Club 760

Owner's address on locomotive 699.01

The Club 760 - Verein der Freunde der Murtalbahn , Club 760 for short, is an association founded in 1969 by railway enthusiasts at the Murtalbahn in Salzburg with the aim of maintaining the tradition of narrow-gauge railways in Bosnian gauge (760 mm). In addition to vehicles from various Austrian and old Austrian narrow-gauge railroads, locomotives in particular from the formerly extensive Yugoslav narrow-gauge networks are preserved for posterity.

As of 2012, the association's vehicle collection now includes 19 narrow-gauge locomotives and 11 cars. The association has been running museum transport on the Taurachbahn in Salzburg's Lungau since 1988 . The association's vehicle hall in Frojach-Katsch is open to visitors on various dates in summer.

Taurachbahn train with 298.56 and 699.01 in Mariapfarr station

Public relations for the Murtalbahn

Club 760 was founded with the aim of contributing to the maintenance of the Murtalbahn in full length, including through public relations work for the route and the steam train. The first passenger cars were procured and refurbished in order to make them available to the Murtalbahn as reinforcement cars for the now successful tourist trains.

Taurach Railway

history

The Taurachbahn crosses the B95 state road at Mariapfarr station

The Taurachbahn was on the top in the province of Salzburg belonging Lungau lying section of the Murtalbahn of Tamsweg to Mauterndorf , which was set in 1981 after a severe damage to a bridge for economic reasons. The Club 760 association , which had set itself the goal of maintaining the full length of the Murtalbahn, succeeded in leasing the route from April 1, 1982, and repairing it from 1983 to 1987 through the voluntary work of its members that in 1988 the Taurachbahn GmbH, which he founded , was granted permission for "tourist railroad passenger transport". The Taurachbahn was opened on July 9th, 1988 and since then has been regularly used by museum trains on weekends in the summer months. Although the line still belongs to the Styrian State Railways , the Taurachbahn is an independent operation with its own ministerial operating license.

route

St. Andrä - Mauterndorf
Route length:	10.6 km
Gauge :	760 mm ( Bosnian gauge )
Legend 0.0 Locking shoe / connection to the Murtalbahn Lessachbach 0.3 Wölting 1036  m above sea level A. 0.800 St. Andrä -Wölting Turning point “before” turning trains former Funcke connection State Road 222 Göriachbach 1.000 Start of re-routing from 1984/85 1.100 St. Andrä - Göriach 1.200 St. Andrä-Andlwirt 3.000 End of realignment from 1984/85 3.000 Lintsching 3.100 Lignitzbach 5.300 Taurach 5.600 Mariapfarr Groebendorf 8.600 Steindorf-Fanningberg 10.6 Mauterndorf 1116  m above sea level A.

StLB 6 with a photo freight train

Like the Murtalbahn, the Taurachbahn, as its historic upper end, is a single-track, narrow - gauge railway with a track width of 760 mm.

The route begins at Mauterndorf train station and runs along the southern Taurach via the Gröbendorf stop to Mariapfarr train station . From there the route continues to the Lintsching stop and the St. Andrä -Andlwirt stop, which is the end of the passenger traffic. However, the Taurachbahn also includes a further section up to route km 65,650 of the Murtalbahn. In this section there is a junction which is used to topple the trains using a slight slope . This section is also used for the mutual exchange of vehicles.

The Tamsweg station is not used in scheduled tourist traffic because of the fees charged by the Styrian State Railways; however, special trains run from Mauterndorf via Tamsweg to the Murtalbahn.

Investments

There are train stations with several tracks in Mariapfarr and in Mauterndorf, where there is also a boiler house with a workshop and a wagon hall, which went into operation in 1999 and was built with the help of EU funding.

After Mariapfarr the Taurach, at Lintsching the Lignitzbach, to St. Andrä the Göriachbach and the former state road and in Wölting the Lessachbach are crossed with bridges.

