Wörgl main station
| Wörgl main station | |
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 Wörgl main station
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 10 |
| abbreviation | W. |
| IBNR | 8100099 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | November 24, 1858 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Worgl |
| state | Tyrol |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 29 '31 " N , 12 ° 3' 43" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 505 m above sea level A. |
| Railway lines | |
| List of train stations in Austria | |
The main railway station Wörgl is a railway junction in the Tyrolean town of Wörgl on the Unterinntalbahn and Giselabahn ( Salzburg - Hallein - Zell am See - Wörgl). He has been using the name Hauptbahnhof since December 10, 2006.
location
Wörgl is located at the junction of two major railway magistral .
- the former North Tyrolean Railway , which opened in 1858 and which was planned by Alois Negrelli , the builder of the Suez Canal, and then built by the builder of the Semmering Railway , Carl Ritter von Ghega .
- on the Austrian Westbahn Vienna - Linz - Salzburg - Zell am See - Kitzbühel - Wörgl - Innsbruck - Feldkirch (- Lindau or - Buchs SG ),
- which in the section Vienna - Wörgl is referred to as Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn ,
- in the section Salzburg - Wörgl as Giselabahn (after a daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, Gisela Louise Marie of Austria ) or Salzburg-Tiroler-Bahn ,
- in the section Zell am See - Wörgl as Brixentalbahn , in 1875 in the section Hallein - Schwarzach-St. Veit - Wörgl opened.
meaning
The city of Wörgl , located at 511 m above sea level on the right side of the Inn and around 60 km east of Innsbruck, has the second largest railway facilities in western Austria after the Tyrolean capital Innsbruck. With a current (2013) daily number of more than 12,000 travelers, Wörgl main station is around 90% of the population. With around 200 stopping, departing and ending passenger trains every day to Innsbruck Hbf, it is the station with the second highest number of passengers in Tyrol. With up to 430 daily train journeys, it also exceeds Innsbruck Hbf. With this, and with the dense bus network, the city of Wörgl is one of the best public transport communities in Austria.
All passenger trains, including all Railjet connections, mainly to and from Vienna on the one hand and Zurich or Bregenz on the other hand, stop at Wörgl Hbf - with the exception of a few sleeping car or (Euro) Night Jet trains between around 2.30 a.m. and 4.00 a.m. ; also the trains of the Tyrolean S-Bahn , namely the line 
(Kufstein - Wörgl Hbf - Innsbruck Hbf - Telfs-Pfaffenhofen), the line 
(Wörgl Hbf - Fritzens-Wattens - Innsbruck Hbf - Ötztal) and the line 
(Wörgl Hbf - Wörgl Süd - Kitzbühel - Saalfelden). Since 2016, Wörgl Hbf has also been the terminus of trains on the line 
(Brenner - Steinach - Matrei - Innsbruck Hbf - Schwaz - Jenbach - Brixlegg - Wörgl Kundl - Wörgl Hbf). The seven continuous platforms (1 to 7) are each approx. 400 m long and are divided into five sectors (A to E), the three (shorter) non-continuous (head) platforms (11 to 13) on the east side are mainly used regional traffic to and from Brixental. The previously only planned section of the route of the New Lower Inn Valley Railway east of the Radfeld link (Radfeld - Wörgl bypass - Langkampfen bypass - Kufstein - Brannenburg bypass; see below) will bypass Wörgl main station in the area of the Wörgl bypass, which will noticeably relieve the The city will bring mainly from freight train journeys (vssl from 2025).
Four shunting reserves take care of the formation of numerous freight and passenger trains as well as the shunting . As Verschublokomotiven are ÖBB -Reihen 1063 and 2070 used; the shunting in the stations of Brixlegg, Wörgl Kundl, Kirchbichl, Schaftenau, Kufstein, Hopfgarten, Westendorf and Kirchberg in Tirol as well as the two (or soon three) freight terminals in Wörgl is served from Wörgl Hbf. There are locations of the ÖBB-Traktion and the ÖBB-Technical Services with (additional) own remise shunting (ÖBB series 2067 ); the workshop is mainly responsible for maintaining the RoLa low-floor wagons (“competence center”). There are also several departments for construction, railway maintenance, security, telecommunications, electrical and other services.
