Styrian Eastern Railway

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Styrian Eastern Railway
(Szentgotthárd – Fehring – Graz)
Route of the Styrian Eastern Railway
Route number : 414 01
Course book route (ÖBB) : 530
Route length: 80.235 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class : D4
Power system : Graz Hbf -Graz Stadion Liebenau
15 kV 16 ⅔ Hz  ~
Maximum slope : 16.2 
Minimum radius : 600 m
Top speed: 120 km / h
Route - straight ahead
Hungarian Western Railway
Stop, stop
169.146 Szentgotthárd
border
170.454 State border to Jennersdorf Hungary / Austria
Stop, stop
171.860 Mogersdorf 226  m above sea level A.
   
175.0 Weichselbaum on the Raab abandoned 235  m above sea level A.
Station, station
178.780 Jennersdorf 242  m above sea level A.
   
Federal state border Burgenland / Styria
Stop, stop
184,946 Hohenbrugg an der Raab
   
Thermal bath from Friedberg
Station, station
188.557 Fehring 261  m above sea level A.
Stop, stop
193,670 Lödersdorf 271  m above sea level A.
   
Landesbahn Feldbach – Bad Gleichenberg
Station, station
198.091 Feldbach 281  m above sea level A.
Stop, stop
200.827 Gniebing 290  m above sea level A.
   
201.084 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) Lugitsch
   
202.178 Paurach † June 1, 1886
Stop, stop
204.431 pipe 298  m above sea level A.
Station, station
208.249 Studenzen - Fladnitz 309  m above sea level A.
   
212.281 Kroisbach-Zöbing † December 11, 2010 320  m above sea level A.
Station, station
213,650 Takern-Sankt Margarethen
   
215.219 Takern-Sankt Margarethen 337  m above sea level A.
   
218,043 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) JERICH-Müllex
   
218.276 Connecting railway ( Awanst )
   
218,928 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) JERICH International
   
219,062 Connecting railway ( Awanst ) Bramac
Road bridge
A2 south motorway
Station, station
221.038 Gleisdorf 350  m above sea level A.
   
Weizer Bahn (from Weiz)
   
Raab
Station, station
225.429 Laßnitzthal 390  m above sea level A.
Station, station
231.664 Laßnitzhöhe 476  m above sea level A.
tunnel
Laßnitz tunnel (531.16 m)
Station without passenger traffic
237,400 Autal † September 2010, now an alternative station 410  m above sea level A.
Stop, stop
240.290 Hard with Graz since September 2010
Stop, stop
241,922 Raaba
   
Magna Steyr plant siding
Station without passenger traffic
242,442 Graz Messendorf no stop for passenger trains 344  m above sea level A.
   
243,573 Connection railway ( Awanst ) Hödlmayr Logistics
   
Connecting railway warehouse Kastner & Öhler
   
Highway slip road Graz Ost
Stop, stop
Graz Liebenau-Murpark
Route - straight ahead
(since Dec. 15, 2013)
Stop, stop
245,500 Graz Stadium Liebenau
Route - straight ahead
(only at sporting events)
Station, station
246,562 Graz Ostbahnhof fair 344  m above sea level A.
   
Mur
   
247,957 Connection railway ( Awanst ) Karlau
Stop, stop
249,055 Graz Don Bosco
   
Südbahn (after Spielfeld- Strasse)
Station, station
250.689 Graz Central Station 365  m above sea level A.
Route - straight ahead
Route - straight ahead
Südbahn (to Vienna )

The Steirische Ostbahn is a railway line in Austria and runs from Szentgotthárd via Jennersdorf , Fehring , Feldbach and Gleisdorf to Graz . Before the Austro-Hungarian monarchy disintegrated, it was part of the Hungarian Western Railway .

On the one hand due to the delay in the construction of the Semmering Base Tunnel and the construction of the Koralm Railway, and on the other hand due to the takeover of the Ödenburg / Sopron - Steinamanger / Szombathely - Sankt Gotthard / Szentgotthárd line by the Raaberbahn / GYSEV , this railway line is gaining importance again. The infrastructure projects in the course of the EU expansion on May 1, 2004 also contribute to the development of freight traffic. Since December 2010 there has been an S-Bahn service between Fehring and Graz, which is reinforced by REX trains.

On the Hungarian side, the RÖEE / GySEV carried out extensive expansion measures (superstructure reinforcement and electrification) in the Ödenburg / Sopron - Steinamanger / Szombathely section . After RÖEE / GySEV (previous operator: MÁV ) took over the Steinamanger / Szombathely - Körmend - Sankt Gotthard / Szentgotthárd line in December 2006, this line was also renovated and electrified from October 1, 2009 to December 2, 2010.

The Styrian Eastern Railway is operated by the Austrian Federal Railways . The trains are run as REX and S3, with all trains running between Fehring and Szentgotthard as REX or R. On working days the trains run in the busy morning, afternoon and evening hours at around 30-minute intervals, at all other operating times at 1-hour intervals. The first train leaves Fehring every day at 4:09 a.m. and arrives at Graz Hbf at 5:19 a.m. Every day, the last train leaves Graz Hbf at 00:08 a.m. and arrives at Fehring at 01:21 a.m. On Sundays and public holidays there are no trains from Graz Hbf at 9:08 p.m. and at 11:08 p.m. with arrival in Fehring at 10:27 p.m. and 12:21 a.m. These trains only run Monday to Saturday (working day).

