Laaer Ostbahn

Laaer Ostbahn (Vienna – Laa an der Thaya)
Route number (ÖBB) :	116 01
Course book route (ÖBB) :	902
Route length:	92.546 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	Vienna – Laa / Thaya: 15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	13  ‰
Minimum radius :	263 m
Top speed:	140 km / h
Dual track :	Vienna Central Station - Wolkersdorf Mistelbach - Mistelbach City (planned)
Legend from Vienna Central Station , Südbahn 101.778 Vienna Hbf-Südosttangente 101.830 1.830 Km break Eastern Railway to Hegyeshalom 2.746 Simmering main workshop (closed in 1900) 2.9 Start of ETCS L2 3.373 Vienna Simmering from Vienna central shunting yard 4.957 Vienna Haidestrasse Simmering power station connection line   & Steyr Daimler Puch 5.450 Vienna Erdbergerlände Connecting line Wiener Linien & Linde Gas 5,900 Ostbahnbrücke ( Danube Canal ) (53 m) 7.534 Vienna Praterkai Donauuferbahn Stadlauer Ostbahnbrücke (Danube) (759 m) Oil port railway from Vienna Lobau oil port 8,588 Vienna Lobau (until December 13, 2014) Vienna Stadlau 10,552 Vienna Stadlau freight station 11,300 Vienna Erzherzog-Karl-Strasse Marchegger Ostbahn to Marchegg 11.977 Vienna Stadlau-Nord 13,902 Vienna Breitenleer Strasse (formerly Kagran ÖBB) 14.878 Breitenlee (closed November 20, 1921) 15.510 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) MA 48 from Vienna Breitenlee marshalling yard Vienna Süßenbrunn-Mitte Northern runway from Vienna Floridsdorf Vienna Süßenbrunn-West Süßenbrunn disinfection station Vienna Süßenbrunn Northern railway to Břeclav End of ETCS L2 18.732 Gerasdorf 21,325 Kapellerfeld 23,000 Seyring 23.373 Üst Gerasdorf 2 26.722 Obersdorf Stammersdorfer local railway 28,598 Wolkersdorf 31,880 Ulrich churches 34.099 Schleinbach 37.896 Hautzendorf 41.515 Niederkreuzstetten 44,470 Neubau-Kreuzstetten 50.089 Shop village 220 m 52,435 Paasdorf Local railway from Korneuburg Local train from Gänserndorf 55.633 Mistelbach 210 m Mistelbach local train station Local train to Hohenau 56.220 Mistelbach city 210 m 61.907 Siebenhirten Lower Austria 241 m 63,425 Hörersdorf 66,526 Frättingsdorf 263 m 70.918 Enzersdorf near Staatz 238 m Local train to Poysdorf 74.937 Staatz 218 m 77.017 Kottingneusiedl Pulkau Valley Railway from Novosedly Pulkautalbahn to Zellerndorf 82,460 Laa an der Thaya 184 m ~ 84.3 State border between Austria and the Czech Republic Route to Brno

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 '  N , 16 ° 23'  E

The Laaer Ostbahn , formerly Ostbahn (northern line) , is a partially double-track, electrified main line in Austria , which is now operated by the Austrian Federal Railways . It leads from Vienna north to Laa an der Thaya and runs through the Weinviertel .

history

The line was designed by the kk privileged Austro-Hungarian State Railroad Company (StEG) as part of a continuous main line from Vienna via Brno and Prague to Bodenbach . It was opened on November 24, 1870. The route, which was planned to consist of two tracks throughout, was, however, only expanded to two-track as far as Gerasdorf ; the rest of the route was designed as a single-track on a double-track substructure. The route ran from Vienna Ostbahnhof via Wolkersdorf , Mistelbach , Laa an der Thaya to Grußbach in Moravia and then via Mährisch-Kromau to Brno . In 1909 the kk Staatsbahnen (kkStB) took over the StEG.

