Local railway Gmunden – Vorchdorf

Local railway Gmunden – Vorchdorf
Tramlink 123 between Gmunden Seebahnhof and Lembergweg (2016)
Course book route (ÖBB) :	161
Route length:	17.862 km
Gauge :	1000 mm ( meter gauge )
Power system :	750 volts  =
Maximum slope :	100  ‰
Minimum radius :	50 m
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend Gmunden tram Gmunden Seebahnhof (until 2014) Gmunden Seebahnhof (since 2014) 425  m above sea level A. (until 2010 three-rail track) 0.000 Gmunden Traundorf (narrow gauge, until 1990) 0.200 Gmunden Traundorf (from 1990 to 2014) Gmunden Weyer Castle 1.084 Lembergweg (until 2010 three- rail track) 1,825 Engelhof local railway former Trauntalbahn to Lambach (standard gauge) 2,886 Baumgarten-Waldbach 484  m above sea level A. 3,596 Under the forest 4,317 Gschwandt- Rabesberg 512  m above sea level A. 4,800 Gschwandt school 5,954 New hub 499  m above sea level A. 6,908 Karl z'Neuhub 8.232 Iron gates 525  m above sea level A. 9.791 Laizing 486  m above sea level A. 10.659 Kirchham place 11,154 Kirchham 464  m above sea level A. 12.713 Hawk ears 13.015 Outer Laudach 13,040 Weidach 13,930 Eggenberg Castle 14.684 Vorchdorf 416  m above sea level A. Local train to Lambach

The local railway Gmunden – Vorchdorf (formerly Traunseebahn), marketed as the Traunseetram since it was connected and merged with the Gmunden tram in 2018 , is a meter-gauge local railway in Upper Austria . It has been running between Gmunden train station (ÖBB) and Vorchdorf train station since September 1, 2018 .

history

Separation of the two gauges above Gmunden, on the right the track to Gmunden Traundorf, 1986

Debt for 200 kroner from the Gmunden-Vorchdorf local railway dated July 26, 1912

With a document dated April 20, 1911, the municipality of Gmunden was granted the 90-year-old concession to build and operate a narrow-gauge local railway from Gmunden to Vorchdorf. The railway was opened to public transport on March 21, 1912 within the one-year manufacturing period required by the license.

The local railway is operated with 750  volts direct current. It is owned by the local railway Gmunden-Vorchdorf AG, founded on April 27, 1912. The operation is led by Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH , the company that was responsible for the construction management and that, as part of the line planning, had the intention of introducing electrical lighting systems in the villages touched by the railway (as well as in Altaussee ) and two closest commercial enterprises also to provide working power.

Of the 14.9 kilometers of the route, two kilometers were run together with the ÖBB route as a three -rail track . Until 1990, the railway began in what was then the Gmunden-Traundorf station on the route of the Budweis – Linz – Gmunden horse-drawn railway . Then the terminal was moved to the Seebahnhof. The current stops at Gmunden-Traundorf and Lembergweg have been newly created.

On September 8, 2008, a modern low-floor vehicle , a Bombardier Cityrunner - No. 305 of the Innsbruck tram (IVB) - which was loaned to the Traunseebahn for 28 days, was unloaded on the tracks of the main workshop in Vorchdorf . Two days later the car was put into operation and then various tests such as brake measurements and test drives were carried out. On September 27, the vehicle was presented to the public at the newly built Unterm Wald stop . After the vehicle was presented and the new stop was opened, the vehicle completed a test drive at 70 km / h. After that, the Cityrunner was used in passenger service until September 4th before it was loaded again the next day and transported to Gmunden. Three years later, the IVB's 307 and 320 were awarded to Stern and Hafferl for four years. IVB had procured several railcars in advance for future extensions. Since these plans have been postponed, the Tw were only needed again in Innsbruck from 2015. Passenger operations began on September 19, 2011 after test drives and a press conference. Until the delivery of their own new railcars in March 2016, the two Cityrunners carried the brunt of the traffic. The railcars ET 23.111 and 112 were available as replacement vehicles and for reinforcements in school traffic.

Renovation work has been carried out since 2008, for which a total of 3.5 million euros was available from the state of Upper Austria . In addition to the replacement of sleepers, ballast and tracks, some stops were also refurbished, with new, 65-meter-long platforms and shelters. In addition, the local railway received three new traffic lights at the route kilometers 9.845, 11.910 and 13.262.

