wachau)

Krems on the Danube – Mauthausen
Devil's Wall south of Spitz
Route number (ÖBB) :	172 01
Course book route (ÖBB) :	133 (St. Valentin – St. Nikola-Struden) 811 (Krems ad Donau – Emmersdorf ad Donau)
Route length:	107.950 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C4 (Krems – Spitz) B2 (Spitz – Grein Bad Kreuzen) C4 (Grein Bad Kreuzen – Mauthausen) D4 (Mauthausen – St. Valentin)
Maximum slope :	22  ‰
Minimum radius :	173 m
Legend from Absdorf-Hippersdorf ( Kremser branch of the Franz-Josefs-Bahn ) 0.000 Krems at the Donau 196  m above sea level A. to Herzogenburg and Sankt Pölten (Western Railway) 1,580 Krems Campus Art Mile 1.928 Goldberg Tunnel (569 m) 2,580 Steiner Tunnel (206 m) 3.019 Stein - Mautern 4.209 Rothenhof Tunnel (77 m) 5.130 Unterloiben 6.810 Dürnstein -Oberloiben 6,971 Schlossberg tunnel (569 m) 7.609 Dürnsteiner Tunnel (121 m) 12,333 Weißenkirchen in the Wachau 14.475 Wösendorf - Joching 16.387 Sankt Michaeler Tunnel (77 m) 18.056 Spitz an der Donau train station 205  m above sea level A. 18,903 Pointed tunnel (100 m) 19.2 Secret Annex (abandoned September 2, 1947) 19,587 Teufelsmauer tunnel (12 m) 20,954 Schwallenbach 23,400 Willendorf in the Wachau 26,088 Aggsbach Market 30.993 Grimsing 34.050 Emmersdorf on the Danube 238  m above sea level A. 35.2 Melk taxi ferry (abandoned December 15, 1974) 37.415 Sankt Georgener Tunnel (57 m) 37.984 Weitenegger Tunnel (159 m) 38.288 Weitenegg (PV until October 4th, 2009) approx 38.7 Beginning of removed section 40.106 Lehen - Ebersdorf (PV until October 4th, 2009) 43.206 Klein-Pöchlarner Tunnel (209 m) 43,921 Klein-Pöchlarn (PV until October 4th, 2009) 48,412 Marbach - Maria Taferl (PV until October 4th, 2009) 48.696 Schallmarbacher Tunnel (156 m) 48.963 Marbach tunnel (202 m) 49.289 Trausinger Tunnel (34 m) 52,481 Loja 54.965 Persenbeug (PV until October 4th, 2009) 230  m above sea level A. 55.671 Persenbeuger Tunnel (345 m) 56.4 Persenbeug Dam (abandoned June 1, 1958) 59,300 End of removed section 60.171 Weins - Isperdorf (PV until October 4th, 2009) Ysper Lower Austria / Upper Austria 65.230 Hirschenau - Nöchling (PV until October 4th, 2009) 67.650 Small Sarmingstein Tunnel (41 m) 68.112 Sarmingstein (until Dec. 14, 2019) 243  m above sea level A. 68,413 Great Sarmingstein Tunnel (143 m) 70.866 Sankt Nikola - Struden 252  m above sea level A. 71.170 Dürnbach Viaduct 72.910 Giessenbach Viaduct 74,300 Greiner Tunnel (30 m) 75,152 Greinerbach Viaduct (68 m) 75.487 Grein city 77.056 30.894 Grein - Bad Kreuzen train control station 27.239 27.262 Error profile (−23 m) 25.945 Dornach 231  m above sea level A. 23.260 Saxen Klambach 20,000 Baumgartenberg 235  m above sea level A. 15.943 Arbing 243  m above sea level A. 12,599 Auhof (closed June 1, 1995) 10.934 Perg school center 9.817 Perg 245  m above sea level A. 7.481 Connecting railway VÖR 6.532 Aisthofen 6.093 Kamig railway siding 4,820 Schwertberg 250  m above sea level A. 3.466 Hödlmayr connection railway 0.610 Waldner connecting railway from České Budějovice (formerly KEB ) 0.000 Mauthausen to St. Valentin (formerly KEB ) seasonal excursion traffic through NÖVOG regular passenger traffic through ÖBB-PV

The Donauuferbahn is a railway line in Austria and runs from Sankt Valentin to Krems , mostly along the Danube .