The Styrian State Railways are also authorized to drive the route up to the Austrian border . On working days (except Saturday), these run five direct trains as the S31 from Weiz to Graz Hbf, four direct trains from Graz Hbf to Weiz and a regional train from Graz Hbf to Gleisdorf, which use the Styrian Ostbahn in the section between Gleisdorf-Graz. The StLB use articulated diesel multiple units (5062, Stadler-GTW 2/6) or diesel-hydraulic multiple units (5047) on the Weiz – Gleisdorf – Graz route.

Three railway lines branch off from the Styrian Eastern Railway:

history

Fehring station around 1900

In the mid-1850s, a consortium was founded in Graz to set up and build the then so-called Locomotiv Railway , today's Styrian Eastern Railway, between Raab / Győr and Graz .

Three routes were considered for the Austrian part:

After the decision was initially made in favor of option 2, farmers and landowners resisted, especially in the Nestelbach area. With the argument that "the railway would set fire to their fields" they achieved a reallocation to variant 3.

The line belonged to the Hungarian Western Railway from Győr to Graz. On September 1, 1872, the route between Sankt Gotthard / Szentgotthárd and the state border next to Jennersdorf / Gyanafalva was opened. On May 1, 1873, the entire line from Jennersdorf to Graz was opened.

In August 1883 , the Imperial and Royal Ministry of Commerce granted Johann Berghofer, the owner of a mill and real estate in Fehring, along with his comrades, the requested permission to carry out preliminary technical work for a narrow-gauge Vicinal railway from Fehring via Gleichenberg to Radkersburg . This project, which was applied for at the Ministry of Commerce about a year before the concession to build and operate the locomotive railway from Fehring to Fürstenfeld was granted and had no connection with it, was subsequently not implemented.

Hungarian part

On October 1, 1871 the Raab / Győr – Szombathely line was opened. On September 1, 1872, the Steinamanger / Szombathely line - state border next to Jennersdorf / Gyanafalva was opened (the state border at that time was between the railway stations Sankt Gotthard / Szentgotthárd and Jennersdorf / Gyanafalva, where today the border between Burgenland and Styria lies). See also Hungarian Western Railway

Traction vehicles

Vehicle material

Expansion plans

Alternative stations

An S-Bahn system for the greater Graz area has been under construction and expansion since 2007 and is in operation as planned. The Styrian Eastern Railway could not be included for the time being due to insufficient infrastructure. With the construction of three alternative stations in Autal, Laßnitzthal and Takern by the end of 2010, the prerequisites for S-Bahn operations were created. In Autal, the turnout was created in the area of ​​the abandoned old bus stop. The stop was rebuilt a few kilometers in Hart bei Graz. The new Takern-St. Margarethen with a siding was set up between the former Takern station and the former Kroisbach-Zöbing stop, which replaces these two stations. In Laßnitzthal, the alternative station and station were built in the area of ​​the old bus stop. After completing the extensive track construction work and commissioning the new central platform, the old station building was demolished in early 2011.

High performance track

The route between Graz and Gleisdorf is to be upgraded to a high-performance railway. Information offices were set up in Graz and Gleisdorf for the route planning of this high-performance line between Raaba and Gleisdorf. Through a continuous two-track route, complete electrification and relocation of the route to the south (between Raaba and Lassnitzthal) with a 6 km long base tunnel in the Lassnitzhöhe area, travel speeds of up to 160 km / h and thus a reduction in travel time between Graz and Gleisdorf from 31 to 22 minutes. After the decision on the definitive course of the future route, the environmental impact assessment (EIA) was initiated. Between 2010 and 2015, the environmental impact assessment and the railway approval procedure (building permit) should be completed. By backing up the project in the general transport plan and the resulting postponement of the start of construction, the commissioning of the NBS at the same time as the Koralmbahn in 2023 is no longer possible. Furthermore, consideration was given to keeping the existing route over the Laßnitzhöhe and using it as part of a city railway from Graz via Gleisdorf to Weiz.

Connection with the Koralmbahn

Between Raaba and Feldkirchen bei Graz, a single-track connection to the Koralm Railway is planned along the southern motorway. This is to be used as a freight train bypass from Graz and as a connection between the Styrian Eastern Railway and the Graz Süd terminal on the Baltic-Adriatic axis (TEN corridor).

General transport plan

In the general traffic plan, the Austrian Federal Government listed the Styrian Eastern Railway on February 25, 2002 in package 2 under the items "Electrification of the Styrian Eastern Railway", "Selective double-track expansion Gleisdorf - Szentgotthard" and "Construction of three new operational switches on the Styrian Eastern Railway".

Image gallery

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Lothar Brill: Laßnitz tunnel: 531.16 meters . In: eisenbahntunnel.at , March 11, 2017, accessed on March 11, 2017.
  2. Marktgemeinde Laßnitzhöhe (Hrsg.): Marktgemeinde Laßnitzhöhe. Local history. 50 years of the community - 100 years of the sanatorium - 50 years of the sports club . Brockamp-Verlag, Laßnitzhöhe 2001.
  3. Trade, Industry, Transport and Agriculture. Pre-concession. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 223/1883, September 28, 1883, p. 12, bottom center. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  4. RGBl 1884/133. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrath , year 1884, pp. 403–408. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rgb.
  5. ^ Local residents information from ÖBB about the expansion of the Styrian Eastern Railway

Web links

Commons : Steirische Ostbahn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files