Großgmain Museum Field Railway
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 Both trains of the Museumsfeldbahn in the "Flachgau" station
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| Route length: | 1.7 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 600 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Maximum slope : | 40 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||
| Minimum radius : | 30 m | ||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | 15 km / h | ||||||||||||||||
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The Großgmain Museum Field Railway is a narrow-gauge railway built for the transport of people in the Salzburg Open-Air Museum in Großgmain .
history
In order to make it easier for handicapped people to access the open-air museum on the one hand and to enable new views of the objects on the other hand, the museum management decided to build a light railway for the transport of people through the entire site. Construction was planned from 2007 onwards, and construction of the railway began in mid-2009, which lasted almost a year. In May 2010 the construction was finished, except for the little things (platforms, etc.) and the first test drives took place. The opening ceremony took place on June 13, 2010.
The management is incumbent on the Salzburger Lokalbahnen, a business unit of the Salzburg infrastructure company Salzburg AG responsible for rail traffic , the railway staff consists of volunteers and employees of the museum. The project was financed by the Salzburg Open Air Museum, the museum's friends' association and the Salzburg state government.
route
The railway is based on the model of a field railway , is 1.7 km long for passenger transport and has an additional operating track of 333 m in length. The train is driven on at a speed of around 15 km / h and has a track width of 600 mm. The steep route (40 ‰ gradient) has three stations, is laid out in several bends and has turning loops at the end stations. The stops were given the names of those Salzburg districts according to which the building objects in the museum are grouped. The "Flachgau" terminus at the museum entrance was faithfully recreated according to the plans of the "Zistelalpe" stop of the former Gaisbergbahn and inside contains an exhibition about the field railways in the state of Salzburg. A station building was erected at the middle station, the original of which stood at the “Söllheim” stop of the Salzkammergut local railway until 1957 . The terminus of the museum railway was given the old, original bus shelter of the former Murtalbahn stop in Lintsching ( Lungau ).
vehicles
The railway has three diesel locomotives and eight passenger cars. One of the diesel vehicles is of the type Schöma CHL-45G (built in 1988) and painted in the same ruby red as vehicles of the Salzburg local railway and bears the name Untersberg and the designation Vf 2; it was originally used in the construction of the Eurotunnel and most recently on the Bad Schwalbach spa railway . The other locomotive is of the type Schöma CHL-40G (built in 1995) and painted moss green like the bicycle train of the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn . It bears the name Gaisberg and the designation Vf 1. It was previously used on the works railway of the Diabase Quarry in Saalfelden , which was discontinued in 2008 and replaced by a standard-gauge siding . The two diesel locomotives were refurbished from 2009 to 2010 in the Schöma plant in Diepholz (Lower Saxony). On May 13, 2012, the third diesel locomotive (black, brand new) was put into operation with another Schöma CHL-40G, Großglockner, Vf 3.
The eight four-wheeled passenger cars of the Museumfeldbahn were rebuilt in the 1960s by the Mühlhäuser company in Michelstadt (Hesse) on the underframes of the former so-called "Kaprun Loren " of the Diabasbahn Saalfelden. These were previously used in copper mining in Mühlbach am Hochkönig and in the construction of the Glockner-Kaprun power plant group. The wagons are designed as open summer wagons and are fitted with air brakes on two wheels each . Each car is designed for 23 people, all passenger cars have a passenger emergency call system. Two of the carriages have wider entrances and are designed for the transport of prams and wheelchairs. In order to bridge the gap between the platform and the car, an insertable ramp is carried along in the two cars. These cars are always lined up at the end of the train.
In 2010 a steam locomotive of the type Las 49, which was built in Poland in 1957 , was on loan.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b "May the coal never run out" ( 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. , Article in the "Flachgauer Nachrichten", June 17, 2010.
- ^ Gunter Mackinger : New diesel locomotive in the Salzburg open-air museum. LOK Report, May 13, 2012, accessed June 2, 2012 .
literature
- Gunter Mackinger, Harald Waitzbauer : Forest, field and industrial railways in the state of Salzburg. Self-published by the Salzburg Open Air Museum, Salzburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9502797-1-9 .
Web links
- Article about the Museumfeldbahn on the homepage of the Salzburg Open Air Museum
- Harald Waitzbauer / Franz Straka: "With the Feld-Museumseisenbahn through the Salzburg Open Air Museum"
Coordinates: 47 ° 45 ′ 2.8 ″ N , 12 ° 57 ′ 5.8 ″ E