The section between Krems and Emmersdorf an der Donau leads through the Wachau, which is why the Donauuferbahn in this area is also called the Wachau Railway or Wachau Railway and is part of the Wachau World Heritage Region as a cultural monument .

history

A railway line leading westward from Vienna was originally intended to be routed largely along the Danube, from Stockerau on the left bank of the Danube via Krems, Spitz, Perg to Linz, but the relevant plans were discarded. Ultimately, a route through the Vienna Woods was implemented in the form of the Empress Elisabeth Railway, which opened in 1858 (today the Western Railway ). The section from Sankt Valentin to Mauthausen the Donauuferbahn was 1872-1956 part of Sankt Valentin according Gaisberg Vartberg and continue to Freistadt and Budweis leading Summerauer track that in the first years after its construction to the route network of the Empress belonged Elisabeth Railway.

On April 3, 1897, the concession for the Mauthausen – Grein local railway was granted, and on July 4, 1898, it was opened. The railway line to Krems was expanded in the following years. It was opened to public transport in 1909. Via the connection to Absdorf-Hippersdorf to the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahn , established in 1872 , the Donauuferbahn had a connection to Vienna to the Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof . During the construction work on August 7, 1908 , a Stone Age figure was found near Willendorf, which subsequently became known as Venus von Willendorf .

In 1930 the local railways Mauthausen-Grein and Krems-Grein were nationalized and in 1939 incorporated into the Deutsche Reichsbahn . After the Second World War were the State Austria belonging to Austrian Federal Railways owner of the railway line.

Developments since 2000

While individual sections were rarely used or not driven at all, the number of passengers from Grein to the west and in the vicinity of Krems increased at the beginning of the 21st century. With the Ennsdorf loop , a direct connection of the Danube Bank Railway from Mauthausen to Enns was created in 2005 . This shortened the travel time to Linz and made changing trains in Sankt Valentin superfluous.

After the anniversary “100 years of the Wachau Railway” aroused no interest from ÖBB, municipalities and other official organizations, a private initiative organized an anniversary offer that included the entire route from Grein to Krems in a year-round program. The aim was not only to address the visitors at the respective event locations, but also to familiarize the residents along the route with the history of the railway. In addition, articles appeared in a regional free newspaper. Additional articles in specialist magazines as well as national and local media, including the ORF , ensured that topics were present throughout the year.

For the main exhibition, which opened on April 17, 2009, Spitz and its shipping museum were won over. The next special exhibition was opened in May in the Greiner City Museum; Weissenkirchen followed in June with the exhibition Landscape around 1900 in the Wachau . In a wagon in Stein-Förthof with the participation of the Lower Austrian Military History Society, further topics were presented, in particular the military aspect and the current rock fall near Dürnstein. There were other exhibitions in Klein-Pöchlarn and Persenbeug. Events such as the "Memorial Day", a specialist lecture at the HTL Krems and a seminar at the Danube University Krems on the subject of the revitalization of abandoned or abandoned railway lines with their construction objects at home and abroad accompanied the exhibitions.

The anniversary year ended with a festival symposium on December 4, 2009 at the smallest and youngest train station on the 77 km long route. Exactly 100 years after the first scheduled train ran, the festival symposium “100 Years of the Wachau Railway” took place at the Danube University Krems. In addition to representatives of state politics and experts from the areas of traffic and spatial planning, experts from the Wachau and its special features were invited as speakers.

Until 2009 the Donauuferbahn was used in summer by the two tourist adventure trains “Wachau” and “Strudengau”, which were the last remaining trains on the entire route and the only passenger trains on the route between Emmersdorf an der Donau and Sarmingstein .

