Railway Lambach – Haag am Hausruck
Neukirchen near Lambach – Haag am Hausruck | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Scheduled service vehicle ET 25.103 in Haag am Hausruck
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Route length: | 22.0 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 750 volts = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minimum radius : | 142 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top speed: | 50 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Lambach – Haag am Hausruck railway , also known as the Haager Lies , is a disused local railway in Austria . The 22.0 km long standard gauge branch line was a branch line of the Western Railway , linking the towns of Neukirchen bei Lambach and Haag am Hausruck in Upper Austria . Most of the trains went continuously to and from Lambach , which is where the mileage starts. Some trains ran beyond Lambach to Wels .
The line to Haag was opened on July 23, 1901. It is completely owned by the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB); the management was carried out by Stern & Hafferl Verkehrs-GmbH . The railway was electrified and operated with 750 volts direct current. On the Western Railway, the trains to and from Haag ran with a voltage of 15,000 volts alternating current , which means that two-system vehicles were required. On December 13, 2009, rail traffic on the line was discontinued and the train connections were replaced by buses.
history
The public limited company of the local railway Lambach - Haag was founded in 1901. The kk Österreichische Staatsbahnen was originally commissioned with the management of this route , and it was operated with steam locomotives . An extension to Ried im Innkreis was planned from the beginning , but this was never realized. On January 1, 1930, the public limited company was liquidated and the BBÖ state railways owned the line. Since the income continued to deteriorate rapidly in the 1930s, this wanted to stop the railway. The transport company Stern & Hafferl saved the railway and the ÖBB transferred the management of the company to this company. As a result, Stern & Hafferl began electrifying the line in 1932 . A year later, on April 8, 1938, the first electric multiple unit was put into operation on the line.
In 1948, the ÖBB carried out electrification work with alternating current on the Westbahn, which brought about changes for the local railway operations. The local railway overhead line had to be dismantled between Lambach and Neukirchen. Since it was no longer possible to operate with electric multiple units in this section, these journeys had to be carried out with borrowed steam locomotives and former Viennese light rail vehicles. Stern & Hafferl was able to find a permanent solution for this: the main workshop in Vorchdorf built a car with a spring-mounted mercury vapor gas rectifier that enabled operation with direct and alternating current. This vehicle ran in the Bachmanning – Lambach section in a train with the locomotive, to which it fed the direct current via a cable-plug connection.
In 1952, the workshop built a second rectifier car of this type, which proved itself extremely well. The local railway vehicles were thus able to use the ÖBB network; In the case of special trips and various transfer trips, the Stern & Hafferl vehicles with rectifier vehicles came as far as Linz and Salzburg . The transition between direct and alternating current takes place on an 800-meter-long stretch of road near Neukirchen. The mercury rectifiers were later replaced by silicon rectifiers.
The last years of operation
Seven pairs of trains ran on weekdays in the last timetable period, and two more to Wels. Only two pairs of trains were offered on Saturdays, only one on Sundays. The two class 4855 railcars were used as planned.
The distance
At Neukirchen bei Lambach it was integrated into the Western Railway; Since the line improvement between Lambach and Breitenschützing went into operation in October 2012, the line has been isolated from the rest of the rail network. Due to the poor state of the superstructure, the route could only be driven at a maximum of 50 km / h and the axle load was limited to 20 tons.
In 2001 all points were renewed in Bachmanning station . There are Remisen in Bachmanning and Haag am Hausruck. Since not all vehicles could be parked safely, most of them were in the open.
The end
On December 12, 2009, passenger traffic was discontinued on the entire route. In 2008 the ÖBB submitted plans to improve the line on the Western Railway for higher speeds, which would no longer have allowed the Haager Lies to be integrated. Thus, the Haager Lies would have become an island operation without a connection to the Western Railway and a change would have been necessary for a further journey towards Wels. In the ÖBB regional train concept, which was presented to the ÖBB supervisory board in June 2006, the Haager Lies is listed as "permanently discontinued". In the ÖBB regional railway concept, which was presented in June 2008, the route is listed as a "non-networked railway", the route of which is to be relinquished or terminated.
