Siding

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Schleppbahn is a term taken from the mining industry for a freight railway on which traffic is handled analogously to the tow trains for coal and ore extraction on mine railways . Towing tracks are used to transport bulk goods. The tow trains traverse the path from their starting point to the end point without any change in their composition, i.e. without requiring any significant shifting movements .

In Austria and the Czech Republic, a private siding or an industrial trunk line is also referred to as a siding or siding (Czech: vlečka) and a train that runs on these tracks is a towing train.

Examples

Austria

Graz

In the Styrian capital Graz , Andritz district, there is a Schleppbahngasse , where the towing track still goes west from the Andritz machine factory , Statteggerstraße / Andritzer Reichsstraße and in a left curve southwest over the Weinzöttl road bridge over the Mur into the Gösting district and at Weidweg Südbahn leads. The former Kranz paper mill was also connected. A small steam locomotive stands as a landmark in front of the Shopping Nord shopping center.

Another siding branches off west of the Mur in the Lagergasse / Viehmarktgasse area south of the Ostbahn , runs through a scrapyard next to the Mur, past the slaughterhouse, where until 2014 there was still a two-story ramp for unloading cattle and to the Puchstrasse district heating power station.

Inside the GKB (Graz-Köflach-Bahn) curve southwest of the main train station, a track branches off to Siemens Verkehrstechnik , formerly Simmering-Graz-Pauker (SGP), where bogies for rail vehicles are developed. About 1 km further south, a track branches off from the southern runway to the Marienhütte steel smelter. A track curve north of the Ostbahnhof was only removed in 2015 with the construction of the Styria Media Center , Gadollaplatz 1, on Conrad-von-Hötzendorfstrasse.

Linz

In the provincial capital of Upper Austria, Linz, there is an extensive network in the industrially used east of the city, on the right of the Danube. The place of a turntable has been preserved in the tobacco factory . A track that led from the northeast to the Franck-Kathreiner-Kaffeefabrik (today Nestlé ) was disbanded as a railway line around 2000, without being used as a route for another means of transport, such as cycling.

Fürstenfeld

In Fürstenfeld around 2010, the approximately 500 m long railway track was removed from the train station to the former tobacco factory. It only ran as far as the part of the company premises with the camps southeast of Feistritzgasse. A braced steel bridge with rails only for very light, in-house transport trolleys, leads over Feistritzgasse, which is about 20 m lower, to the production facilities 250 m further to the north-west near the headquarters building.

Vienna-Liesing

The Liesing towing railway consisted of two branches, about 10 km long, which were operated in different track positions from 1860 to 2003 for over 140 years.

literature

  • Freiherr von Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System . Volume 8. Berlin, Vienna 1917, pp. 348-349.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl A. Kubinzky : The streets of Graz. Schleppbahngasse. Kronenzeitung, Steirerkrone, April 10, 2016, p. 21.