In January 2010, the state of Lower Austria decided to take over the Lower Austrian section of the Danube Bank Railway together with some other (partly already closed) railway lines from the ÖBB. A continuation of the rail traffic was not intended, however. Scheduled traffic was discontinued for the timetable change on December 12, 2010 on the entire route and replaced by buses, and a 34 km long section of the Danube Bank Railway between Krems and Emmersdorf will remain for tourism and nostalgia traffic.

In September 2010, a party-political controversy arose over a purchase offer addressed to the state of Lower Austria, which, among other things, concerned the maintenance and modernization of the railway in Lower and Upper Austria.

Passenger traffic between St. Nikola-Struden and Sarmingstein was discontinued with the timetable change on December 15, 2019.

Structures of the Donauuferbahn

The alignment was carried out above the high water marks from 1889. Located consistently higher than the parallel road, the railway was therefore also more flood-proof than this. Remarkable engineering structures were built, and in the course of their construction more than 1.6 million cubic meters of rock had to be moved, mostly by blasting. 18 tunnels and 14 large bridges were built over side valleys of the Danube tributaries. The numerous stone buildings were supplemented by iron structures.

In the vicinity of Spitz the only 12.43 meter long Teufelsmauertunnel was built, the shortest railway tunnel of the ÖBB .

For the first time in the history of railway construction, monument protection and landscape conservation were factors that were equally weighted alongside material interests. Wherever possible, emphasis was placed on preserving the historic town centers. The architect and painter Rudolf Pichler took part in all construction negotiations on behalf of Archduke Franz Ferdinand . To protect the environment, an inventory was made of the conditions before and after the construction of the railway. Environmentally friendly measures for the routing were illustrated with praise, the inevitable destruction of atmospheric corners and picturesque courtyards lamented and covered with photographs. As early as 1906, the project was shown at the international transport exhibition in Milan next to the Mariazell Railway as a pioneering achievement in Austrian engineering.

In 1998 the railway line between Emmersdorf and Krems was placed under protection as a cultural monument. It is also part of the Wachau cultural landscape , which was added to the list of UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage in 2000 .

Railway stations and stops

• Krems an der Donau station
• Persenbeug station: The station, which has existed since the line opened in 1909, was closed in 2000 and served only as a stop until the Danube bank line between Sarmingstein and Spitz was finally closed on October 4, 2009. In previous years, the station was frequented by up to ten passenger trains and up to four freight trains per day. Persenbeug was also the location of the Krems route management, which included railway foremen, track managers, chancellery officials, route walkers and railway maintenance officers (superstructure). Sixty railway officials and two non-tenured people were employed at Persenbeug station. Even before the station was closed, the maintenance of the upper structure was relocated to another station and the goods store was closed.
• Campus Krems - Art Mile Krems is the name of the youngest stop on the Danube Bank Railway, which opened in 2002.

bridges

Seven-arched viaduct over the Gießenbach near Grein, a listed building since 2012

• Ysperdorf , at 32 meters the longest bridge on the Danube Bank Railway , which was built as an iron structure.

Viaducts

• Emmersdorf (viaduct with eight arches over the valley cut of Emmersdorf, landmark of the place)
• Granz (viaduct with six arches; was closed except for the road passage)
• Grein (viaduct with seven arches over the Gießenbach at the entrance of the Stillensteinklamm , highest overpass between Sankt Valentin and Vienna)

In autumn 2012, six of the viaducts of the Danube Bank Railway between Grein and St. Nikola an der Donau that were built at the beginning of the 20th century were placed under monument protection. They are rare evidence of the construction and design of bridges and are of particular historical and cultural importance for both places.

tunnel

In the course of the Donauuferbahn, 18 tunnels with a total length of 3,106.19 meters were built between Mauthausen and Krems:

East portal of the Schlossberg tunnel with a memorial plaque.

