Tauferer Bahn

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Bruneck – Sand in Taufers
Route of the Tauferer Bahn
Route length: 15.4 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : 800 V  =
Maximum slope : 18  ‰
Minimum radius : 150 m
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Pustertalbahn from Fortezza / Franzensfeste
Station, station
 0.000 Bruneck State Railways 825  m slm
   
 0.396 Rienz
   
 Pustertalbahn to San Candido / Innichen
   
 0.979 Bruneck local railway
   
 2.625 Sankt Georgen near Bruneck 826  m slm
   
 5.095 Gais 829  m slm
   
 6.547 Substation
   
 8.717 Uttenheim
   
 9,068 Ahr
   
 9.231 Uttenheim 838  m slm
   
 12,543 Mills 846  m slm
   
 13.403 Kematen Winkl 848  m slm
   
 15.240 Sand in Taufers 860  m slm

The Tauferer Bahn was a 15.4 kilometer long standard gauge local railway in South Tyrol . She led from on the Pustertal railway located Brunico Train to Taufers .

View towards Sand in Taufers (around 1900)

Route

Immediately after leaving the Bruneck train station in the Pustertal, the railway line followed the course of the Ahr into the Tauferer Tal to Sand in Taufers . There were intermediate stops in Sankt Georgen near Bruneck , Gais , Uttenheim , Mühlen in Taufers and Kematen .

Thanks to the ideal conditions for railway construction, complex engineering structures could be dispensed with. Only two bridges had to be built especially for the Tauferer Bahn: in Uttenheim over the Ahr and in Mühlen over the Mühlwalder Bach .

history

The railway was built to connect the capital Sand in Taufers to the European railway network. The project planning was carried out by the well-known Tyrolean railway planner Josef Riehl and Josef Beikircher (one of the concessionaires). Around 300 workers were employed in the construction from July 1907. The 15.4 km long railway line, which was licensed on April 29, 1908, was opened on July 20, 1908. One day later, official operations began.

In the opening month, approval of preparatory work for the extension of the railway from Sand to Steinhaus was applied for.

business

Summer timetable from 1922

The railway was operated electrically with 800 V direct current , making it one of the oldest electrically operated railway lines in Old Austria. The Ahr's hydropower in the valley from the Mühlbach near Gais power station was used for operation.

By the end of the First World War , the management of the kk priv. Südbahn-Gesellschaft was transferred, which also operated the Pustertalbahn. After that, the Italian State Railways took over management of the company until it was closed .

The rolling stock of the Tauferer Bahn consisted of two two-axle railcars, each with two traction motors of 48 kW output and two two-axle trailer cars. The railcars and sidecars were built by the Grazer Waggonfabrik .

Because the single-track line had been built without evading, train crossings on the line were not possible. The travel time was around 50 minutes for each direction. Six pairs of trains were run daily.

Shutdown

Due to the emerging automobile traffic, operations were discontinued at the end of January 31, 1957. The transport of passengers was taken over by buses, which still operate today.

Present and Future

The route was partially converted into a cycle path. Only a few evidence of the former rail traffic are still preserved today. In 2014 Heiner Monheim presented a feasibility study for reactivating the Tauferer Bahn.

literature

  • Albert Ditterich (Ed.): The local railways in Tyrol. A guide through the Localbahnmuseum Innsbruck . Self-published by Tiroler Museumsbahnen, Innsbruck 1991 ( permalink.obvsg.at ).
  • Werner Duschk, Walter Pramstaller, among others: Local and trams in old Tyrol . Self-published by Tiroler Museumsbahnen, Innsbruck 2008.
  • Data, facts and background information on current affairs . In: Pustertaler Zeitung . Pustertaler Medien GmbH, Bruneck December 5, 2003 ( permalink.obvsg.at ).
  • Hartmann Hinterhuber, Hans H. Hinterhuber: Josef Beikircher 1850–1925. Relation to the beginnings of the Pustertal loden factory and the planning of the Tauferer Bahn . In: The Sciliar . No. 8 . Publishing house Athesia, Bozen 2008, p. 30-65 ( permalink.obvsg.at ).
  • Walter Kreutz: The Bruneck – Sand i. Taufers . In: Railway . No. 12 , 1958, ISSN  0013-2756 , pp. 197–198 (part of the series of electric local and trams of Austrian origin in South Tyrol ).

Web links

Commons : Tauferer Bahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b RGBl. 1908/89. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , year 1908, pp. 337–342. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rgb.
  2. ↑ The grand opening of the Taufer Valley Railway. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 165/1908, July 21, 1908, p. 5, center right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn;
    The grand opening of the Taufer Valley Railway. (...) The banquet. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 166/1908, July 22, 1908, p. 6 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn.
  3. ↑ From town and country. From the Bruneck – Sand local train. In:  Innsbrucker Nachrichten , No. 168/1908, July 24, 1908, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / ibn.
  4. ↑ Hans Berger: "The Tauferer Bahnl project must be carefully considered". salto.bz , March 27, 2014, accessed May 12, 2014 .

Coordinates: 46 ° 55 ′ 8 ″  N , 11 ° 57 ′ 12 ″  E