Ferlacher Bahn

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Ferlacher Bahn
Route length: 5.7 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Rosentalbahn from the Karawanken tunnel
Station, station
 0.0 Weizelsdorf 432  m above sea level A.
   
 Rosentalbahn to Klagenfurt Hbf
   
 3.5 Unterbergen abandoned
   
 Connection to KESTAG (Histotram)
End station - end of the line
 5.7 Ferlach 471  m above sea level A.

The Ferlacher Bahn is a standard gauge branch line in Carinthia . The line, opened in 1906, mainly served to supply the - once powerful - Ferlach iron industry. Passenger transport has always played a subordinate role and so it was discontinued in 1951. With the steel crisis at the beginning of the 1980s, the Ferlacher Bahn lost a large part of its transport orders.

The route branches off from the eastern Rosentalbahn in Weizelsdorf , continues via the abandoned Unterbergen station with a slightly uphill stretch over the Grießbachbrücke (45 m) to Ferlach Bhf.

From Ferlach, the connecting railway leads to the site of the former KESTAG , the current location of many companies and also of the HISTORAMA (Transport Technology Museum, operated by NBiK). This connecting tram will be electrified so that historic trams can be used.

From 1991 the nostalgic railways in Carinthia (NBiK) began to run their “Rosentaler steam strolling trains” on the ÖBB route in the summer months. The Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) presented in 1997 the transport of goods on the route Weizelsdorf - Ferlach final one, so the track was seriously threatened in their existence. The line was rented for a short time by the nostalgic railways and it wasn't until 2001 that the line was bought with the support of the city of Ferlach and the state of Carinthia.

The "Localbahn Ferlach - Weizelsdorf" (LFW) now runs in the summer months (July to August on Saturdays and Sundays), in September (only on Sundays) and during Advent (the weekend - Fri, Sat, Sun - before St. Nicholas Day and on the afternoon of Christmas Eve) in steam operation and also has a license to transport goods.

Since the introduction of the S-Bahn line 3 to Weizelsdorf on August 1, 2011, calls have been made to extend the S-Bahn to Ferlach. To do this, however, the route would have to be comprehensively renovated.

There is also the idea that the nostalgic railways in Carinthia run a regular schedule with their historic vehicles - coordinated with the arrival and departure times of the S3 in Weizelsdorf.

Since August 2020 the nostalgic trains of the nostalgic railways have been running in Carinthia between Ferlach and Feistritz in the Rosental.

gallery

  • Ferlach station

  • Rosental steam train at Kirschentheuer

  • Conductor from the Ferlacher Bahn steam train

  • Old freight wagon in Ferlach station

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Opening of the Rosentalbahn. Nostalgic railways in Carinthia , accessed on August 6, 2020 .