Local railway Lambach – Gmunden
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Route number (ÖBB) : | 259 01 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 27.1 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lambach – Stadl-Paura, Engelhof – Gmunden: 750 = |
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The Lambach – Gmunden local railway is a single-track railway line in Upper Austria that runs from Lambach via Laakirchen to Gmunden . It was created in 1857–1859 from the Lambach – Gmunden section of the Budweis – Linz – Gmunden horse-drawn railway .
The 3.5 km long Lambach – Stadl-Paura section is also part of the Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg local railway and is electrified. The line between Engelhof and Gmunden is also electrified and was equipped with a three- rail track to enable the meter-gauge local railway Gmunden – Vorchdorf to use it. The 21.6 km long central section Stadl-Paura-Engelhof has only been used by freight traffic since 1988.
history
First railway company
In the years 1835 and 1836 a line from Linz via Lambach to Gmunden was built as a southern extension of the Budweis – Linz horse-drawn tram , which largely followed the course of the Traun River. Initially, the connection of the First Railway Company with a track width of 1,106 mm was also operated with horses, before steam locomotives gradually took over the service in 1855 and 1856. The EEG - Marchtrenk to Zizlau were among the first used locomotives .
Due to the route Vienna – Linz – Lambach – Salzburg ( Westbahn ) of the kk privileged Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn (KEB), competition arose from the former horse-drawn railway, which in 1857 led to the takeover of the First Railway Company by the KEB. In 1859 a connecting track was built between the two previously separate Lambach train stations of the former horse-drawn railway and the Kaiserin-Elisabeth railway, and the Lambach – Linz horse-drawn railway section was closed.
State Railways
In 1884 the KEB was nationalized. In the same year, the trolley service was started between Lambach and Gmunden , with which the previously necessary reloading of the goods in Lambach could be omitted. In 1903 the track width of the line was finally changed from 1,106 mm to standard gauge .
On September 13, 1903, the local railway Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg , which branches off in Stadl-Paura and uses the track of the Lambach – Gmunden local railway between Lambach and Stadl-Paura, was put into operation. The operation of the branch line was initially subject to the state railway, before the Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft was commissioned to do so on May 1, 1931 . The new operator carried out the electrification of the Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg connection with the 750 V = power system by November 14, 1931 .
The Gmunden – Vorchdorf ( Traunseebahn ) local railway , which opened on March 21, 1912, was operated by Stern & Hafferl from the start . The narrow-gauge railway, also electrified with 750 V = , runs between Engelhof and Gmunden on the route of the Lambach – Gmunden local railway, which was provided with a three-rail track there until 2009. Until 1990 the trains from Vorchdorf ended at the Gmunden-Traundorf station, then at the Seebahnhof. The local railway has been linked to the Gmunden tram since autumn 2018 and the trains now end at Gmunden station.
The Austrian Federal Railways discontinued their passenger services between Lambach and Gmunden Seebahnhof on 28 May 1988th The last passenger train (P 3160) operated with the three-part rail bus set 5081.016 + 7081.023 + 6581.067 to Lambach. Since then, ÖBB passenger trains have served Gmunden exclusively via the main train station on the Salzkammergut Railway in the west of the city .
The ÖBB had its own operations on the Engelhof – Gmunden Seebahnhof section formally ceased on February 3, 2009. The link at Engelhof station was separated and the three-rail track dismantled.
In the spring of 2015, the route between Oberweis station and Engelhof was interrupted by the construction of the Gmunden east bypass. The route was discontinued on March 12, 2015. Freight traffic to Engelhof has been suspended since then, and a bridge would have to be built to restart. There are also plans to resume passenger traffic between Gmunden and Laakirchen via an extension of the Gmunden-Vorchdorf municipal regional railway . The route would have to be equipped with a meter gauge track.
In terms of freight traffic, the route now serves primarily to supply two paper mills in Steyrermühl and Laakirchen. The loading of gravel in Steyrermühl is also important.
Vehicle use
Narrow-gauge steam locomotives for the Linz – Gmunden line | ||||||
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number | First name | design type | Construction year | Manufacturer | kkStB -Rh | Remarks |
1-10 | LINZ | 2B n2 | 1854-1855 | Wr. Neustadt | - | |
11-14 | MARCHTRENK | 1C1 n2 | 1855-1856 | Wr. Neustadt | - | |
Bt n2 | 1883 | Krauss / Munich | G 1-4 | |||
1Bt n2 | 1895 | Krauss / Linz | Gv 1-4 | after re-gauging to 1435 mm kkStB 189 |
literature
- II. The locomotives of the Linz-Gmunden narrow-gauge railway. (With three illustrations). In: Die Lokomotive , year 1926, No. 4 (April) / 1926 (XXIII. Year), pp. 28–31. (Online at ANNO ). .
- Peter Wegenstein (text), Helmut Bogner (photo): Upper Austrian railway potpourri . This volume deals with the routes Wels Hauptbahnhof – Haidling – Aschach an der Donau, Wels Hauptbahnhof – Sattledt – Rohr – Bad Hall, Sattledt – Grünau im Almtal, Lambach – Gmunden Seebahnhof and Vöcklamarkt – Kammer-Schörfling . Bahn im Bild, Volume 203, ZDB -ID 52827-4 . Pospischil, Vienna 1999, OBV .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Austrian Railway Atlas . Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89494-128-6 , p. 32-33 .
- ^ Karl Weigl: Passenger transport Lambach - Gmunden Seebahnhof discontinued , in: Eisenbahnverkehr Aktuell 7/88, p. 7
- ↑ Answer to question 1270 / AB (XXIII. GP) of the Austrian National Council to the BMVIT
- ^ Rail Control (Ed.): Annual report . 2015, p. 73 ( parlament.gv.at [PDF]).
- ↑ Soon local railway between Gmunden and Laakirchen? Upper Austrian News from November 6, 2014
- ↑ "Transport secured for ten years" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - ÖBB press release from December 11, 2007