A goods terminal with a logistics center and loading point for the Rollende Landstrasse in Terminal North, a substation and extensive sidings and a loading point for cars in passenger trains complete the station. Wörgl is the seat of an ÖBB network operations manager as well as a shunting manager and an ÖBB real estate and train station manager, both with the area of responsibility from Saalfelden and Kufstein to Fritzens - Wattens as well as several other supraregional command posts.
Operation and technology
The Wörgler central station alone (without extra stations and Zugförderungsbereich) present 26 primary and a lot of sidings, 167 points, crossings and 388 light signals (including 62 pre-signals and signal imitators , 75 main signals , 23 protection signals , integrated 181 detached and main signals Verschubsignale , 47 Speedometer and -voranzeiger) and 14 track blocking shoes . For the Wörgl Kundl station section, for example, there are 4 main tracks as well as several side tracks and 88 signals, 4 track blocking shoes and 19 remote switches. This list does not include substitute and departure signals.
There are (from west to east) the station parts Wörgl Kundl , Wörgl Terminal West , Wörgl Terminal North , Wörgl Terminal South and the (actual) Wörgl Hauptbahnhof itself. The Wörgl Süd - Bruckhäusl stop (formerly Söll-Leukental or . from 1993 to 2008 Bruckhäusl ) with a transfer point . The points and signals there are operated from the central signal box in Wörgl , as is the junction in Wörgl Radfeld ( junction W 2) .
Wörgl plays an important role in the four-track expansion of the Lower Inn Valley Railway , which is now in the first stage of expansion (Baumkirchen - Wörgl Radfeld) in December 2012, as part of the TEN Berlin-Palermo axis, including the Brenner base tunnel . As the largest train station in the immediate vicinity of the new line and the only one with a locomotive and wagon workshops and a locomotive support point, Wörgl Central Station and the terminals on both sides of the station (points of connection between the new line and the existing line in Radfeld in the west and in Langkampfen in the east) are full connected to the new line.
Signal box system
The area between Radfeld and Kufstein or Hopfgarten im Brixental is currently controlled from the central signal box. This is why the dispatchers at the Wörgl Hbf West and Ost desks monitor and operate the Wörgl Kundl, Kirchbichl , Kufstein and Hopfgarten stations , the Wörgl Radfeld junction (junction W2 - the new Unterinntal line branches off here) and the north terminals, South and West as well as the transfer points in Wörgl South - Bruckhäusl and Schaftenau.
Since June 1, 2009, the Wörgler signal box has been part of the ÖBB's western operations control center.
The train conveyance area , formerly called “Heizhaus” or “Zugförderung” in Austria, then “Traction”, but recently called “Production area”, has its own push-button interlocking, which is operated by the remise supervisor in Wörgl. From the central interlocking it is possible to run (locomotive) trains directly to and from the train conveyance (traction or production) area. There is also a 24 m turntable there.
history
The Wörgl station was built in 1858 and under Emperor on 24 November 1858 I. Franz Joseph opened. Therefore, in August 2008, an extensive program of events including a large railway festival took place under the motto “150 Years of the Railway in Wörgl”. With the opening of the Giselabahn on August 6, 1875, the Wörgl station became the first railway junction in what is now western Austria, eight years before Innsbruck.
Until the late 1990s, trains in Wörgl switched from right-hand driving (from the direction of Kufstein and Zell am See or Amstetten , where the track changed in the other direction on the ÖBB-Westbahn) to left-hand driving (to Innsbruck or the Brenner) and vice versa instead. For this purpose, one of the so-called “ flat crossings ”, which are very rarely used, was installed in the western turnout area, which enabled the track to be changed at 120 km / h.
Today there is general track change operation on the entire Western Railway and throughout Western Austria, with the right-hand track as the regular track . Since 1890 the Wörgl - Innsbruck line, since 1914 the Wörgl - Zell am See - Salzburg line and since 1939 the Wörgl - Kufstein - Munich line have been continuously expanded to double-track. Since 1928, all leading to Wörgl routes with 15 KV, 16.7 Hz AC electrified .
The station complex and the reception building were almost completely destroyed in the Second World War . After the war, the station building was moved about 500 m in the direction of Innsbruck (to the west), rebuilt and opened in 1950, just in time for the city elevation of Wörgl in 1951.
