Vienna trolleybus

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Währinger Gürtel – Salmannsdorf
Route length: 5.9 km
Power system : 600 volts  =

The trolleybus Vienna was the trolleybus operation of the Austrian capital Vienna , locally also known as the trolleybus . There was only a single line from the Währinger Gürtel to Salmannsdorf , which was in operation from 1946 to 1958.

The responsible transport company was the Wiener Stadtwerke - Verkehrsbetriebe (WVB), which operates today as Wiener Linien . The trolleybus supplemented the Vienna tram operated by the same company and the city ​​bus service .

history

Already between 1908 and 1938 a trolleybus operated to Salmannsdorf, the trackless railway Pötzleinsdorf – Salmannsdorf . However, it had no line number and was operated by the private motor vehicle company of the municipality of Vienna . In addition, there was another trackless railway in the south of Vienna from 1909 to 1920, the Liesing – Kalksburg electrical overhead line .

From October 9, 1946, the Salmannsdorf district was finally served again by trolleybuses, from that day the 5.9 kilometer long line 22 - connected to the tram network or the belt line of the Viennese electric light rail - ran from the Währinger Gürtel via Oberdöbling and Neustift am Walde to Salmannsdorf. The trolleybus replaced the forerunner bus line 22 Pyrkergasse – Salmannsdorf, which was provisionally set up on May 20, 1946.

The catenary system was completed in 1943, the first catenary masts were erected in Krottenbachstraße in 1942, but could not be opened due to the war . A separate substation was built in Rathstrasse for the new means of transport , while on the Währinger Gürtel there was a shared power supply with the tram. In 1950 the substation in Obkirchergasse also went into operation.

A second trolleybus route planned as early as 1943 was to lead from Heiligenstadt to Klosterneuburg and be served by line 24. However, due to the Second World War, they could no longer be used.

Since a replacement bus service had already been set up several times in 1957 due to sewer construction work, the WVB switched line 22 to bus operation on December 3, 1958. The reason given was the renovation of the belt and road regulations in Neustift am Walde and Salmannsdorf and the associated costly changes to the overhead line system. The line signal was retained for the time being, it was only renamed to line 39A in 1961, and line 35A since 1972. Vienna was the first Austrian city to shut down a modern trolleybus operation before Klagenfurt in 1963, Graz in 1967, Leoben in 1973 and Innsbruck in 1976 followed the trend at the time.

Route description

The trolleybus followed the Währinger Gürtel, Döblinger Hauptstraße , Billrothstraße, Krottenbachstraße , Rathstraße, Neustift am Walde and Hameaustraße. At the Währinger Gürtel, the turning loop was in front of the Gürtel tram depot , where the trolleybuses were also housed. In Salmannsdorf, where the new trolleybus route was identical to the former Gleislose Bahn for the last 500 meters, the turning loop was then as it is today at the confluence of the street An der Zwerchwiese. The route of line 22 thus largely corresponded to today's bus line 35A.

vehicles

Ten motor vehicles manufactured in 1944 were available for line 22 . They had Henschel chassis with Lohner bodies and electrical equipment from Siemens-Schuckertwerke . The company numbers were 390 to 399. After they left Vienna, all ten cars that were no longer needed were sold to the Kapfenberg trolleybus in Styria . There they were removed from the stock between 1967 and 1970, although four of them only served as spare parts donors from the start. They were then sold to a construction company that used them as a construction trailer . In 1990 a motor vehicle and two trailers from the Transport Museum Remise were saved from scrapping, and permanent museum preservation is planned.

From December 1949, trailers were also used as required ; these were in service behind ordinary buses until 1961. They had already been used flexibly before and were used on bus route 20, among other things.

Chassis number Construction year License plate from June 22, 1944 License plate from August 22, 1947 signing off comment
22,488 1944 161,301 W 76.396 12/12/1958 Reconstruction after bomb damage (1949)
22,489 1944 161,302 07/16/1944 Bomb damage
22,490 1944 161,303 W 76.390 11/27/1958
22,491 1944 161,304 W 76.391 12/12/1958
22,497 1946 W 76.392 12/12/1958
22,503 1946 W 76.393 12/12/1958
22,496 1946 W 76.394 12/12/1958
22,498 1946 W 76.395 11/27/1958
22,499 1949 W 76.397 11/27/1958
22,500 1949 W 76.398 12/12/1958
22,495 1949 W 76.399 11/27/1958

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From day to day. (...) The trolleybus line to Salmannsdorf opens . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna October 10, 1946, p. 3 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized). ;
    Vienna Chronicle. (...) The first trolleybus line in Vienna. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 236/1946 (CCXXXIX. Volume), October 10, 1946, p. 4, column 2. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  2. ↑ Matthias Pölzler: Heiligenstadt - Klosterneuburg . In: www.8ung.at , 2005, accessed on May 28, 2017.
  3. ↑ Matthias Pölzler: Währingergürtel - Salmannsdorf . In: www.8ung.at , 2005, accessed on May 28, 2017.