• Greiner tunnel, 30 meters
• Large Sarmingstein Tunnel, 142.80 meters
• Small Sarmingstein Tunnel, 40.75 meters
• Persenbeuger tunnel, 344.73 meters
• Trausinger Tunnel, 34.30 meters
• Marbach tunnel, 201.80 meters
• Schallmarbacher Tunnel, 156 meters
• Klein Pöchlarner Tunnel, 209 meters
• Weitenegger Tunnel, 159.30 meters
• St. Georgen tunnel, 56.55 meters
• Teufelsmauer tunnel, 12.43 meters
• Pointed tunnel, 99.63 meters
• St. Michael tunnel, 77.31 meters
• Dürnstein tunnel, 120.70 meters
• Schlossberg Tunnel, 568.89 meters
• Rothenhof Tunnel, 76.70 meters
• Steiner Tunnel, 206.30 meters
• Goldberg Tunnel, 569 meters

Route sections

Enns to Mauthausen

Loop Ennsdorf

Since December 12, 2005, the Ennsdorf loop has been a connection from Mauthausen to Ennsdorf or Enns, another connection between the Donauuferbahn and the Westbahn. As a result, the travel time from the train stations in the Perg district could be reduced significantly. In addition, Park & ​​Ride facilities were built in the Perg district.

The measures are part of the Perg regional transport concept. Among other things, additional train sets were purchased for the Danube shore line in the Perg district and the connection to Linz and an hourly service was set up, which is increased to half-hourly during rush hour. The train connections originally established between Sarmingstein and Linz have only existed as far as St. Nikola-Struden since 2009. A transport service contract between the state of Upper Austria and the ÖBB guarantees the financing until 2017.

Mauthausen to Grein (Machlandbahn)

Share over 200 kroner in the Mauthausen-Grein local railway on November 1, 1897

Desiro in Mauthausen

Planning for the Machland Railway from Mauthausen to Grein began as early as 1888, and at the end of January 1889 the completed route revision was reported for the planned route

On April 3, 1897, the license was issued to Karl Berger (property owner, Schwertberg), Leopold Heindl (mayor and state parliament member, Mauthausen) and Alfred Heinzel (notary, Perg). Construction began in May 1897 and was opened on July 3, 1898. Originally, the line was to be equipped for a maximum speed of 25 kilometers per hour. Construction of the railway began in Perg, with the station building being the first to be built. About 600 workers, all Italians, were employed in the construction of the railway.

The standard gauge, 30.9 kilometers long local railway originally had stations in Schwertberg, Perg, Arbing, Saxen and Grein as well as stops in Aisthofen, Auhof and Dornach and had a gradient of no more than ten per thousand. From July 4, 1898, three trains ran daily between Mauthausen and Grein. Until 1909 the railway was subordinate to the State Railway Directorate Linz.

The Donauuferbahn is enjoying increasing numbers of passengers on this section of the route. The use of modern train sets, the construction of the Ennsdorf loop, the modernization of the train stations and stops as well as the increase in the number of train connections to the central area have all made it more attractive.

With the help of the Province of Upper Austria, tracks and points were successively renewed in the Upper Austrian part between Mauthausen and Sarmingstein, the stations made barrier-free and security measures improved. The investment volume is € 23 million, in 2010 the train stations in Arbing, St. Nikola an der Donau and Grein-Stadt were modernized, in 2011 the train stations Grein-Bad Kreuzen and Saxen followed and in 2012 Mauthausen and Perg. The work will be carried out with a Park & ​​Ride System for 40 cars and 50 bicycle and moped parking spaces in Perg completed in 2013.

Grein to Krems

Railcar train with 5146 on the viaduct in St. Nikola. (1987)

The local railway project Krems – Grein received the pre-concession in 1898 and after the settlement of financing problems in 1905 the concession for the line. Various connection options, including a planned extension of the Schwarzenau – Zwettl – Martinsberg local railway to the Danube, and cog railway to Maria Taferl and to the Jauerling , were not implemented. On December 2, 1909, the 77.06 kilometer long local railway started operating. In Krems there was a connection to the Franz-Josefs-Bahn .