The crossings of the railway with the main road at Mariapfarr station and with the state road at the Lintsching stop are secured by rail barriers that have to be closed and reopened manually by the train staff. There are also many level crossings with dirt roads and municipal roads, which are secured by speed restrictions , St. Andrew's crosses and / or stop signs .

Frojach Railway Museum

The Frojach Railway Museum, in front of it the Mariazell Railway's mail car

In 1977, a plot of land in Frojach was leased to create a sheltered place to park the growing vehicle collection . In the spring of the following year, the construction of the steel structure with three tracks, each 29 m long, began. The museum's track system is connected to the Murtalbahn and consists of 380 m of track and three switches.

With the inauguration of the hall on September 24, 1978, the vehicles previously parked outdoors in Murau could be relocated to their new domicile. In the first years of operation of the Taurachbahn up to the completion of the storage hall in Mauterndorf, the vehicles used there overwintered in Frojach. In 2012, five steam locomotives and a mail car were housed there.

Support of other associations and institutions

The Club 760 supports other museum railways by providing vehicle material. The club's vehicles are used on the “Flascherlzug” from Preding-Wieselsdorf to Stainz , in the Salzkammergut Local Railway Museum in Mondsee , on the Zillertal Railway and on the Třemešná ve Slezsku – Osoblaha narrow-gauge railway . Club 760 vehicles were also in use on the Waldviertel narrow-gauge railways , the Mariazellerbahn and the Thörlerbahn , which has now been closed . Vehicles from the club were also represented at the exhibition on the subject of “100 years of narrow-gauge railways in Austria” in Obergrafendorf in 1989 and the Styrian state exhibition in Knittelfeld in 1999.

Vehicle inventory

Traction vehicles

Taurach Railway
Company number	photo	Construction year	Acquisition	origin	Use / location	comment
298.56 "Mariapfarr"		1900	1982	NÖLB U 6, ÖBB 298.56	Mauterndorf	in action
699.01 "Lungau"		1944	1973	Heeresfeldbahn HF160D, ÖBB 699.01	Mauterndorf	in action
SKGLB 12		1906	2003	SKGLB S 12, StLB, Vehicle Museum Marxzell, Railway Museum Mondsee	Mauterndorf	in action
StLB 6 "Thörl"		1893	1972	StLB 6 Thörl	Mauterndorf	in action
CFF 764-219	Tender locomotive, wheel arrangement D, funnel-shaped spark arrester	1917	1993	Caile Ferate Forestiere (CFF); Romanian forest railways	Mauterndorf	in action
SKGLB D40		1942	1986	Salzkammergut Local Railway (since 1946), StLB VL01	Mauterndorf	in action
StLB VL7		1940	2017 on loan	Nassauische Kleinbahn, StLB VL7	Mauterndorf	in action
X 101	Motor rail car		1991	ÖBB	Mauterndorf	in action
VL Braubach	Small diesel locomotive	1963	1980	Braubach lead and silver smelter	Mauterndorf	in action; Gift of the regional representation of the FRG, re-tracked
Frojach Museum
Company number	photo	Construction year	Acquisition	origin	Use / location	comment
SKGLB 11		1894	2011	SKGLB 11, StLB S 11, Stainzerbahn	Frojach	Work-up planned
Kh 111		1930	1976	Feistritztalbahn, Murtalbahn	Frojach
JŽ 97-029		1914	1979	Bosnian-Herzegovinian State Railways No. IIIc5 729, JŽ 73-019	Frojach	Loan from the Technisches Museum Wien
KL 2 "VL Vitty"	Small diesel locomotive	1950	1980	Schwarzenbergsäge , Unzmarkt	Frojach	Held in Frojach since 2009 after HU; formerly 700 mm track
SLB Pinzgauer local railway
Company number	photo	Construction year	Acquisition	origin	Use / location	comment
JŽ 73-019		1913	1982	Bosnian-Herzegovinian State Railway No. 169, JŽ 73-019	Zell am See	Awarded to the Salzburger Lokalbahnen for use on the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn .
2091.03		1936	1990	BBÖ	Krimml	Awarded to the Salzburger Lokalbahnen for use on the Pinzgauer Lokalbahn .
Others
Company number	photo	Construction year	Acquisition	origin	Use / location	comment
JŽ 83-076		1909		Jugoslovenske Železnice (JŽ)	Jenbach	operational, awarded to Zillertalbahn as ZB 4 III
JŽ 1932		1946	1989	Jugoslovenske Železnice (JŽ)	Třemešná ve Slezsku – Osoblaha narrow-gauge railway	operational, awarded to Slezské Zemské Dráhy, Krnov / Czech Republic as U 57.001

