Local railway Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg

Local railway Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg
Scheduled service vehicle ET 20.111 at Waldl
Course book route (ÖBB) :	160
Route length:	15.609 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	750 V  =
Maximum slope :	15  ‰
Minimum radius :	140 m
Top speed:	50 km / h
Legend Western Railway from Salzburg 0.0 Lambach 365  m above sea level A. Western Railway to Linz 1.2 AB to the terminal of the forwarding company Gartner 2.2 AB Felbermayer Traun 3.5 Stadl-Paura 365  m above sea level A. Trauntalbahn to Gmunden Seebahnhof 4.3 AB Buchinger 5.3 Fohlenhof (closed 06/11/1952) 6.7 Bad Wimsbach Styria settlement (closed in 2014) 6.9 Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting 375  m above sea level A. Wimbach 7.3 Bad Wimsbach Steinfeld 9.0 Au 10.0 Middle Au 10.6 Blankenberg 382  m above sea level A. 11.3 Waldl 11.8 Kößlwang 12.8 Feldham Vorchdorf industrial park 14.0 Vorchdorf School 14.7 Vorchdorf - Eggenberg 416  m above sea level A. Connecting line to the Eggenberg brewery Traunseebahn to Gmunden Seebahnhof

The Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg local railway , also known as the Vorchdorferbahn , is a regular-gauge local railway in Upper Austria . It runs between the Lambach and Vorchdorf- Eggenberg stations. In Lambach there is a connection to the western railway line Vienna – Linz – Salzburg.

The track is a total of 15.6 kilometers, of which 3.8 kilometers are on ÖBB tracks .

The local railway company Lambach-Vorchdorf-Eggenberg  AG is 72.5% owned by the federal government , 11% OÖ Verkehrsholding  GmbH, 9.4% market municipality Lambach , 3.3% market municipality Vorchdorf , and 2.7% is owned by Stern & Hafferl Verkehrs -GmbH , which also operates the railway, the rest is free float.

history

The project to build the railway line was presented in 1897 by the Stern & Hafferl company. Opened on September 13, 1903. The management was  handed over from the local railway AG to the kuk Staatsbahn, which handled the transport services with steam locomotives . The global economic crisis in 1930 and 1931 prompted the Lokalbahn AG to hand over management to the Stern & Hafferl company, which had become known for its economical but effective local railway operations. The company took over the management on May 1st, 1931 and began to switch from steam to electrical operation. On November 14, 1931, the line was fully electrified. Since then, it has been operated with 750  volts direct current . Until 1949 there was still a connection with the Lambach – Haag am Hausruck local railway at Lambach station . Furthermore, there was a connection to the Eggenberg brewery in the 1980s - the route at that time had a total length of 15.7 kilometers. This branch line was used for freight traffic.

In 2006, two vehicles were taken over from the Linz Local Railway , which had previously been bought by the Cologne transport company, and have since been used in scheduled service as required. On the occasion of the 1st Upper Austrian Future Festival, which took place in Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting , on May 31 and June 1, a modern low-floor vehicle of the type Stadler-GTW operated by Linz Local Railway ran every hour on loan .

On December 11, 2011, the new Vorchdorf industrial park stop went into operation.

Operation in the present

Timetable

At the timetable change on December 9, 2007, the route was largely, v. a. in the afternoon, switched to a regular schedule with the usual minute of symmetry . Previously there were only a few amplifier trips. The crossings take place in both Stadl-Paura and Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting.

Passenger volume

In 2015, 201,420 passengers used this railway line.

route

At Lambach station there is a connection from the Austrian Western Railway. The Au stop has the shortest stop name in Austria . In Vorchdorf- Eggenberg there is a connection to the narrow-gauge Traunseebahn . In addition, damaged vehicles can be transferred to the Stern & Hafferl main workshop at the terminus .

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  Traun bridge between Lambach and Stadl-Paura

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  Bad Wimsbach-Neydharting train station

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  Terminal station Vorchdorf-Eggenberg

Vehicle fleet

See also: vehicles of the Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft

Overview of the vehicles used on the Lambach - Vorchdorf – Eggenberg local railway:

number	Construction year	Manufacturer	Others
Locomotives
E 24.010	1910	Krauss Maffei	Freight train service on the LV local railway
Railcar
ET 24 101	1932	Graz wagon factory	ex ET 24 001, nostalgic vehicle
ET 24 103	1912	Graz wagon factory	ex ET 23 003, nostalgic vehicle
ET 20.109	1956	Rastatt wagon factory	Scheduled service vehicle
ET 20.111	1953	West car	Scheduled service vehicle
ET 22.133	1954	West car	borrowed from LILO, planned service vehicle
ET 22.136	1953	West car	borrowed from LILO, planned service vehicle
Control car
ES 22.233	1954	West car	borrowed from LILO, planned service vehicle
ES 22.236	1953	West car	borrowed from LILO, planned service vehicle
Freight and rail wagons
Kkkms 24,463	1939	Machine factory in Esslingen	Railway maintenance
X 512.04		Machine factory Tobisch Vienna	Tower wagons for rail maintenance, sold
X 20,641	1960	Maschinenfabrik Tobisch, Knotz	ex ÖBB 534.067, tower car for railway maintenance
Others
X 24,621			Tower car

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  Scheduled service vehicles ET 22.136 & ET 22.133

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  ET 20.109 in the main workshop

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  Nostalgic vehicle 24.103

future

Renovation work is to be carried out in 2008 in order to be able to meet the travel times and to increase passenger comfort. In addition, the Vorchdorf-Schule stop will be renovated and the level crossing at Lindacherstraße will be equipped with a traffic light system. The terminal station Vorchdorf-Eggenberg is being renovated and is to have toilet facilities for the disabled. In order to be able to continue the trains to Wels in the future , the acquisition of modern two-system vehicles is planned. A new substation is also to be built in Vorchdorf in order to supply new vehicles with sufficient electricity. The reconstruction of the station forecourt is also planned.

See also

• Vehicles of the Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft

literature

• Stern und Hafferl GmbH (ed.): Stern & Hafferl - Visions with tradition . GEG Werbung, Gmunden 2003, ISBN 3-9501763-0-6 .
• Stern und Hafferl GmbH (ed.): 100 years of the Lambach - Vorchdorf-Eggenberg local railway .
• Krobot, Slezak, Sternhart: Narrow-gauge through Austria . 4th edition, Verlag Slezak, 1991, ISBN 3-85416-095-X , p. OA
• Helmut Weis: The Stern & Hafferl company . I., Bahn im Bild series , Volume 12, 1980.

Web links

Commons : Lokalbahn Lambach-Vorchdorf-Eggenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Current timetable in the ÖBB timetable
• Official homepage of the Vorchdorferbahn
• Stern & Hafferl transport company

Individual evidence

1. ↑ companies bmvit.gv.at,
2. ^ Lit. The company Stern & Hafferl I, p. 5
3. ↑ Regional Rail : Edition 3/2008, p. 45
4. ↑ New stop "Vorchdorf Gewerbegebiet" ( Memento of the original from June 23, 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. , stern.at
5. ↑ 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 . 
6. ↑ Salzkammergut: increase in passengers on local railways. In: www.nachrichten.at. April 21, 2016. Retrieved April 29, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Regional Rail: Edition 3/2008, page 45