Drautalbahn

Maribor – San Candido
Route number (ÖBB) :	423 01 State border next Bleiburg – Bleiburg 410 01 Bleiburg – Klagenfurt Hbf 413 01 Klagenfurt Hbf – Villach Hbf 222 01 Villach Hbf– Abzw Pusarnitz-Süd 407 01 Abzw Pusarnitz-Süd –Border next Sillian
Course book route (ÖBB) :	620 Bleiburg – Klagenfurt 220 Salzburg Hbf – Klagenfurt Hbf 223 Spittal-Millstättersee – Innichen
Route length:	311 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Klagenfurt Hbf – Innichen: 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	27.3  ‰
Minimum radius :	266 m
Top speed:	140 km / h
Legend 0.0 Maribor 1943 as Marburg (Drau) Hbf Outside 0.9 Maribor Tabor 1943 not listed 1.9 Maribor Studenci 1943 not listed 2.6 Maribor Sokolska in 1943 as Marburg (Drau) Kärntnerbf 4.8 Marles 1943 not listed 5.9 Limbuš in 1943 as Marburg-Lembach 8.1 Bistrica ob Dravi 1943 as Feistritz (b Marburg) 11.4 Ruše tovarna 12.4 Ruše in 1943 as a rest Tunnel (230 m) 18.3 Fala 1943 as a case 24.8 Ruta 1943 as Lorenzen am Bachern 27.4 Ožbalt 1943 as Kappel (Styria) 34.5 Podvelka 1943 as Rottenberg-Fresen 39.6 Vuhred elektrarna 1943 as Johannesberg 43.7 Vuhred in 1943 as Wuchern-Mahrenberg Viaduct Wucherbach 47.7 Sveti Vid 1943 not listed 51.7 Vuzenica 1943 as Saldenhofen 54.1 Trbonjsko jezero 1943 not listed 56.1 Trbonje in 1943 as Trofin 59.6 Sveti Danijel 1943 not listed Rekabach viaduct 63.2 Dravograd 1943 as Unterdrauburg Lavant Valley Railway to Celje 64.9 Podklanc 1943 not listed 69.2 Dobrije 1943 not listed 71.0 Ravne na Koroškem 1943 as Gutenstein-Streiteben 74.3 Prevalje 1943 as Prevali tunnel Holmec tunnel (338 m) 82.0 Holmec 1943 as Homberg (Carinthia) 82,152 State border Slovenia / Austria Jauntalbahn (from Zeltweg ) 86,334 Bleiburg 486  m above sea level A. 89.261 St. Michael ob Bleiburg 1943 not listed 479  m above sea level A. 90.4 Connection railway Mahle Filtersysteme Austria Koralmbahn to Klagenfurt Hbf (under construction) 93.430 Mediators 482  m above sea level A. 100.027 Völkermarkt - Kühnsdorf 441  m above sea level A. Vellachtalbahn (until May 22, 1971) 107.223 Tainach - stone 393  m above sea level A. 110.7 Koralm Railway from Graz Hbf (under construction) Grafenstein Green Tunnel (633 m) 114.657 Grafenstein 418  m above sea level A. 124.322 Klagenfurt Ebenthal 441  m above sea level A. 124.092 Klagenfurt Fbf Rosentalbahn (from St. Veit ad Glan ) 125.881 Klagenfurt Hbf 440  m above sea level A. Rosentalbahn (to Jesenice ) 128.394 Klagenfurt Lend 447  m above sea level A. 129.693 Klagenfurt West (since December 14, 2014) 130.788 Klagenfurt See (closed May 21, 1952) 133.257 Krumpendorf 445  m above sea level A. 137.630 Pritschitz 448  m above sea level A. 139.727 Pörtschach am Wörthersee 448  m above sea level A. 141,302 Leonstein (closed October 1, 1967) 142.549 Toschling 445  m above sea level A. 147.883 Velden am Wörthersee 469  m above