ÖBB Infrastruktur Betrieb AG originally intended to cease operations in 2006, and at the urging of the operator Stern & Hafferl, extended the operating contract to 2009. A further extension until 2010 was rejected. A follow-up bus service was set up. At the beginning of 2017, it was planned to remove track structures and masts and to build a walkway and cycle path. The cycle path is currently under construction and should be opened in 2020.
vehicles
See also: vehicles of the Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft
Overview of the vehicles used on the Haager Lies:
number | Construction year | Manufacturer | Others |
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Locomotives | |||
E 20.001 | 1915 | Graz wagon factory | Elektrolok , 1935 by the industrial railway Wöllersdorf bought |
E 20 007 | SGP | Electric locomotive, freight train service | |
Railcar | |||
ET 24 104 | 1950 | Graaff wagon factory in Elze | Scheduled service vehicle, scrapped in 2012 |
ET 25.101 | 1932 | Graz wagon factory | Vintage railcar, retired in 1975 after an accident |
ET 25 102 | 1932 | Graz wagon factory | Nostalgic vehicle, scrapped in 2012 |
ET 25 103
(ET 4855 001) |
1989 | Bombardier ELIN AG | Scheduled service vehicle, back to ÖBB in 2013 as ET 4855 001 |
ET 25 104
(ET 4855 002) |
1989 | Bombardier ELIN AG | Scheduled service vehicle, back to ÖBB in 2013 as ET 4855 002 |
ET 25.105 | 1921 | Graz wagon factory | Taken over by the Linz local railway in 1962 |
Freight wagons | |||
B 38.208 | 1950 | Sankt Pölten | ÖBB Spantenwagen, used on the line since 1974/1975 |
B 38.210 | 1950 | Sankt Pölten | ÖBB Spantenwagen, used on the line since 1974/1975 |
DPost 84 202 | 1915 | Graz wagon factory | ÖBB Postwaggon, owned by the Haager Lies since 1968 |
G 119 481 | 1913 | Ringhoffer | Covered general cargo wagon, parked in Waizenkirchen |
G 20.811032 852 | 1928 | Niederzwehren | covered general cargo wagon |
N 24.424 | 1904 | Kolin | Low side car |
N 20.520 | 1941 | Breda | Tank wagons |
N 24.601 | 1941 | Breda | Tank wagon |
Railway service vehicles | |||
X 25.601 | ? | Self-made | Rail car |
X 25,621 | ? | Self-made | Tower car |
other vehicles | |||
EGL 25.051 | 1950 | Vorchdorf workshop | Rectifier car, self-made by the main workshop , parked in Waizenkirchen. |
EGL 25.052 | 1952 | Vorchdorf workshop | Rectifier car, self-made by the main workshop, lent to the Schwechat Railway Museum |
literature
- Stern & Hafferl - visions with tradition . GEG Werbung GmbH, publisher: Stern and Hafferl GmbH, Gmunden 2003, ISBN 3-9501763-0-6
- The company Stern & Hafferl II . Helmut Weis, editor: Bahn im Bild, Volume 26, 1982
- 100 years of Haager Lies . Stern & Hafferl
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stern & Hafferl
- ↑ State correspondence No. 262 of November 13, 2009
- ↑ Dieter Geerkens: Austrian Railways ' securities , vol. 1, bahnmedien.at, Vienna 2009, p. 130
- ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: Haager Lies was supposed to be discontinued during the first major economic crisis . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on August 22, 2017]).
- ↑ a b Robert Schrempf: End of a curiosity . In: Tram magazine . No. 3 , 2010, p. 58 ff .
- ↑ Book: The firm Stern & Hafferl I . Peter Pospischil Editor: Bahn im Bild, Volume 12, 1980, page 51
- ↑ Regional Rail , edition 3/2008, page 45
- ↑ Project page of the ÖBB ( 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. , accessed on January 2, 2015
- ^ Zeunert: The small railway - private railways & works railways . Volume 12, 2000, page 93
- ↑ OÖNachrichten: Haager Lies adjusted from 13 December
- ↑ Upper Austrian news: Haager Lies cuts off high-speed line . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on August 22, 2017]).
- ^ Upper Austrian news: footpath and cycle path on the route of the Haager Lies . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on August 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: The cycle path on the "Haager Lies" route is on track and will be completed in 2020 . ( nachrichten.at [accessed on October 18, 2019]).