Local railway Göpfritz – Raabs
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 Raabs an der Thaya train station
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| Route number : | 175 01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 19.5 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 27 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 140 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 40 km / h | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Göpfritz – Raabs local line was a branch line in the Lower Austrian Waldviertel . It led from Göpfritz an der Wild via Groß-Siegharts to Raabs an der Thaya .
history
The line was originally planned in 1890 as a narrow-gauge railway Göpfritz an der Wild - Mährisch Budwitz (71 km) and approved by a decree of August 7, 1890 by the Austro-Hungarian Ministry of Commerce, whereupon the route was revised on September 10, 1891. Due to objections from the municipality of Raabs an der Thaya and the General Directorate of the Imperial and Royal State Railways, this narrow-gauge project was not implemented.
On February 16, 1894, Rudolf Graf van der Straten, Richard Baron Suttner, Josef Adensamer ( industrialist ) and the Groß-Siegharts community received a concession document with the right to build a standard-gauge local railway from the Göpfritz station on the Vienna - Eger state railway to Groß-Siegharts with possible continuation to Raabs an der Thaya. On August 18, 1895, the birthday of Emperor Franz Josef , the route to Groß-Siegharts was officially opened.
When the line was continued, disagreements regarding the terminus at Oberndorf bei Raabs or Raabs an der Thaya were ended in the autumn of 1899 when construction began on the Groß-Siegharts - Raabs an der Thaya line. The concession was granted on June 21, 1899 and the line opened on October 14, 1900.
The outbreak of the First World War prevented the originally planned expansion of the route from Raabs an der Thaya via Drosendorf to Znaim . This connection was pre-licensed on July 1, 1897, but never realized.
On January 1, 1930, the line was nationalized in accordance with the announcement of the Ministry of Commerce and Transport of October 12, 1929.
business
The first scheduled train on the Göpfritz an der Wild - Groß-Siegharts route was train no .: 3052, it ran on August 19, 1895 with locomotive 9779 and 5 carriages with 27 passengers, departure from Groß-Siegharts station at 04:00 Arrival at Göpfritz train station at 4:36 a.m. The first scheduled train on the Raabs an der Thaya - Groß-Siegharts route ran on October 15, 1900 with locomotive 9791 and 3 wagons, departure from Raabs an der Thaya station at 3:10 a.m., arrival at Göpfritz station at 4:36 a.m. with engine driver Michael Renner and stoker Alois Reck at the driver's cab.
The Groß-Siegharts station was converted into a stopping and loading point on January 1, 1979, and the Raabs an der Thaya station into a manager's station and placed under the Göpfritz station.
The passenger was, as on several other routes in the forest area , set on September 28, 1986, the remaining freight until the year 2001. Finally, the warehouses of agricultural cooperatives were still operated in Groß Siegharts and Raab. The line was dismantled from May 2013. The dismantling work began at the Raabs / Thaya train station.
vehicles
From 1927 the four-axle diesel multiple unit VT 12.02 operated .
The few trains between 1970 and 1992 were mainly run by the 2045 series diesel locomotive or, in steamy times, by the ubiquitous 93 series. After 1992, the 2043/2143 series ran on this route until the end of full operation. The last official operation of the route took place on September 27, 2000 (potato transport).
future plans
For the 2009 Austrian national exhibition . Czech Republic. divided - separated - united in Raabs, an attempt has been made to revive the route with a tourist train similar to the phylloxera express . However, this project was not implemented because it could never be clarified how the route would continue to be used after the state exhibition.
In the spring of 2009, the neighboring communities were considering taking over the railway line from the ÖBB and reusing it as a cycle or hiking trail. In 2010 this idea was taken up again in a joint project “ Thayarunde-Radweg ” including the Thayatalbahn and after clarifying the financing, the route has been demolished and redesigned since 2013.
At the end of July 2013, the station building (reception building) and the warehouse in Raabs / Thaya were demolished. A short time later, the former station building in Groß-Siegharts had to give way. The demolition work began here on August 19, 2013. By 2015, all buildings and the track system itself had been removed.
Web links
- Course book 1944
- BR 2045.001 in Raabs
- BR 2045.20 in Raabs
- BR 2045.013 in Groß Siegharts
- Photos from the local railway to the final setting
- Article about the Thaya Cycle Path (in Czech)
- Query response on disused railway lines (page 3)
- Thayarunde 1st stage
- Photo ride on a few meters of the local train
- With the local train to Raabs