dare

Taurach Railway
Company number	Construction year	Acquisition	origin	Location	commitment
Bi 37	1906	1970	BBÖ 325, ÖBB 3625	Mauterndorf	in operation
Bi 38	1925	1970	SKGLB 563, ZB 22	Mauterndorf	in operation
Bi 39	1892	1984	ÖBB 3722, ÖBB 97201	Mauterndorf	in operation as a bar cart
C 60	1892	1974	StLB Ci 202	Mauterndorf	in operation
Bi 45	1904	1995	SGA B3 145	Mauterndorf	in operation (summer car)
Bi 46	1904	1995	SGA B3 145	Mauterndorf	in operation (summer car)
D 83	1894		StLB D 83	Mauterndorf	in operation (company car)
C / s 501	1894/2014		StLB / SKGLB	Mauterndorf	in operation, new construction on the chassis and frame of an ex-Murtalbahn freight wagon
C / s 504	1894/2014		StLB / SKGLB	Mauterndorf	in operation, new construction on the chassis and frame of an ex-Murtalbahn freight wagon
C / s 555	1894/2014		StLB / SKGLB	Mauterndorf	in operation, new construction on the chassis and frame of an ex-Murtalbahn freight wagon
C / s 559	1894/2014		StLB / SKGLB	Mauterndorf	in operation, new construction on the chassis and frame of an ex-Murtalbahn freight wagon
Ca / s 656	1928	2016	SKGLB Ca / s 656, StLB Ba 74	Mauterndorf	in operation, renovation and general inspection 2016–17
G 61	1894		StLB G 157	Mauterndorf	in operation (showroom, reinforcement car), boxcar
Frojach Museum
Company number	Construction year	Acquisition	origin	Location	commitment
F3ho 8501	1932	2000	BBÖ PwPost 831, ÖBB 6301, F3ho 8501	Frojach	Post and baggage car on the Mariazellerbahn, converted into a post car in 1966, loaned
Stainzerbahn
Company number	Construction year	Acquisition	origin	Location	commitment
Bi 31				Stainz	in operation
Bi 32				Stainz	in operation
Bi 33				Stainz	in operation
Bi 34				Stainz	in operation

The two four-axle passenger cars Bi / 5 47 and Bi / 5 48 were added to the Stainzerbahn in 2015. These cars come from the inventory of the former Heeresfeldbahn , from a series of six built between 1940 and 1943 that had been taken over by the Austrian Federal Railways and (renovated 1963/65) were used on their narrow-gauge railways. They were built by Linke-Hoffmann-Waggonbau in Germany, weigh 13.5 tons and are equipped with auxiliary heating and 24-volt lighting. At the beginning of 1997 they came to Club 760 and from 1998 they drove on the Taurach Valley Railway.

Web links

Commons : Club 760  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Club 760 website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Locomotives of Club 760 ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 11, 2012)  
2. ↑ History of the Taurachbahn on the pages of Club 760 ( Memento of the original from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 12, 2012)  
3. ^ Creation of the Frojach Museum (accessed on October 11, 2012)
4. ↑ Slezské zemské dráhy ( Memento of the original of June 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; the Czech route description contains a bilingual (German / Czech ) list of stations.  
5. ↑ Win-win situation of the Stainzer bottle train . In: Weststeirische Rundschau . No. 3, year 2015 (January 16, 2015), 88th year, ZDB -ID 2303595-X . Simadruck Aigner u. Weisi, Deutschlandsberg 2015, p. 1.