Pöchlarn – Kienberg-Gaming railway line

Erlauftalbahn
Route number :	155 01
Course book route (ÖBB) :	120 (Pöchlarn - Scheibbs)
Route length:	37.784 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Maximum slope :	14  ‰
Minimum radius :	141 m
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend Western Railway of Vienna 0.000 Pöchlarn 214  m above sea level A. 1.119 Western Railway to Salzburg 4,370 Erlauf 223  m above sea level A. Erlauf 8,852 Siding from Wopfinger 9.783 Petzenkirchen 242  m above sea level A. 10,514 Wibeba Holz GmbH siding from Ober-Grafendorf 11.506 Wieselburg on the Erlauf 252  m above sea level A. after Gresten 13.965 Mühling 275  m above sea level A. 14.872 Mühling Plaika 15,709 Mühling-Hart (September 3rd, 1989 closed) 17.807 Show floor 20.117 Purgstall 22,500 Sölling 22,900 Merkenstetten abandoned 24.835 Saffes 26,928 Scheibbs today's end point 331  m above sea level. A. 28.758 Neustift 30.661 Neubruck (formerly Personenbf) 31.697 Fürteben (closed) 33,960 Peutenburg 36.358 Railway siding company Worthington 37.495 Kienberg-Gaming (formerly Personenbf) 391  m above sea level A. Transition to the Ybbstalbahn

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '  N , 15 ° 12'  E The Pöchlarn – Kienberg-Gaming ( Erlauftalbahn ) railway is a branch line in Austria . It is a branch line of the Vienna – Salzburg railway line (Austrian Western Railway) and is the most important means of public transport in the Erlauftal . The owner and operator are the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB). Railcars of the series ÖBB 5047 are used.

A railway line branches off from Wieselburg to Gresten , which was originally a section of the narrow-gauge Ober-Grafendorf – Gresten local railway , a branch line of the Mariazellerbahn . It was converted from narrow-gauge to standard-gauge in 1998 for regional economic reasons and is used exclusively for freight traffic.

history

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Pöchlarn station (around 1900)

Scheibbs station (1901)

The origin of the railway goes back to the middle of the 19th century. The construction of the line through the Erlaftal - as the Erlaftal was originally called - was mainly due to the highly developed small iron industry there , and all projects propagated during the founding period can be traced back to the industrial and transport-political importance of this area. The original route project for the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Westbahn was based on a connection from St. Pölten, Schauboden in the Erlauftal and Amstetten. At that time they also advocated a strategic railway Zwettl - Pöchlarn - Kienberg - Hieflau as a direct connection between the " Eisenwurzen " and southern Bohemia . But when the route of the West web was then passed over Melk and the remaining projects were not realized, sought the "Hammer Men" at least connecting the narrow iron industrial area, the so-called "Eisenwurzen" to the Western Railway and the connection with the Danube to obtain .

Andreas Töpper , whose successor was Adolf Horst in Neubruck, Josef Reiser in Kienberg, Anton Fanta in Neustift and, in particular, Ignaz, the mayor of Scheibbs at the time, earned great merit in carrying out this project Höfinger.

After several setbacks, under Anton von Banhans as Minister of Commerce, the license was granted on November 3, 1874, and the license was announced on March 6, 1875. The following were named as licensees: Victor Graf Wimpffen in association with Adolph Horst, Leopold Hutterstrasser, Alexander Curti and August Köstlin .

Purgstall station (2007)

Scheibbs station, today's end point of passenger traffic (2011). It has since been dismantled on two tracks.

ÖBB diesel multiple unit 5047 in Kienberg-Gaming (2007)

On October 19, 1876, the K. k. priv. Niederösterreichischen Südwestbahnen in the presence of 17 shareholders, who represented more than nine tenths of the share capital .

Southwest railroad boundary stone in Scheibbs

The construction of the Erlauftalbahn, awarded to the company Franz Kraus, Johann Prokop and Georg Schlechter, was completed in 1877 under chief engineer Büchler as site manager. The technical and police test run was declared over on October 21, 1877 and the opening of the railway was approved for the following day, the 22nd . The actual opening ceremony took place in Scheibbs as part of a festival under the direction of the then Vice Mayor Ignaz Höfinger.

Immediately after the aforementioned constitution of the company kk privileged N.Ö. The concessionaire Horst suggested that Südwestbahnen be nationalized in order to ensure regular operation on this line for the future, regardless of the company's financial situation.

