Lendcanaltramway
The Museumstramway Klagenfurt See (Lendcanaltramway) is a museum tram operated by the Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten (NBiK) association. It was built in 1976 near the Europapark in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in the Lendspitz nature reserve . Today it is in operation as an electric or horse tramway in the summer months .
The goal of the museum was to create a demonstration route for the tram vehicles rescued and reconditioned by the association. In 1975, 40 cars from European tram companies from different eras could be collected. In the summer of 1976, the 750 meter long route with four stops and a four-track coach house was built .
On weekends in summer from 1977 a company with horse power was offered; The Haflinger "Max" and closed sidecars of the former Innsbruck tram - line 4 were in use . At times, a restored summer car from the former Klagenfurt tram was also used. Because of the large wheelbase, this vehicle had major problems in the narrow "lumbar arch" and was only used sporadically after several derailments .
For shunting one was converted sprinter Rangiertraktor the former St. Pölten tram with a VW -Motor available. At the start of the route on the Lend Canal , a snack truck (“Zur Tramway” in a sidecar of the Stubaitalbahn ) established itself , the end of which offered an exhibition on local public transport in Klagenfurt .
Despite the involvement of volunteer staff, the company's success was modest. On the one hand, this was due to the remote location (the Europapark was not allowed to be touched, and the Lend Canal formed a natural barrier for the visitors), on the other hand, the end point was “nowhere”. From the end of the 1980s, the horse business was more and more discontinued in favor of an electric accumulator railcar due to the high costs . The shunting tractor was converted into a battery-powered multiple unit (No. 25) with seats in the club's own workshop. This means that a cost-saving "one-man operation" can now also be carried out.
After the NBiK association split off from the “Kärntner Museumsbahnen (KMB)” in 1990, this association took over the tramway operations.
2006 abandoned was ORF - medium-wave transmitter "lake" "once Klagenfurt - A journey in pictures" right next to the station "Lendcanal" a major exhibition under the title opened on public transport in Klagenfurt as well as the Wörthersee-shipping. Other projects are a garden railway and an expansion of the museum. The Klagenfurt Cinema Museum has emerged from the 2007 special exhibition entitled “Taking the Tramway to the Beginnings of Cinema” .
A first piece of track with historic trams from the year of foundation in 1891 marked the start of the “Seetramway” project in autumn 2008. There were repeated plans to expand the museum tramway to the Europapark , but these were canceled despite a fundamental decision by the Klagenfurt City Senate in April Discarded again in 2008 for budget reasons. In 2018, the NBiK association decided to let the Klagenfurt tram run on the route between the Ferlach Technology Museum Historama and the Ferlach train station in the future.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Klagenfurter See-Tramway will run in Ferlach in the future. In: www.mein Bezirk.at. Retrieved April 13, 2019 .
Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ N , 14 ° 15 ′ 24 ″ E