The route along the Danube through the landscapes of Strudengau , Nibelungengau and Wachau leads through 18 tunnels and over 14 bridges. The railway line was built to be suitable for floods at a distance of 200 to 1000 meters from the Danube and was the only means of transport that could also be used during the multiple flood disasters. Another advantage of this railway line was the train control operation , which made it possible for only one dispatcher to be able to coordinate operations on the entire route from his location in Spitz station. The railway gets by without signals and interlockings. By using fallback switches , the departing train itself sets the switches that move back to the basic position after passing the train.

The condition of the route infrastructure in the section between Grein or Sarmingstein and Spitz posed a problem for many years with numerous slow-speed sections because the trains were only allowed to travel at 20 to 30 kilometers per hour. This led to an increase in travel time for the adventure trains by around 30 minutes. Since the end of 2009 this section of the route has not been used despite the concerns of regional politicians and the tourism industry. The last scheduled passenger train between Sarmingstein and Emmersdorf ran on October 4, 2009. With the timetable change on December 15, 2019, all train traffic between Sarmingstein and St. Nikola-Struden was discontinued. The Donauuferbahn to St. Nikola-Struden will be electrified by 2030.

In April 2011, the route east of Sarmingstein at the small Sarmingstein tunnel near the Upper Austrian-Lower Austrian border was interrupted by a notice board because a few meters later the superstructure is so desolate that it is no longer possible to drive safely. The efforts of a non-partisan initiative to maintain the Danube bank line have so far been unsuccessful. The costs for the rehabilitation of the section would amount to four million euros, whereby a concept for the use of EU funds for the revitalization of the Danube embankment is to be drawn up. These investments are mainly necessary for the superstructure, which has been neglected for years, on some sections (e.g. Loja-Weins-Isperdorf). However, the infrastructure between Loja and Emmersdorf is in good condition and can be driven continuously at 40 km / h.

In May 2013, freight traffic was resumed in the approximately 8 km long section Sarmingstein / Upper Austria – Weins-Isperdorf / Lower Austria and investments were made in the relevant station. Since then, Rail Cargo Austria has been running several pairs of freight trains per week for timber transports for a forestry company.

Wachau Railway

On the section between Krems an der Donau and Emmersdorf an der Donau , the Donauuferbahn is also called the Wachau Railway or Wachau Railway . The railway line was opened in 1909.

As of May 2006, the line between Spitz and Aggsbach Markt was closed because, according to ÖBB, the quarry to Spitz posed too great a danger to train traffic. Voices were loud that this only served as a pretext not to have to run any more trains on the deficit route, especially when the block was temporarily lifted for a freight train due to a construction site on the Danube bank railway near Mauthausen. After the ÖBB and the state of Lower Austria had agreed to split the costs, the quarry was renovated and the Wachau Railway was able to resume traffic in May 2007.

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  Regional train with locomotive series 2143 in Spitz an der Donau (1988)

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  Aggsbach Market (2004)

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  Stein-Mautern station (2007)

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  Wiesel locomotive at Emmersdorf station (2012)

On September 7, 2007, the railway at the quarry in Spitz had to be closed again after heavy rainfall (geological report) and a replacement rail service was set up. Soft rock was removed during the winter months. After tough negotiations with the responsible authorities and the Austrian Federal Railways, the company was able to resume on May 1, 2008. The trains ran between Krems an der Donau station and Spitz and Emmersdorf in the Wachau on a regular basis until 2009, although much more in the summer Trains than went in winter.

The 2009 timetable saw further deterioration: the travel time between Krems and Spitz was extended by up to 18 minutes on some trains and the attractive regular service was no longer sustainable due to the poor track infrastructure. On July 8, 2009, the section between Dürnstein and Spitz an der Donau was closed again due to a rock fall due to high rainfall . The rail replacement service that was subsequently set up between the Dürnstein-Oberloiben (partly also Krems an der Donau) and Spitz an der Donau stations was canceled on December 14, 2009 and rail operations resumed.

