New alpine railways

Map of the New Alpine Railways

The New Alpine Railways (a term used by politics and the media, not by legislation or administration) were a project of new north-south railway transversals in imperial Austria realized by the state from 1901 under the leadership of the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry after decades of discussion . The aim of the project was in particular the better connection of the international port of Trieste to the network of the kk state railways . The project was completed in 1909 with the opening of the Tauern Railway.

See: Political Mission .

The following routes were part of the project:

• Tauernbahn with Tauern tunnel
• Pyhrnbahn with Bosruck tunnel
• Karawankenbahn with Karawanken tunnel
• Wocheiner train with Wocheiner tunnel
• Karstbahn (Trieste Railway)
• Wechselbahn (part of the Aspangbahn )

See also

• History of the railroad in Austria

Web links

• Elmar Oberegger: On the railway history of old Austria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ RGBl. 1901/63. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1901, pp. 201–207. (Online at ANNO ).