A connection with the Gmunden tram was planned from the start. But it wasn't until 2006 that the merger was decided. First of all, the existing tram line was renovated, then its extension to Rathausplatz and, subsequently, the connection with the Traunseebahn was tackled. There was a delay in 2015 when opponents of road construction appealed against the expansion and linking measures to the administrative court. The operating facilities of the Traunseebahn have been adapted so that continuous journeys from Vorchdorf-Eggenberg to Gmunden train station are possible. After renovation work on the local railway line, the maximum speed could be increased in sections, which had a positive effect on the travel time. The renovation of the route reduced the travel time to 26 minutes compared to 2008. In addition, an almost hourly service was introduced. In addition, the three-rail track was dismantled in 2010 because the ÖBB had given up its route to the Seebahnhof. Other stops were renovated and newly created. The last stage for improvements to the track structure and at the stops took place in summer 2011. These improvement measures were also characterized by increasing the maximum speed to 60 km / h in the relevant section of the route. The new Kirchham Ort stop was opened in October 2011, and the Innsbruck low-floor vehicles of the Bombardier Flexity Outlook type (see above) were also presented.

On March 10, 2014, construction work began to relocate the Seebahnhof as the first section of the connection to the Gmunden tram. It was put into operation on June 18, 2014. At the same time, the Gmunden Traundorf stop was abandoned due to the short distance to the new Seebahnhof. On December 13, 2014, the Seebahnhof – Klosterplatz section was opened as the first part of the connecting route.

In January 2014, Stern & Hafferl ordered eleven new low-floor articulated trams from Vossloh Kiepe . Some of the railcars are intended for the Attergaubahn . The vehicles are five-part, six-axle, 32 meters long and offer space for 183 passengers. They are produced in Vossloh Kiepe's Spanish plant in Valencia , which Stadler bought while the order was being carried out. The delivery of the vehicles began in December 2015. The last four vehicles delivered are no longer marked with "vossloh" on the outside.

With the timetable change in December 2014, Stern & Hafferl also switched this route almost completely to a regular schedule during the week , with departure from Gmunden Klosterplatz at around the hour and in Vorchdorf at half an hour. With the timetable change in December 2016, the route was completely switched over to a clocked timetable. A continuous hourly service was now offered on weekdays, while the Traunseebahn ran every 30 minutes during rush hour, and every two hours on Sundays and public holidays.

On March 12, 2016, the rollout of the new railcars and the inauguration of the new coach house were celebrated in Vorchdorf. After nostalgic and farewell trips with the “Trogener” and IVB railcars in the morning, the opening speeches and the vehicle christening took place. The maiden voyage took place from Vorchdorf to Gmunden Klosterplatz with vehicle number 121 “Traunsee”. Number 121 and number 122 “Traunstein” operated according to a special timetable until the end of operations. The railcars up to number 127 were delivered by August 2016, railcar 125 was transferred to the Attergaubahn on August 19, 2016 , followed by cars 124 and 126. The delivery of the railcars was completed in 2017 with the number 131. On September 29, 2017, the new Gmunden Schloss Weyer stop was opened near the castle of the same name.

On September 1, 2018, the connection through the city of Gmunden and the merger with the Gmunden tram was officially opened. Since then, direct trains have been running from Gmunden train station via Franz-Josef-Platz, Klosterplatz to the Seebahnhof and on to Vorchdorf. Since then, there has been a half-hourly service on weekdays and an hourly service on weekends along the entire route. The denser tram timetable in the urban area of ​​Gmunden was extended to Engelhof.

See also : “Merger” in the Gmunden Tramway article

Operation in the present

The Tramlink railcars have been in service since March 2016 . Since the merger with the Gmunden tram, the trains have been operating as OÖVV line 161 under the name Traunseetram. It is offered every half hour from Monday to Friday and every hour over the entire route on weekends. In the section Gmunden Bahnhof - Gmunden Engelhof there are two additional trains per hour.

The touristic themed trips “By train to the beer” and the “Bratlzug” are offered with scheduled trips. The 23.103 railcar, which was refurbished in 2008 and given a historical color scheme, is used for the "Hobby locomotive driver course".

route

All stations are demand stops , Gschwandt-Rabesberg, Gmunden Engelhof, Eisengattern and Gmunden tennis court are alternative points for train crossings . All Dodge are with relapse switch equipped. Most of the stops have a bus shelter, alongside old wooden buildings there are concrete houses and more modern versions made of glass. In Vorchdorf there is a connection to the standard gauge local railway Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg . The name Vorchdorf-Eggenberg is used for the standard gauge station, while the narrow-gauge section is only referred to as Vorchdorf.