The section from Krems to Emmersdorf has been continued as a seasonal tourism company since it opened on April 16, 2011 by NÖVOG and under the management of Wiener Lokalbahnen . For this purpose, a train set was redesigned in a graffiti design. There are now three pairs of trains running every day on summer weekends. Since a flood of the Danube in January 2011, when the bus connections failed, the state of Lower Austria has been considering using the train as a substitute means of transport if the bus connections fail.

Critics also fear the loss of the Wachau UNESCO World Heritage award , in which the railway is an integral part. In June 2011, rockslides occurred again in the same places as in 2009, which also tore an excavator that was still busy with safety work into the depths, so that the railway had to be closed again for a week.

The vehicles, an ÖBB 2043 with Schlieren car , received a new color scheme in gold and gray in 2012.

In February 2013, the lengthy renovation and safety work due to rockfalls along the railway near Dürnstein, which repeatedly led to the closure and also affected Donau Strasse , was completed.

In the first quarter of 2016, Niederösterreichische Verkehrsorganisationsgesellschaft (NÖVOG) bought five used vehicles from the RegioSprinter series from the German Vogtlandbahn . The first test drives took place in March 2016.

In June 2017, the decision to shut down the infrastructure between Weins-Isperdorf and Emmersdorf was issued. This shows that the railway systems must be removed by 2019 and that all tunnels must be walled up. The former continuous railway connection St. Valentin – Krems is permanently interrupted. Parts of the population fought against the dismantling of the railway and founded the citizens' initiative "Save the Danube Bank Railway". She held discussions with potential partners and customers in order to initiate freight traffic in the affected section and thereby prevent the demolition. An online petition was also launched, which was signed by around 2,700 people. But the efforts were unsuccessful. In the meantime there have already been talks between NÖVOG and interested parties for the land that is now becoming available.

The demolition work began at the end of May 2018 east of Weins-Isperdorf. The demolition of the 16 km track structure costs 1.6 million euros - according to NÖVOG, renovation of the affected section would have cost at least 25 million euros.

On the national holiday, October 26th, 2018, a set of around 50 excursion guests on the Wachau Railway collided with a car at an open level crossing between Weißenkirchen in der Wachau and Dürnstein . The car was dragged along for about 50 meters, the passenger died at the scene of the accident despite immediate medical first aid, and the driver, seriously injured, had to be taken to the accident hospital in St. Pölten in a helicopter. The train driver and the travelers on the Wachau Railway were unharmed.

Accidents

See: List of railway accidents in Austria

1997 2 regional trains collided near Arbing - 94 injured.

2002 met on a blind curve at Ebersdorf a freight train and a work train with trolley together, died in the four workers.

