Kufstein – Innsbruck railway line

	from Rosenheim
0.000	State border between Germany and Austria
	A 12 Inntal Autobahn , B 175 Wildbichler Strasse
2,339	Kufstein	482 m above sea level A.
	B 175 Tiroler Strasse
	to Schwoich
	A 12 Inntal Autobahn
4,710	Stimmersee (abandoned May 4, 1942)
6.617	Schaftenau
7.038	Sandoz (formerly Awanst )
7,041	Üst Kufstein 2
8,480	Langkampfen
	High-speed line from Brannenburg (planned)
	Shaftenau node (Abzw)
	High-speed route to the Radfeld junction (planned)
	A 12 Inntal Autobahn
10.0	Inn
11,600 11.809	Error profile (-209 m)
11,920	Kirchbichl	494 m above sea level A.
	B178
	Brixentaler Ache
	Wörgl and Primagas substation ( Awanst )
	Salzburg-Tyrolean Railway from Salzburg
16.027	Wörgl Hbf	505 m above sea level A.
	Wörgler Bach
17.300	Wörgl Terminal South	505 m above sea level A.
18,400	Wörgl Terminal North	505 m above sea level A.
18,500	Wörgl West Terminal (planned)	505 m above sea level A.
18,950	Wörgl Terminal West	506 m above sea level A.
	Wildschönauer Ache
22.308	Wörgl Kundl (Bft)	510 m above sea level A.
	Sandoz ( Awanst )
	High-speed route from the Schaftenau node (planned)
25.722	Radfeld node (Abzw)
	SFS according to the Stans node
28,327	Üst Radfeld 2
29,991	Rattenberg - Kramsach
	Rattenberg Tunnel (182 m)
31.303	Brixlegg	524 m above sea level A.
	Montanwerke ( Awanst )
	Inn
	Kramsach sawmill
36.027	Üst Brixlegg 2
37.181	Münster - Wiesing	526 m above sea level A.
	SFS
	Underpass A 12 (190 m)
	B181
	High-speed route
	Underpass A 12
	Zillertal Railway from Mayrhofen

	Freight traffic transition (lane change, reloading on trolleys )

	Achenseebahn from Seespitz
40.882	Jenbach	530 m above sea level A.
41.509	Relocation of the existing route
	Runoff from the Achensee power plant
	High-speed route from the Radfeld node
44.293	Stans node (Abzw)
	High-speed route to Fritzens-Wattens 2
44.580	Üst Jenbach 2
45.712	Stans near Schwaz
45.948	Stans near Schwaz (until August 14, 2011)
45.795	Stansertunnel (634 m)
	Stans Bach
	A 12 Inntal Autobahn
	High-speed route
46.429
46.869	End of relocation of the existing line
48,360	black	538 m above sea level A.
	Vomper Bach
51.694	Pill-Vomperbach Lst ( Awanst )
51.694	Pill - Vomperbach	544 m above sea level A.
52.721	Üst Schwaz 2
	A 12 Inntal Autobahn
54.267	Üst Schwaz 3
55.231	Terfens-Weer
59.067	Fritzens-Wattens	555 m above sea level A.
61,339	Volders-Baumkirchen
	SFS
	SFS from Node Stans
62,361	Fritzens-Wattens 2 (Abzw)
	Innsbruck bypass to Innsbruck 1
63.822	Practice Fritzens-Wattens 3
66,606	Hall in Tirol (1944–1974: Solbad Hall)
68.682	Hall-Thaur (since December 10, 2017)
70.093	rum
71.210	Üst Hall in Tirol 3
72,426	Smoke Mill ( Awanst )
	Inn
~ 74.0	Innsbruck Messe-Saggen (planned opening December 2021)
	to Innsbruck Fbf
75.130	Innsbruck Central Station	582 m above sea level A.
	to Bludenz
	to Bolzano / Bozen

The Kufstein – Innsbruck railway (also known as the Lower Inn Valley Railway ) is a double-track, electrified main railway in Austria , which was originally built as the Imperial and Royal North Tyrolean State Railway . It begins at the state border near Kufstein and continues the route from Rosenheim and leads in Tyrol along the Inn to Innsbruck . The line is part of the European TEN axis Berlin-Palermo . The owner and operator is ÖBB Infra .

history

The line was opened as the first western Austrian railway line on November 24, 1858, after its construction had been ordered by Emperor Franz Joseph I in 1853 . The 150th anniversary was celebrated in Wörgl in 2008 .