The maximum speed allowed is 60 km / h. Most of the level crossings are secured with St. Andrew's crosses and stop signs ; seven level crossings have a traffic light system. The tracks are laid on wooden sleepers. Y-sleepers have also been installed since 2011 . In addition to a few concrete masts, the overhead line is mostly attached to wooden masts. The tracks of the Stern & Hafferl main workshop connect directly to the end of the line .

A new level crossing safety system has been in operation on the line since August 2017, which receives the switch-on command from the train by radio and reports back that the safety system is in order in the same way. By saving more expensive cabling, the costs for the upcoming upgrade of the level crossings are to be reduced.

In 2015, 321,165 passengers used this railway line.

vehicles

ET 23.104 in the Gmunden-Traundorf terminus (1983)

On the three-rail track above Gmunden (1977)

The railcars 23.111 and .112 taken over by WSB carried the main load of the operation until 2012, until March 2016 one of them was regularly used in school traffic (2016)

IVB railcar 307 on the tram section between Klosterplatz and Seebahnhof (2014)

Vossloh Tramlink 126 in Gmunden at the last stop at Klosterplatz (2016), the line number 161 is based on the corresponding course book number

See also : vehicles of the Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft

Overview of the vehicles used on the Traunseebahn:

number	Construction year	Manufacturer	Others
Railcar
23,103	1921	Graz wagon factory	Nostalgic vehicle
23,112	1954	SWS	Work railcar
121	2015	Vossloh	"Traunsee"
122	2016	Vossloh	"Traunstein"
123	2016	Vossloh	"Laudach"
127	2016	Vossloh
128	2016	(Vossloh)
129	2016	(Vossloh)	2017 in trial use on the Gmunden tram
130	2016	(Vossloh)
131	2017	(Vossloh)
Passenger cars
B4i 23.221	1899	SIG	Out of order, parked in Vöcklamarkt
B4bu 20.225	1919	SIG	Traunsteinbar - buffet car for special trips
Freight and rail wagons
N 23.421			Out of service
N 23.461			Out of service
N 23.462			Railway maintenance
Fcc 23.501			Ballast wagons for rail maintenance
N 26 462			Railway maintenance
Others
X 23,641	1913	Self-made	Tower car

Former vehicles (excerpt):

number	Construction year	Manufacturer	Others
Railcar
23.105	1954	ACMV	2016 sold to Switzerland
23.106	1954	ACMV	Scrapped in 2016
23,111	1954	SWS	Delivered to Attergaubahn in 2017 as a work railcar
B4i 20.224	1916	SIG	2015 sold to Romania
B4i 20.227	1916	SIG	2017 sold to Romania
124	2016	Vossloh	Transferred to the Attergaubahn in 2016
125	2016	Vossloh	Transferred to the Attergaubahn in 2016
126	2016	Vossloh	Transferred to the Attergaubahn in 2016
307	2007	Bombardier	2012–2016 borrowed from the IVB
320	2009	Bombardier	2011–2016 borrowed from the IVB

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  Vossloh Tramlink 122 in Eisengattern station (2016)

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  Nostalgic vehicle ET 23.103

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  Railcar ET 23.105 in Vorchdorf station in front of the main workshop

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  Maiden voyage with railcar no. 121 »Traunsee«

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  Summer car 23.221 in Vorchdorf

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  Low side car 23.461, parked in Kirchham

literature

• Stern & Hafferl - visions with tradition . GEG Werbung GmbH, publisher: Stern and Hafferl GmbH, Gmunden 2003, ISBN 3-9501763-0-6
• Walter Krobot, Josef Otto Slezak , Hans Sternhart: Narrow gauge through Austria. History and fleet of narrow-gauge railways in Austria from 1825 to 1975. 4th edition. Slezak Verlag, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-85416-095-X ( International Archive for Locomotive History. 3).
• Otfried Knoll: Gmunden – Vorchdorf Local Railway , Stern & Hafferl, Gmunden, 1987
• Otfried Knoll: 100 Years of the Traunseebahn Gmunden – Vorchdorf , Railway-Media-Group, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-902894-03-8
• The company Stern & Hafferl I . Helmut Weis, editor: Bahn im Bild, Volume 12, 1980