literature

• Peter Wegenstein, Heinz Albrecht (photo): The train through the Wachau. This volume covers the Absdorf-Hippersdorf - St. Valentin route . Bahn im Bild, Volume 85, ZDB -ID 52827-4 . Pospischil, Vienna 1992.
• Railway Atlas Austria . Verlag Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89494-128-6 .
• Christian Leitner and Leopold Riegler (owners and editors): 100 years of the Donautalbahn (Strudengaubahn), Grein Bad Kreuzen to Hirschen-Nöchling self-published, Grein 2010, 36 S with numerous images, PDF
• Josef Wichner: A trip on the new Donauuferbahn from Weitenegg to Grein . In: Niederösterreichische Volks-Bildungs-Blätter. General n / a Volksbildungsverein (Ed.), Volume 25, No. 327, January 1910. pp. 7–9.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Geerkens, Austrian Railways ' Securities , Vol. 1, bahnmedien.at, Vienna 2009, p. 144
2. ↑ Transport. Dispute over taking over the branch lines . In: noe.orf.at , September 13, 2010, accessed on September 13, 2010.
3. ↑ Politics. SPÖ is pushing for the Donauuferbahn to be preserved ... Schützenhilfe from Upper Austria . In: noe.orf.at , September 13, 2010, accessed on September 13, 2010.
4. ↑ ÖBB Upper Austria 2019/2020
5. ↑ Günther Dinhobl, Bernd Kreuzer: On the way in Lower Austria - traffic in the region around Vienna , in: Peter Melichar , Ernst Langthaler , Stefan Eminger (editor), Lower Austria in the 20th Century, Volume 2, Economy, S 52 Donauuferbahn
6. ↑ Landscape protection and monument preservation
7. ^ Wachau around 1900: Photographs by the landscape photographer Konrad Heller , accessed on May 8, 2010.
8. ↑ "If you want the train, you have to put up with the smoke ..." , article of the Federal Monuments Office, accessed on February 7, 2010
9. ↑ Gerhard Strohmeier: Perception of Landscapes: Identities and Backdrops , in: Oliver Kühschelm , Ernst Langthaler, Stefan Eminger (editor), Lower Austria in the 20th Century, Volume 3 Culture, Vienna 2008, S 207ff, keyword Donauuferbahn
10. ↑ 100 years of the Donauuferbahn in Persenbeug (PDF; 6.7 MB)
11. ↑ Stephanie Schmidt: Gentle Mobility - The Discovery of Slowness - With the Wachau Railway, which meanders along the scenic and culturally attractive Danube terraces, the region is made accessible in a gentle way - then as now , in: Upgrade, The magazine for knowledge and further education of Danube University Krems, edition 2/2010, p. 28ff.
12. ↑ Monument protection for railway viaducts including picture gallery with 23 pictures
13. ↑ Railway tunnels
14. ^ Local train Mauthausen-Grein. In:  Die Presse , January 30, 1889, p. 6, top left (online at ANNO ).
15. ↑ 100 years of the Machlandbahn, in: Website www.pergmuseum.at des Heimatverein Perg
16. ↑ RGBl. 1897/94 .
17. ^ Opening of the Mauthausen – Grein local train. In:  Tages-Post , July 5, 1898, p. 3, center right. (Online at ANNO ).
18. ^ Gerhard Pilz: The development of the traffic system . In: Ernst Grüll: Heimatbuch der Stadt Perg 2009 . Heimatverein Perg, Perg 2009, ISBN 978-3-902598-90-5 , p. 445 ff.
19. ↑ Tips district Perg, 43rd week 2012, p. 4.
20. ↑ Bezirksrundschau Perg, No. 43 from 24./25. October 2012 p 4
21. ↑ RGBl. 1905/190 .
22. ↑ Local Railway Krems – Grein. In:  Linzer Volksblatt , No. 131/1905 (XXXVII. Year), June 8, 1905, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
23. ↑ Stephanie Schmidt: Gentle mobility - the discovery of slowness - with the Wachau Railway, which meanders along the scenic and culturally attractive Danube terraces, the region is opened up in a gentle way - then as now. In: Upgrade, the magazine for knowledge and further education at Danube University Krems. Issue 2/2010, pp. 30–31.
24. ↑ Perger Tourism hits hard for a fixed rail connection to the Wachau . In: www.nachrichten.at , August 2009, accessed on September 13, 2010.
25. ↑ Almtalbahn, Mühlkreisbahn and Hausruckbahn continue to run. In: liferadio.at. October 8, 2018, accessed December 28, 2018 . 
26. ↑ 600 million for the rail: All branch lines are preserved. In: nachrichten.at. July 2, 2019, accessed July 2, 2019 . 
27. ↑ Donauuferbahn - closure from Sarmingstein to the Wachau. In: Tips Perg. 15th week 2011, p. 28.
28. ↑ Revitalization of the Donauuferbahn as a goal. In: BezirksRundschau Perg. No. 15 of April 14, 2011, pp. 2–3.
29. ↑ Sarmingstein - Weins-Ysperdorf section of the Donauuferbahn reactivated for general assembly! on http://www.schienenweg.at/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=25285 from May 14, 2013
30. ↑ ^{a b} Blocked. Donauuferbahn blocked in the Wachau ... "The line is not abandoned" In: noe.orf.at , September 5, 2006, accessed on September 13, 2010.
31. ↑ After a year. Wachau Railway runs again . In: noe.orf.at , May 7, 2007, accessed on September 13, 2010.
32. ↑ Transport. Discussion about the renovation of the Danube embankment . In: noe.orf.at , November 8, 2009, accessed on September 13, 2010.
33. ↑ Transport. Scheduled operations again from December 14th . In: noe.orf.at , December 4, 2009, accessed on September 13, 2010.
34. ↑ ÖBB poster on the line closure between Spitz / Donau and Dürnstein-Oberloiben or Krems / Donau ( memento of the original from December 24, 2015 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. (PDF; 133 kB) 
35. ↑ Rockslide December 5, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
36. ↑ ^{a b} NÖN State of Lower Austria engages Wiener Lokalbahnen
37. ↑ Rail Services International Revision Schlieren - new operator breaks new ground (accessed on May 5, 2011)
38. ↑ In the event of flooding, the Wachau-Bahn should run on ORF from January 17, 2011, accessed on January 20, 2011.
39. ↑ Wachau World Heritage in danger? In: The press . November 23, 2010 Retrieved February 2, 2011.
40. ↑ Heavy rain probably led to two rock falls on ORF on June 11, 2011, accessed on August 17, 2013.
41. ↑ After a rock fall: Wachau Railway runs again. on ORF on June 17, 2011.
42. ↑ Wachau Railway renovated after rock falls on February 21, 2013, accessed on February 22, 2013.
43. ↑ 'New' vehicles for NÖVOG. March 24, 2016. Retrieved March 24, 2016 . 
44. ↑ Brief message: Shutdown on the Danube . In: Lok Magazin . No. 8 , 2017, p. 25 .
45. ↑ https://donauuferbahn.aktivist.in/
46. ↑ https://www.lok-report.de/news/europa/item/5123-oesterreich-zerstoerung-der-donauuferbahn-als-teil-des-welterbes-wachau.html
47. ↑ https://www.p3tv.at/webtv/9352-aus-fuer-19-kilometer-eisenbahn
48. ↑ Woman dies in collision with Wachau Railway . noe.orf.at, October 26, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018.
49. ↑ Four dead in a train accident on the Danube shore line October 8, 2002, accessed May 13, 2018.