After 1945 the line was interrupted at the state border between Laa an der Thaya and Hevlín ( Höflein ). After the fall of the Iron Curtain, closing the gap was repeatedly requested by both sides, but has not yet been implemented. Since 1983, the S2 line of the Vienna S-Bahn has served the Gerasdorf – Mistelbach route. For this purpose, two loops were built in the Süßenbrunn area from the Northern Railway to the Laaer Ostbahn. The section Vienna Südbahnhof - Vienna Erzherzog-Karl-Straße is now covered by the S80 line.

In 2005 the line between Gerasdorf and Wolkersdorf was expanded to two tracks and a quarter-hour cycle was set up between Vienna and Wolkersdorf during rush hour. In addition, the section Vienna Südbahnhof - Wien-Breitenleer-Straße was reinforced by the newly created S8 S-Bahn line. After the electrification of the Mistelbach – Laa an der Thaya line in 2006, the S-Bahn was extended to Laa. Since then, the entire Vienna – Laa route has been electrified and equipped with continuous track switching. A double-track expansion of the Mistelbach – Mistelbach Stadt line is planned. After its completion should all trains from Vienna that were previously in the station Mistelbach ended until Mistelbach city be extended. In Obersdorf you can also change to the local railway to Groß-Schweinbarth , the only branch line of the Laaer Ostbahn still in operation. Passenger traffic on this was discontinued on December 15, 2019.

On December 12, 2010, the Vienna Breitenleer Straße stop (originally: Breitenlee; later: Breitenlee-Kagran; then: Kagran; then: Kagran ÖBB to differentiate it from Kagran U1) was closed.

ETCS Level 2 has been active between Vienna Hbf and Gerasdorf since October 20, 2014 . With the timetable change at the end of December 2014, the Vienna Lobau station was closed.

passenger traffic

On the Laaer Ostbahn, according to the timetable that came into force on December 9, 2012, you can travel from Wiener Neustadt Hauptbahnhof via the Südbahn and the S-Bahn main line (with the Wien Hauptbahnhof stop , platforms 1 and 2, underground and the train station Vienna Floridsdorf ) Trains on line S2 to Mistelbach and Laa an der Thaya and back. There is currently no local public transport on the innermost branch of the Laaer Ostbahn from Vienna Erzherzog-Karl-Straße to Gerasdorf , long-distance trains run between Vienna Central Station and Süßenbrunn in the direction of Břeclav and on to Poland, the Czech Republic and Germany, which also stopped in Simmering until December 2014 .

Closing the gap to the Czech Republic

Since the end of the Second World War (1945), there has been no connection between the end of the line immediately north of the Laa train station and the end of the Hevlin-Hrušovany branch line of the Hevlín-Brno line. The missing two kilometers of the route, which also include a bridge over the Thaya , were not restored even after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

From the political side there has always been relatively little interest in reactivating the connection, since both Austria and the Czech Republic attach little importance to a continuous railway line. Local politicians from Laa in 2007 were of a different opinion, hoping that this would revitalize Therme Laa. The Jungbunzlauer Austria AG , for a rail connection to the northern neighbor "would be very important," spoke out according to a newspaper report for the gap closure.

Picture gallery

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  Wolkersdorf station

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  Enzersdorf near Staatz train station

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  Staatz train station

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  ÖBB 1116 + double-deck push-pull train in Laa adTh.

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  1216.210 "Kapsch" with EC 173 in Vienna Praterkai

literature

• Zdeněk Hudec u. a .: Atlas drah České republiky 2006–2007 , 2nd edition; Publishing house Pavel Malkus, Praha, 2006, ISBN 80-87047-00-1
• Festkomitee (ed.): 100 years. STEG 1870 - 1970 ÖBB. Vienna-Stadlau-Marchegg. Vienna-Stadlau-Laa ad Thaya. Festschrift on the occasion of the anniversary , Vienna, 1970.

Web links

Commons : Laaer Ostbahn  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Course book 1944
• Pictures Bhf. Laa a. d. Thaya
• Current timetable of the ÖBB
• Photos of the signal boxes along the Laaer Ostbahn

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “Schweinbarther Kreuz”: VP throws off application. Retrieved November 14, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Schengen on news.at of November 27, 2007, accessed on June 8, 2010