Herzogenburg – Krems railway line

Kremser Bahn (Herzogenburg – Krems)
Route number (ÖBB) :	173 01
Course book route (ÖBB) :	820
Route length:	20.308 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	D4
Maximum slope :	17  ‰
Minimum radius :	244 m
Top speed:	80 km / h
Legend Tullnerfelder Bahn from St. Pölten 0.000 Herzogenburg 231  m above sea level A. Tullnerfelder Bahn to Tulln on the Danube 1.128 Herzogenburg-Wielandsthal 3.854 Ederding closed on April 22nd, 1932 7.459 Statzendorf 272  m above sea level A. 10,516 Meidling im Tal (until December 12, 2015) 10.999 Connecting railway gravel works Wanko ( AWANST ) 12,553 Paudorf 253  m above sea level A. 13.792 Klein Wien (until December 12, 2015) 15,000 Göttweiger Tunnel (135 m) 15.628 Furth-Göttweig 17.228 Furth- Palt 201  m above sea level A. 19.090 Palt taxi ferry abandoned Dec 21, 1951 19,700 Krems Railway Bridge Danube shore line from St. Valentin 20.308 Krems at the Donau 196  m above sea level A. Franz Josefs Bahn (Kremser Ast) to Absdorf-Hippersdorf

The Herzogenburg – Krems railway line is a single-track, non-electrified railway line in the Austrian state of Lower Austria . It connects Herzogenburg with Krems and leads through the valley of the Fladnitzbach and over the Statzendorfer Berg.

history

Plans to develop the north of St. Pölten by rail had existed since the Western Railway was opened in 1860 and stopped in St. Pölten. In 1865, however, the consortium responsible for the construction of the railway decided to use the Franz-Josefs-Bahn from Vienna to connect the areas north of the Danube to the railway network. In 1872 the wing railway to Krems and in 1885 the Tullnerfeld railway was built, which meant that only the gap to Krems was necessary. A connection from Furth to Traismauer was also planned, but was never realized.

In 1887 the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce in Vienna approved the application of the private Austrian Local Railway Company to build the Krems – Herzogenburg connection and on July 16, 1889 the line was opened together with the Kamptalbahn . The stations in Statzendorf and Furth-Palt are therefore identical in construction to the stations in Gars and Horn .

Military operations management

The railway line was operated from 1889 until the beginning of the First World War as a training course for the Korneuburg Railway Regiment , with 2 officers and 88 men being assigned to train and operate the railway line, who in turn were monitored by officials from the Imperial and Royal State Railways . Only officials of the Imperial and Royal State Railways were employed in the cash desk and station service.

Mining

The Imperial and Royal State Railways operated a quarry on Grünberg near Furth and the large granulite quarry of the Wanko gravel works that still exists today. This quarry was owned by the Imperial and Royal State Railways from 1896 to 1927. There is evidence that members of the railway regiment were deployed in the Grünberg quarry and carried out military drills.

In the vicinity of Statzendorf, bright coal was mined until 1941 , transported by cable car to the sorting facility at Statzendorf station and then loaded onto the train.

expansion

According to the ÖBB framework plan for the “Target Network 2025+”, the electrification of the railway line was planned for 2017, which is expected to take two years and also includes widening / widening the Göttweiger Tunnel. The costs for this project amount to approximately 43.6 million euros. Due to time differences in rail projects across Austria, which were announced in 2018, expansion and electrification should not take place until 2025. At the end of June 2019 it was announced that the expansion and electrification should take place by 2027.

photos

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  Herzogenburg station , junction to the Tullnerfelder Bahn

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  Stop Herzogenburg-Wielandsthal

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  Statzendorf train station with a view of the Dunkelsteinerwald

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  Paudorf station

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  Furth-Palt train station, in Furth near Göttweig

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  View from the Krems district of Stein to the Krems railway bridge

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  The Krems railway bridge from the west

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  Krems station , here the line meets the Franz-Josefs-Bahn and Donauuferbahn

Individual evidence

1. ^ Memorandum on the planned railway from Vienna via Tulln, Wittingau, Budweis and Pilsen to Eger with a branch from Wittingau via Tabor to Prague (Kaiser Franz Josefs Bahn). Vienna, Carl Gerold's son, 1865.
2. ↑ Opening of two local railways. In:  Neue Freie Presse , July 18, 1889, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. unterirdisch.de - forum for underground, history and technology  
4. ↑ Kuk Eisenbahn picture album: The railways in the Austro-Hungarian monarchy on old views. Volume 2. Bohmann, 1993. Page 435
5. ↑ http://www.bmvit.gv.at/verkehr/vergleichverkehr/ausbauplan/projekte/2013_2018/noe2013.pdf
6. ↑ Savings: rail projects are delayed. In: ORF Lower Austria. ORF NÖ, March 28, 2018, accessed on September 29, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Local transport strengthen multi-million euro package for rail expansion. noen.at, June 23, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2019 . 

literature

Julius Meurer: Illustrated guide to the kk Österr. State railways, for the Absdorf-Hadersdorf, Hadersdorf-Sigmundsherberg, Hadersdorf-Krems, Krems-Herzogenburg routes. Issue 20, Vienna 1893.