An electromechanical ÖES (Österreichisches Eisenbahn-Signalwerk) K 47 track diagram command system for the dispatchers served as a safety system . The attendant interlockings were a rotary axis attendant track diagram interlocking in interlocking 1 and an EM 55 attendant track diagram interlocking in interlocking 2. The interlocking systems, which are now known as row interlockings, have been partially preserved as museums . Both signal box buildings, which no longer exist today, were tower signal boxes from which the entire track system could be viewed.
Conversion and expansion from 1993
In 1993, the Wörgl station was almost completely rebuilt by the Austrian Federal Railways at a cost of around 1.4 billion Schillings (around 100 million euros ). The station was equipped with what was then the most modern central interlocking system of the type SpDrL A2 with EBO (uniform user interface on five screens, operation via keyboard and mouse as well as a "Graphic Automatic Light"), which was continuously expanded. The Graphic Automatic Light (GrAuLi) is a computer-controlled self-positioning system in which the routes to be traveled are automatically set based on preprogramming or the train routing numbers. The dispatcher only has a monitoring function in normal operation. The central signal box was built as an attic above the station hall. From here there is a view of the area of the main train station and the train conveyor system through the panoramic window wall . In addition, further platforms and the freight terminals were built.
Between the Wörgl Terminal Nord station and the Wörgl Kundl station and on to the Wörgl Radfeld junction, a third track was built as an “acceleration lane” to increase performance (Wörgl Hbf - Wörgl Terminal South - Wörgl Terminal North has four tracks). Due to the inclusion of Kundl station in Wörgl station in 1993, it is not treated operationally as a line track, but as a station track. In operational terms, Kundl station was given the name “Wörgl Kundl”, although the place name “Kundl” is still used in the passenger train timetable and is written on the platforms. From the Wörgl Radfeld junction, the line that continues in the direction of Innsbruck (to the west) has had four tracks since December 2012 and runs with two tracks on the existing line from 1858 and with two more tracks on the new Unterinntal line built between 1999 and 2012 (part of the new " Brenner-Flachbahn ”, which runs largely underground and allows speeds of up to 230 km / h). Since then, most freight trains and that part of the long-distance trains that do not stop between Wörgl and Innsbruck or vice versa have been running on the underground line, with the maximum speed of 230 km / h being used.
During the major renovation of the station in 1993, the concourse of Wörgl Hbf and the (ten in total) platforms were provided with passenger elevators and train destination displays and completely redesigned together with all the other facilities for passenger and freight traffic. Another renovation took place in 2014, when the lighting was largely switched to LEDs, many new illuminated banners were installed and the departure hall was subjected to a general renovation. A park-and-ride facility for 290 cars makes it easier for passengers to switch from car to train.
The station forecourt was also completely rebuilt and equipped with a green area. The regional and national bus routes as well as the five city bus routes and other shorter regional bus routes leave from the station forecourt . The loading of goods was relocated from the formerly adjoining freight station to the cargo terminal (to the Wörgl Terminal North section of the station) near Wörgl-Liesfeld (towards the west), where a large "Wörgl Business Park" with many companies and industrial plants has now been created, which continues constantly and quickly grows. The logistics center and a loading point for the Rollende Landstrasse (RoLa) have also been set up in the cargo terminal . The North Terminal was also considerably expanded operationally in 2012; from 2016 it is planned to build further extensive connecting and loading tracks and the like. a. to be built in a large wood processing plant nearby; these systems then form the "Wörgl Terminal West" section of the station. There are plans for the period after 2014, according to which the station forecourt should undergo a redesign, whereby it will be enlarged, equipped with a modern bus terminal (instead of the old "bus station") and in the east and west with new logistics, retail and catering operations should be upgraded.
Designation as the main station
In the spring of 2006 the idea was born to designate the Wörgl station as Wörgl Hauptbahnhof ; on the one hand because of its size and importance and the already large number of railway operations in Wörgl and on the other hand for image reasons.
The realization of this idea for the timetable change on December 10, 2006 was preceded by additional expansion and renovation measures. The station concourse and the platforms were partially redesigned. Furthermore, a guidance system for the blind was installed, a new video surveillance system was installed and a permanent security service was set up. Instead of the outdated fall leaf display , a new LED target display system was installed. The entire signage of the station facilities was renewed and adapted to the new dark blue corporate design of the federal railways. Since then, international trains have not only been announced in German, but also in English over the public address system.
