Dornbirn – Lustenau tram
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Route length: | 11.121 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | 1000 mm ( meter gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Power system : | 550 V = | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maximum slope : | 31 ‰ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minimum radius : | 30 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Dornbirn – Lustenau tram was a meter-gauge regional tram in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg . It operated between the city of Dornbirn and the market town of Lustenau , the transport company in charge was the Aktiengesellschaft Elektro Bahn Dornbirn – Lustenau , abbreviated to EBDL . The line was 11.121 kilometers long, consistently single-track and was operated electrically from the start. The driving voltage was 550 volts direct current .
history
The route led along today's Lustenauer Strasse , the remise in Dornbirn was located on the site of the post garage on the Säger Bridge, which has now also been abandoned, and the Dornbirn campus is now located on the front part of the site.
The tram, popularly known as the tram or - in reference to the operating company - the poor transport of the stupid people , was the first electric railway in Vorarlberg to open on November 30, 1902 and was put into regular service on the same day. The operation led the Siemens & Halske A.-G. It was financed by the then expanding Vorarlberg textile industry ; the concession announced on March 24, 1902, benefited the communities of Dornbirn and Lustenau as concessionaires. The route ran from the Dornbirn train station to the underpass bridge in Lustenau (near Rheinstrasse), on the Swiss side of which the Au SG train station was located.
The route was originally planned as a 24-kilometer connection between the Bregenzerwald region and eastern Switzerland: from Au in the canton of St. Gallen , via Lustenau, Dornbirn, Schwarzach , Wolfurt to Kennelbach on the Bregenzerwaldbahn . A side branch into the Gütle to the Rappenloch was also considered, but this could not be financed.
On October 26, 1919, FC Lustenau 07 , Vorarlberg's first football club, held a race against the tram: a relay of 35 runners, each running 150 to 400 meters, took 19 minutes and 45 seconds from Dornbirn to Lustenau - the tram, on the other hand was on the road ten minutes longer.
The railway company operated reasonably successfully until 1930, in addition to people, around 700 to 900 tons of goods were also transported annually. In the wake of the global economic crisis , however, the railway fell into the red. A traffic census from the summer of 1937 showed that only 23 percent of travelers between Dornbirn and Lustenau used the train, 63 percent preferred the bicycle and ten percent the car. In addition, innovations and improvements in the technical area were clearly necessary.
On October 31, 1938, rail traffic (now taken over by the Reichspost ) was discontinued and replaced the next day by nine omnibuses ( company cars ). The necessary large investments that would have had to be made for a continued existence did not seem profitable to those responsible. In addition, in keeping with the spirit of the times, people thought more of an automotive future.
Relics
In Lustenau there is still a shed building, located directly on the Rheindamm. Furthermore, one finds at a few houses, z. B. in Marktstrasse in Dornbirn, overhead line rosettes .
vehicles
All cars were two-axle and two- way; after they were taken out of service in 1938, they were sold to the Klagenfurt tram :
Art | piece | Numbers | Construction year | Manufacturer | length | Wheelbase | Remarks |
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Railcar | 5 | 1 to 5 | 1902 | Graz wagon factory | 8300 mm | 3000 mm | Originally open platforms and lantern roof, later conversion to a hooded roof and sliding doors |
sidecar | 2 | 8 and 9 | 1902 | Graz wagon factory | 8870 mm | 3000 mm | Open platform, canopy, sliding doors |
sidecar | 2 | 10 and 11 | 1902 | Graz wagon factory | Built in 1902 as baggage car 6 and 7, 1903 converted as sidecar 10 and 11 | ||
sidecar | 1 | 12 | 1922 | Main workshop | 8300 mm | 3000 mm | Execution like parts of the railcars after their conversion |
literature
- Concession of the small electric train from Dornbirn to Lustenau . In: Maximilian Zinner (Red.): Journal for electrical engineering . Volume 20.1902, issue 25/1902, June 22, 1902, ISSN 1013-5111 . Spielhagen & Schurich ( Commission ), Vienna 1902, p. 309 ff. - Text online .
- Hansgeorg Prix: Electric Railway Dornbirn – Lustenau. The EMCDDA, 1902–1938. Heyn, Klagenfurt 1988, ISBN 3-85366-560-8 .
- Wolfgang Kaiser: Trams in Austria. Tram magazine library. GeraMond-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7654-7198-4 .
- F. Hajek, Hans Lehnhart: The “Electric Railway Dornbirn – Lustenau” (EBDL) . In: Tram magazine . No. February 31 , 1979, ISSN 0340-7071 , p. 66-71 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c R. Zimmermann: The first electric train in Vorarlberg. In: Österreichische Alpenpost , issue 6/1903, (5th year), p. 135 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ (...) Dornbirn. 1. Dec. The festive opening (...). In: Vorarlberger Volksblatt , daily edition, No. 277/1902 (XXXVII. Year), December 2, 1902, p. 4, top right. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ self-reports. (...) Bregenz. Nov 29, tomorrow Sunday (...). In: Vorarlberger Volksblatt , daily edition, No. 276/1902 (XXXVII. Year), November 30, 1902, p. 3, bottom left (online at ANNO ).
- ↑ Executed and planned systems. Austria-Hungary. Austria. (...) Dornbirn. Opening of the electric train . In: Maximilian Zinner (Red.): Journal for electrical engineering . Volume 21.1903, issue 3/1903, January 18, 1903, ISSN 1013-5111 . Spielhagen & Schurich ( Commission ), Vienna 1903, p. 47. - Text online .
- ↑ RGBl. 1902/72. In: Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1902, pp. 229–232. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Table of the annual passenger and goods transport from 1903 to 1938 see in Werner Matt: Elektro Bahn Dornbirn - Lustenau in Andreas Brugger, Werner Matt, Katrin Netter (Ed.): The last years of peace and the First World War , Vorarlberger Kommunalarchive working group, Dornbirn / Egg / Schruns 2016, ISBN 978-3-901900-52-5 , p. 29.
- ↑ The end of the Dornbirn – Lustenau electric local train. In: Vorarlberger Tagblatt , No. 252/1938 (XXI. Volume), November 2, 1938, p. 8 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
Remarks
- ↑ FM Hämmerle and Herburger & Rhomberg planned a steam tram from Höchst via Lustenau, Dornbirn to Alberschwende. In 1890, permission was requested from the Ministry of Commerce to carry out the technical preparatory work (Werner Matt: Elektro Bahn Dornbirn - Lustenau in Andreas Brugger, Werner Matt, Katrin Netter (ed.): The last years of peace and the First World War , Vorarlberger Kommunalarchive working group, Dornbirn / Egg / Schruns 2016, ISBN 978-3-901900-52-5 , p. 30). There was also a project for the line that was later carried out as early as 1897, initially supported by the mayor of Dornbirn, Johann Georg Waibel (1828–1908). - See: Heavy current systems. Austria-Hungary. a) Austria. (...) Kennelbach. Electric train . In: Josef Kareis (Red.): Journal for electrical engineering . Volume 15.1897, issue 17/1897, September 1, 1897, ISSN 1013-5111 . Lehmann & Wentzel ( Commission ), Vienna 1897, p. 504. - Text online .
- ↑ The runway was designed for the following speeds: on the open road 30 km / h, in built-up areas 12 to 20 km / h. - See: The end of the Dornbirn – Lustenau electric local train. In: Vorarlberger Tagblatt , No. 253/1938 (XXI year), November 3, 1938, p. 5, center right. (Online at ANNO ). .