sea level A. 151.676 Lind - Rosegg 500  m above sea level A. 152.040 Connection railway ( Awanst ) Bildstein 155.036 Föderlach 505  m above sea level A. 162.207 Villach Seebach 492  m above sea level A. Rudolfsbahn (from St. Veit ad Glan ) 163.450 Villach Hbf-Ostbf freight loading station 164.264 Villach central station 498  m above sea level A. Rudolfsbahn (to Tarvisio Boscoverde ) Tauern loop route 415 01 (from Villach Westbf) 166.483 Abzw Gummern 2 171.384 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) Omya 172.799 Gummern (closed on December 13, 2014) 174.013 Puch 505  m above sea level A. 177.688 Weißenstein - Kellerberg 506  m above sea level A. 178.744 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) EVONIK Paternion-Feistritz stop (since December 14, 2014) 183.163 Paternion - Feistritz 513  m above sea level A. 185.684 Market Paternion 525  m above sea level A. 187,000 Ferndorf 527  m above sea level A. 188.062 Connection track ( Awanst ) Knauf Insulation 191.710 Rothenthurn 520  m above sea level A. 192.324 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) Danicek 200.135 Spittal - Millstätter See 544  m above sea level A. 206.504 Pusarnitz-Süd ( junction 407 01 ) Tauernbahn (to Schwarzach-St. Veit) 206.652 Lendorf 548  m above sea level A. 210.639 Möllbrücke - Sachsenburg 558  m above sea level A. 213.057 Sachsenburg market 562  m above sea level A. 213.148 Connection railway ( Awanst ) Hasslacher 219,574 Kleblach - Lind 572  m above sea level A. 226,460 Steinfeld in the Drautal 582  m above sea level A. 232.075 Greifenburg - Weissensee 590  m above sea level A. 237,365 Berg im Drautal 594  m above sea level A. 241.780 Dellach in the Drautal 608  m above sea level A. 246,640 Irschen 609  m above sea level A. 249.856 Oberdrauburg 621  m above sea level A. State border Carinthia / Tyrol 257,013 Nikolsdorf 637  m above sea level A. 263,235 Dölsach 653  m above sea level A. 265.280 Awanst group 265.354 Awanst Rossbacher 266.170 Awanst Liebherr 266,222 Awanst farmer 266.680 Lienz Peggetz (since December 2011) 268,381 Lienz 674  m above sea level A. 278,334 Thal 812  m above sea level A. 280.253 Awanst Theurl Leimholz 284.497 Mittewald at the Drau loading point 882  m above sea level A. 291.504 Abfaltersbach 1036  m above sea level A. 295,406 Cupsbach 1070  m above sea level A. 295.656 Awanst North Pan 297.025 Heinfels (since February 1, 2020) 1078  m above sea level A. 298.627 Sillian 1089  m above sea level A. 301,400 Weitlanbrunn 1111  m above sea level A. 302.246 Awanst Holzhof Arnbach 302,952 72,568 State border Austria / Italy 71.668 Winnebach / Prato Drava 1125  m slm 70.632 Four Chess I † approx. 1960s 69.115 Vierschach - Helm / Versciaco-Elmo * 2014 1137  m slm 68.819 Vierschach II † 1989 1138  m slm 64.509 Innichen / San Candido traction current change 1176  m slm Pustertalbahn to Franzensfeste