Despite multiple state support, the corporation kk priv. Niederösterreichische Südwestbahnen , which had started the railway construction, faced insoluble financing problems, so that the state took over the remaining financing and finally in 1878 the entire railway system under the name kk Niederösterreichische Staatsbahnen . The Erlauftalbahn became a state railway almost simultaneously with its opening. - On June 28, 1878, the general assembly of the Lower Austrian Südwestbahnen decided to liquidate the company.

The new rail line fulfilled the expectations placed on it because of its economic advantages, as the ironworks in Erlaftal could successfully enter the competition of larger production areas. The railway also opened up the area for the burgeoning tourism. The iron industry, however - under the influence of the invention of Bessemerstahl - could not hold on in its original form. After the demise of the hammer , it became necessary to switch to new branches of production, which, however, no longer found their way into Eisenwurzen.

The extension towards Ybbstal was opened in 1898 in the form of the narrow-gauge Ybbstalbahn .

With the timetable change in December 2010, presented Austrian Federal Railways to rail transport between Scheibbs and Kienberg - Gaming favor of a bus one, thereby to Ybbstalbahn belonging heritage railway lost its rail connection. In 2015, ÖBB sold the line between Scheibbs and Kienberg-Gaming, including the train station area in Kienberg-Gaming, to ÖGLB, which operates the Ybbstalbahn mountain line. The standard gauge tracks were removed. However, there is the option of extending the narrow-gauge railway to Scheibbs along the route. The remainder of the Pöchlarn – Scheibbs line is to be electrified by 2025.

Accidents

On July 29, 2013, two unrolled freight wagons collided with a car at a level crossing in Wieselburg, the driver of which died.

On October 19, 2016, five unloaded, partly four-axle freight wagons with stanchions rolled away from the shunting facility in Randegg on the Gresten – Wieselburg route , probably rolled over 10 to 12 km for around 20 minutes and hit Wieselburg around 11:45 a.m. CEST the brewery on the occupied regional train 7012, which consisted of two railcars and was on the way from St. Pölten via Wieselburg to Scheibbs. Four people were seriously injured, eight slightly. The Erlauftalbahn ran again from October 20th at 6:00 a.m.

literature

• Hans Sternhart, Friedrich Slezak: Lower Austrian Southwest Railways. Leobersdorf, Hainfeld, St. Pölten, Traisen, Kernhof / Türnitz, Wittmannsdorf, Piesting, Gutenstein, Pöchlarn, Scheibbs, Kienberg-Gaming , Verlag Slezak, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-900134-35-9
• Irene M. Weiß: Erlauftalbahn lifeline , 2007, ISBN 978-3-9501919-2-9

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RGBl. 1875/10
2. ↑ The concession was valid for several routes: Leobersdorf – St. Pölten with the Scheibmühl – Schrambach branch line (possibly Freiland), as well as Leobersdorf – Gutenstein and Pöchlarn – Gaming.
3. ^ Niederösterreichische Südwestbahn. In:  Neue Freie Presse , October 22, 1876, p. 9 (online at ANNO ).
4. ^ Die Niederösterreichische Südwestbahn. In:  Die Presse , October 22, 1877, p. 1 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ RGBl. 1875/11
6. ↑ RGBl. 1876/68
7. ↑ RGBl. 1876/69
8. ↑ ^{a b} RGBl. 1878/104
9. ↑ RGBl. 1878/88
10. ↑ K. k. priv. nied. Austrian Südwestbahnen in Vienna in liquidation. In:  Wiener Zeitung , November 15, 1878, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).
11. ↑ versa, BMVIT (ed.): Collision of unrolled wagons with cars at a level crossing in Austria on July 29, 2013 . ( bmvit.gv.at [PDF]).
12. ↑ Driverless wagons kill car drivers. In: noe.orf.at. Retrieved October 20, 2016 . 
13. ↑ Eight months imprisonment for railway workers. In: noe.orf.at. Retrieved October 20, 2016 . 
14. ↑ Train accident: wagons driverless for 20 minutes orf.at, October 19, 2016, accessed October 19, 2016. - With a sketch of the intersecting routes.
15. ↑ Wieselburg: After a ghost ride: Several seriously injured people in a train accident kleinezeitung.at, October 19, 2016, accessed October 20.

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