Electric local railway Vienna border next to Hainburg
The Electric Local Railway Vienna-State Border near Hainburg was a railway company in Austria , named after the Austrian capital - where the company was also located - and the municipality of Hainburg an der Donau in Lower Austria .
history
The company was founded on November 12, 1904 in order to build and operate the Pressburg Railway between Vienna and the then Hungarian city of Pressburg , which was still at the planning stage . Originally, the company should be responsible for the entire route, so initially from the local railway Vienna-Bratislava was talk, abbreviated LWP However, in the course of detailed planning turned out that the operation of a train not legally on Hungarian territory by an Austrian company and politically was possible. That is why the Pozsony Országhatárszéli Helyiérdekű Villamos Vasút , POHÉ.V. for short, in German Local Electric Railway Pressburg – State Border, was ultimately responsible for the section across the border .
Analogously, the Austrian company was given the designation Elektro Lokalbahn Wien-Landesbegriff next Hainburg , but kept the originally intended abbreviation LWP. So that the operation could be organized uniformly, both companies concluded an operating agreement, on the basis of which the entire route could ultimately be operated by the Austrian company. In the end, however, the LWP did not take over the operation on the route opened in 1914 itself, but commissioned the Lower Austrian State Railways (NÖLB) to do so .
The majority shareholders of the private railway company LWP, which was constituted as a stock corporation , were the state of Lower Austria and the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry , while the state parliament of Lower Austria assumed the guarantee for the priority loan of 10.7 million crowns . In exchange for the pre-license of the engineer Josef Tauber, who planned the Pressburger Bahn in 1898, 43,000 crowns were also to be paid.
After the First World War , the NÖLB ran into financial difficulties, which is why the Austrian Federal Railways (then BBÖ, later ÖBB) took over the operation of the Pressburger Bahn on January 1, 1921. On January 1, 1933, the LWP was finally nationalized .
vehicles
literature
- Vienna-Pressburg Railway. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 10: Transitional bridges - intermediate station . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1923, pp 401 -402.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Nö LGBl 1904/23. In: State law and ordinance sheet for the Duchy of Austria under the Enns , year 1905, p. 22. (Online at ANNO ). as well as RGBl. 1905/124. In: Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrathe , year 1905, p. 276. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Dietmar Grieser: For goose-eating in Pressburg . In: The uncle from Preßburg: On Austrian tracks through Slovakia. Amalthea Signum Verlag, Vienna, 2017.