The Drautalbahn - as this railway line is called today - is an east-west railway connection along the Drau . It extends from Maribor (Marburg a. D. Drau, connection to the old Südbahn ) to Innichen , where it merges with the Pustertalbahn to Franzensfeste . It begins in northern Slovenia , crosses Carinthia and East Tyrol and ends in South Tyrol . The section of the course Klagenfurt - Bleiburg is as part of Koralmbahn expanded that from Bleiburg the Jauntalbahn follows. This section of the line, like the rest of the route in Slovenia, is single-track and not electrified.

history

Today's Drautalbahn consists of the Carinthian Railway (Marburg– Villach ), the original Drautalbahn (Villach– Lienz ) and the eastern part of the original Pustertalbahn (which extended from Lienz to Franzensfeste ). It received its current name as a result of the division of the Pustertal route into an Austrian and an Italian part after 1918.

Dravograd train station

Carinthian Railway

The Carinthian Railway was built as a wing line by the kk priv. Südbahngesellschaft and extended from Marburg to Villach.

The original concession (1856: Marburg – Villach– Brixen with a branch Villach– Görz ) was held by an AG which, however, could not raise the building capital for this large project. It stayed with the "Klagenfurt groundbreaking" in 1857.

This concession then went to the Creditanstalt , which partly (Marburg-Villach) passed it on to the kk priv. Südbahngesellschaft . The remaining projects were dropped for the time being. The section from Marburg to Klagenfurt was opened on June 1, 1863. On May 30, 1864, the line was opened to Villach.

In the 1960s, the line between Klagenfurt and Villach was electrified and double-tracked.

Old Drautalbahn; Pustertalbahn

A sequel was not initially considered. It was only because of political and strategic considerations that the decision was made later to also build a connection from Villach via Lienz to Franzensfeste in order to connect the southern railway with the Brenner railway . This took place with the installation of the old Drautalbahn and the Pustertalbahn , both of which were opened on November 20, 1871. The Villach – Franzensfeste project was established with financial support from the state.

Drautalbahn between Marburg (bottom right) and Franzensfeste, 1899

Reorientation after 1918

After the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy , the route suddenly lay in three different states and thus lost its historical unity. With the division of the Pustertalbahn, its Austrian route was merged with the old Drautalbahn and the Carinthian Railway to form the current Drautalbahn , while the Italian Pustertalbahn kept its name. The Austrian section is still kilometers from Marburg. Between the junction of the Rosentalbahn in Klagenfurt and the junction of the Rudolfsbahn towards Tarvisio in Villach, it became part of the new southern route.

Since the branch of the Lavant Valley Railway was in Unterdrauburg , Slovenia , trains between the Lavant Valley and Klagenfurt had to have a corridor until the newly built Jauntal Railway closed the gap inland in the 1960s.

Railcar 813.018 in Bleiburg

Current traffic and vehicle use

In the Slovenian section, the Slovenske železnice trains run from Monday to Friday. There is comparatively heavy traffic between Maribor and Ruše . Three pairs of trains run as far as Bleiburg . Some trains only run to Prevalje . Very few regional trains run on weekends in the summer months. Mostly used are railcars of the SZ813 / 814 series, which were built between 1973 and 1976 by Fiat Ferroviaria and TVT Maribor .

From Bleiburg , trains coming from Wolfsberg in particular use the route to continue to Klagenfurt main station . Push-pull trains are used together with the 2016 series or diesel multiple units of the 5022 series .

In the Klagenfurt - Spittal an der Drau section , ÖBB long-distance trains also operate on the Vienna - Villach , Vienna - Lienz and Klagenfurt - Salzburg routes . These RJ, EC, IC or EN are pulled or pushed by class 1144 , 1116 and 1216 locomotives. In the section with electrically operated traction, modern railcars of the 4024 series are also used as REX, R or S-Bahn trains.

Until the 2013/14 timetable change, there were two daily ÖBB direct connections from Lienz to Innsbruck , which were run as corridor trains over the Pustertal and Brenner Railway and were hauled by class 1216 locomotives.

Since the 2014/15 timetable change, fourteen SAD local transport FLIRT trains have been running every hour from Lienz to Franzensfeste , with the option (s) to change to Innsbruck or Bolzano . The six-part ETR170 are equipped for operation under 3 kV direct current (IT) and 15 kV / 16.7 Hz alternating current (AT).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Discontinued: ÖBB is looking for buyers for the train station in Gummern , kleinezeitung.at, written on December 25, 2014, accessed on March 17, 2016.
2. ↑ New stop planned: The train will stop in Heinfels from December. In: tt.com, June 3, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2020.
3. ↑ A station where a train has never stopped. In: tt.com, January 20, 2020. Accessed February 1, 2020.
4. ↑ Course book page Maribor – Prevalje valid from December 15, 2019 to August 29, 2020. Slovenske železnice, accessed on June 1, 2020 (Slovenian). 
5. ↑ miniaturna-zeleznica.com: SŽ garnitura serije 813/814. Web archive date August 7, 2014, accessed June 1, 2020 (Slovenian). 
6. ↑ Direct train connection Franzensfeste-Lienz. Retrieved September 23, 2015 . 

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