In the first Austrian republic, the line was the responsibility of the Innsbruck Federal Railway Directorate . After Austria was annexed in 1938, it operated briefly as the Innsbruck Railway Directorate before it was dissolved on July 15, 1938. The route was subordinated to the Reichsbahndirektion Munich . After 1945 the ÖBB was re-established, the management structure from the time before 1938 was re-established, including the Federal Railway Directorate Innsbruck.

Expansion measures

Track marking and kilometrage at Radfeld

With a view to increasing the capacity of the line and in anticipation of the construction of the Brenner Base Tunnel , a new high-performance line was built between the Kundl 1 junction and the rebuilt Fritzens - Wattens 1 junction (near Baumkirchen ), which has been used by trains as scheduled since December 9, 2012 . This runs in large parts in tunnels so that the Inn Valley, which is already heavily polluted by noise, is not affected even more. The upgraded route is designed for mixed traffic up to 220 km / h. The second section of the expansion program for the Lower Inn Valley Railway Brannenburg - Schaftenau --Kundl / Radfeld is in the planning phase.

At the end of 2009, the route-finding process between Schaftenau and Kundl, which had been running since 2005, was completed. On the basis of a feasibility study from 1993, 17 variants north and south of the Inn valley and in the valley floor were explored. After a pre-selection in 2008, four options were examined in depth. The chosen route runs in a westerly direction before Kundl in a ten kilometer long tunnel and a chain of further troughs and tunnels. At Schaftenau (south of Kufstein), the line is to be linked to the existing line.

ETCS Level 2 went into operation between Wörgl and Innsbruck in 2012 .

Start of the railway line at km 0
Integration of Baumkirchen

Web links

Commons : Kufstein – Innsbruck railway line - collection of images, videos and audio files

ÖBB information about the "New Lower Inn Valley Railway"

literature

Martin Pellizzari: Brenner railway axis: North access route 1996–2012: Documentation, experiences . 1st edition. Haymon, Innsbruck 2012, ISBN 978-3-7099-7034-8 .

Individual evidence

↑ Greater Innsbruck: Six new stops - tirol.ORF.at. In: tirol.orf.at. January 15, 2014, accessed March 28, 2016 .
^ "Milestone" for ÖBB: S-Bahn stop Innsbruck-Messe fixed. In: tt.com. May 16, 2019, accessed May 18, 2019 . Austria: Starting shot for the new Innsbruck Messe stop. In: lok-report.de. April 30, 2020, accessed May 1, 2020 .
↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of August 6, 1938, No. 36. Announcement No. 488, p. 213.
↑ Report route selection completed . In: Der Eisenbahningenieur , Volume 64, November 2009 issue, p. 65.
^ Roman DOWN, Gerhard Fritze: The EU test of the GSM-R network of the ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG according to the TSI ZZS . In: signal + wire . tape 108 , no. 6 , 2015, ISSN 0037-4997 , p. 40-47 .

47.2632776 11.4010086Coordinates: 47 ° 15 '47.8 " N , 11 ° 24' 3.6" E

[1] Greater Innsbruck: Six new stops - tirol.ORF.at. In: tirol.orf.at. January 15, 2014, accessed March 28, 2016 .

[2] "Milestone" for ÖBB: S-Bahn stop Innsbruck-Messe fixed. In: tt.com. May 16, 2019, accessed May 18, 2019 . Austria: Starting shot for the new Innsbruck Messe stop. In: lok-report.de. April 30, 2020, accessed May 1, 2020 .

[3] Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of August 6, 1938, No. 36. Announcement No. 488, p. 213.

[4] Report route selection completed . In: Der Eisenbahningenieur , Volume 64, November 2009 issue, p. 65.

[sd-108-6-40-5] Roman DOWN, Gerhard Fritze: The EU test of the GSM-R network of the ÖBB-Infrastruktur AG according to the TSI ZZS . In: signal + wire . tape 108 , no. 6 , 2015, ISSN 0037-4997 , p. 40-47 .