Movie

• SWR: Railway Romanticism - On Emperor's Track - Salzkammergut Railway Idyll (episode 628)

Web links

Commons : Lokalbahn Gmunden – Vorchdorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Current timetable in the ÖBB timetable
• The Traunseebahn
• Stern & Hafferl transport company

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Railway Atlas Austria 2005/2006 . Schweers + Wall, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89494-128-6 .
2. ↑ New Traunsee Tram put into operation on ORF Upper Austria from September 1, 2018, accessed on September 2, 2018.
3. ↑ Concession document of April 20, 1911 for the local railway from Gmunden to Vorchdorf. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe , year 1911, RGBl. 1911/82, pp. 285-290. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   Projected systems. Austria-Hungary. a) Austria. Gmunden. In:  Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna. Organ of the Association of Austrian and Hungarian Electricity Companies / Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna (and organ of the branch association Brno) / E. u. M. (E and M) electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna / E and M electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna from 1883 to 1938 / E and M electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Organ / journal of the Elektrotechnisches Verein Österreichs , year 1911, No. 22/1911 of May 28, 1911 (XXIXth year), p. 279, column 3; P. 280, column 1 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ A.-G. Local railway Gmunden-Vorchdorf. In:  Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna. Organ of the Association of Austrian and Hungarian Electricity Companies / Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna (and organ of the branch association Brno) / E. u. M. (E and M) electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna / E and M electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Journal of the Electrotechnical Association in Vienna from 1883 to 1938 / E and M electrical engineering and mechanical engineering. Organ / journal of the Elektrotechnisches Verein Österreichs , year 1912, no. 32/1912 of August 11, 1912 (XXX. Year), p. 452, column 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ↑ Construction news. (...) Upper Austria. (...) Vorchdorf. New electrical lighting systems. In:  Der Bautechniker , year 1911, No. 13/1911 of March 31, 1911 (XXXI. Year), p. 286, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ↑ Helmut Weis (Text): The company Stern & Hafferl I . ( Bahn in the picture , Volume 12). Peter Pospischil, Vienna 1980, OBV , p. 27.
7. ↑ Upper Austria's New: No. 168, August 29, 2008, p. 13.
8. ↑ ^{a b} page no longer available , search in web archives: Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft
9. ↑ Straßenbahn.tk
10. ^ Association Pro Gmundner Tram - General Assembly 2007
11. ↑ Regional Rail : Edition 3/2008, p. 44
12. ↑ Traunseebahn: Numerous improvement measures in summer. salzi.at, June 7, 2011, archived from the original on May 27, 2015 ; accessed on July 23, 2016 . 
13. ↑ stern.at: Traunseebahn: Premiere for “Flexity Outlook” at the opening of the bus stop in Kirchham ( Memento of the original from December 31, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed November 30, 2011
14. ↑ Press release from StH, accessed on May 16, 2014 ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 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. 
15. ^ OÖVV timetable for the Traunseebahn from June 18, 2014
16. ↑ Klosterplatz new in Gmunden - opening ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
17. ↑ Eurailpress.de: Austria: Gmunden orders trams from Vossloh Kiepe , January 28, 2014
18. ↑ Press release Stern & Hafferl: 11 ultra-modern traction vehicles for Stern & Hafferl ( memento of the original from March 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ↑ News. (No longer available online.) StadtRegioTram, archived from the original on March 12, 2016 ; accessed on March 12, 2016 . 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. , Section "Vehicle delivery!": "Unloading will start on Thursday, December 3, 2015 at approx. 8:00 am."  
20. ↑ Rollout of the new railcars & opening of the remise and workshop in Vorchdorf. StadtRegioTram Gmunden, accessed on March 12, 2016 . 
21. ↑ First tram link for the Attergaubahn successfully transferred!
22. ↑ Enthusiasm among neighbors: the Grünbergweg residential area has its own stop “Schloss Weyer” - Stern & Hafferl Verkehr. Accessed January 5, 2018 (German). 
23. ↑ LOK Report - Austria: Radio-supported security of level crossings has survived the trial phase . ( lok-report.de [accessed on January 5, 2018]).
24. ↑ In the previous year, more passengers on Austria's regional railways - mobility with a future. In: www.vcoe.at. VCÖ, accessed on April 29, 2016 . 
25. ↑ Salzkammergut: increase in passengers on local railways. In: www.nachrichten.at. April 21, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2016 .