Remarks

1. ↑ Shortly after the opening of the route, the public became aware of the initiative run by the cold water sanatorium in Bad Kreuzen to expand the station name from Grein to Grein - Bad Kreuzen . - See: Correspondences. (...) (From our train.). In:  Linzer Volksblatt , July 10, 1898, p. 3 middle. (Online at ANNO ). as well as correspondence. (...) cross. July 14th (From our track.). In:  Tages-Post , July 17, 1898, p. 4, top center. (Online at ANNO ). .

Web links

Commons : Donauuferbahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Current timetable (St. Valentin – St. Nikola-Struden) of the ÖBB
• Current timetable (Krems ad Donau – Emmersdorf ad Donau) in the ÖBB timetable
• Information & history on the NÖVOG website
• Initiative to revive the Wachau Railway
• Connection of the Donauuferbahn to the Kaiser-Franz-Josefs-Bahn , Austria-Forum
• Entry on 100 years of the Wachauerbahn in the Austria Forum  (as a stamp illustration)
• Lothar Brill: Route 172 01, Krems an der Donau - Mauthausen (Donauuferbahn, Wachauerbahn) (pictures of all tunnel portals) and Dürnstein tunnel on route 172 01 (pictures of the rock fall) . In: eisenbahntunnel.at , March 10, 2012, accessed on August 3, 2012.
• RoGü: Railway in the Wachau - Donauuferbahn . In: wachauer-petromax.at , July 24, 2012, accessed on June 22, 2018.
• Weitenegg train station
• The Donauuferbahn - a documentation in 4 parts (Documentation Center for European Railway Research DEEF)

Coordinates: 48 ° 13 '  N , 15 ° 12'  E