Kaprunbahn
| Bruck-Fusch-Kaprun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Route length: | 6.8 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kaprunbahn was a connecting freight railway to the Tauern power plants in Kaprun . It branched off from the Salzburg-Tiroler Bahn at Bruck-Fusch station and was dismantled in the 1980s.
course
The connecting line ran from Bruck station under the B 311 to the Salzach , which it followed for 2.3 kilometers. At the intersection with Schlossstrasse, it turned away from the river and ran through the Kapruner Moor towards Kaprun . There the route crossed the Kapruner Ache with an iron bridge at the beginning of the village and continued through a tunnel ( 47 ° 16 '20.7 ″ N , 12 ° 45 ′ 23 ″ E ) under the Kapruner Kirchhügel.
Shortly after the tunnel, a stump track branched off into the material store that had still existed there at the time. About two kilometers further on, the railway line reached the power station's work area, where there was a small station with two tracks , two butt tracks for loading purposes and a locomotive shed. Two more butt tracks led from this station, one of them to the main stage power plant at the end of the valley directly in front of the Sigmund-Thun-Klamm and to the inclined elevator that accompanied the pipeline. It was mainly used to transport large generators. The other stump track ran extremely steeply on the Krapfbrücke over the Kapruner Ache into the so-called open-air facility. It was used almost exclusively to transport transformers , which were brought in with 16-axle special wagons. In order to push such wagons over the bridge, an ÖBB locomotive (usually a BR 2067 ) always had to be rented in addition to one's own locomotives .
Today only one switch with a protective switch in the Bruck train station (towards Zell am See ) is preserved. Remnants of track can also be found in the power house. Partly a cycle path now runs along the former route , including through the tunnel that has also been preserved. The Krapfbrücke in Kaprun is now used by the Kaprun bypass road.
Resources
A WR 360 C (2065.11) was mainly available for the railway . Later a GEBUS locomotive (2981.01 Type DGL81 Bo de, Gebus 555 built in 1954 or 1955) was added. A small handcar and two or three freight cars were also available. Initially, a brand new class 52 steam locomotive was also in use. Most of the goods were delivered with their own locomotives, but on wagons from other railway administrations. After the railway was closed, the WR 360 was taken over by GKB and the GEBUS locomotive by Robert Metzger & Co.
business
Construction of the Kaprunbahn began in 1940. The partial start of operation took place in August 1941, the completion in April 1943. During the construction of the Tauern power plants, the railway was mainly used to transport cement , which was then reloaded into a cable car on its way to be brought to the barrier construction sites. Heavy goods such as generators and transformers were also brought to their destination with it.
During the period of operation in the 1960s there was at least one pair of freight trains on weekdays, with which diesel was brought in for the company's own filling station and other goods. In particular, during this period, generators or transformers (for repairs) could only be transported by train. After the major fire in the power plant at the end of the 1960s, the last major transports of this type were made by rail. After the railway was shut down, a road bridge had to be reinforced for heavy transport.
literature
- Manfred Hohn : 56 railways in the construction of the Glockner-Kaprun power plant group . Phoibos Verlag, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-85161-028-4 .
- Announcements of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies, Volume 140 (2000), HEINRICH HARRER: The connecting railway of the Tauernkraftwerke AG Kaprun
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.rangierdiesel.de - Locomotive portrait
- ↑ GEBUS Lokomotiv-Werke
- ↑ non-public inclined elevators of Tauernkraft AG in the Kapruner Tal ( memento of March 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) - inclined elevators in the Kapruner Tal