Freight train bypass St. Pölten
The St. Pölten Freight Train Bypass (GZU) is a double-track high - performance line in Lower Austria .
The aim of this freight bypass line is to relieve the St. Pölten station and to create new capacities for passenger traffic on the Austrian Western Railway .
The St. Pölten freight train bypass planned from 1991 and under construction from 1999 was opened in December 2017 and went into operation on 10 December 2017 with the annual timetable change of the ÖBB . The cost was 730 million euros.
Route
The almost 24.7 km long route includes three tunnels, the longest of which, the Pummersdorfer Tunnel , is around 3.5 km long, and 23 bridges. It connects the Wagram junction with Loosdorf (Rohr junction) and in the western part runs largely parallel to the West Autobahn , from the St. Pölten junction parallel to the Krems expressway .
Furnishing
The route is equipped with the European Train Control System and designed for a maximum speed of 120 km / h.
For the first time in Austria, no optical railway signals were installed, which means that trains that support ETCS can only be used .
Web links
- Closing the gap between St. Pölten and Loosdorf on the ÖBB-Infra website
- “Freight train bypass St. Pölten” officially opened on ots.at, December 1, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ ÖBB infrastructure - closing the gap between St. Pölten and Loosdorf. Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
- ↑ "St. Pölten Freight Train Bypass" officially opened . In: OTS.at . ( ots.at [accessed on July 27, 2018]).
- ^ PORR Austria: ÖBB - St. Pölten freight train bypass - World of PORR. PORR Austria, accessed on July 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Before the start of the new railway era . ( noen.at [accessed on July 27, 2018]).