Traisen – Kernhof railway line

Traisen Valley Railway (Traisen – Kernhof)
Route number (ÖBB) :	151 01
Course book route (ÖBB) :	113
Route length:	34 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Route class :	C3
Maximum slope :	14  ‰
Minimum radius :	157 m
Top speed:	60 km / h
Legend Leobersdorfer Bahn from St. Pölten 0.00 Traisen (since 1877) 345.8  m above sea level A. Leobersdorfer Bahn to Leobersdorf 0.7 Gölsen Bridge (33.30 m) 2.126 Voestalpine ( Awanst ) 2.197 Traisen Market (since 1878) 353.3  m above sea level A. 3.203 Neuman ( Awanst ) 4,978 Marktl (since 1878) 368  m above sea level A. 6.502 Lilienfeld (since 1878) 375.7  m above sea level A. 7.793 Lilienfeld Hospital (since 1887) 380.3  m above sea level A. 8,618 Schrambach (since 1878) 383.5  m above sea level A. 10.0 Tavern (1893-1932) 392.9  m above sea level A. former route from Türnitz 12,199 Open field (since 1893, PV until 2010) 405.5  m above sea level A. 12.5 Bridge over the Unrecht-Traisen (23.20 m) 17,156 Inner Fahrafeld (since 1893, PV until 2010) 426.5  m above sea level A. 17.414 Brunner-Stern sawmill ( Awanst ) 18,280 Isoplus district heating technology ( Awanst ) 18.298 Furthof (since 1893, PV until 2010) 460.4  m above sea level A. 19.977 Hohenberg (since 1893, PV until 2010) 474.6  m above sea level A. 22,311 In der Bruck (1893-2010) 498.9  m above sea level A. 25.824 Mitterbach Office (since 1893, PV until 2010) 540.6  m above sea level A. 27.545 St. Aegyd Eisenwerk (since 1889, PV until 2010) 28,491 St. Aegyd am Neuwalde  (since 1893, PV until 2010) 570.9  m above sea level A. 29,500 Markt St. Aegyd am Neuwalde  (since 1893, PV until 2010) 589.5  m above sea level A. 34,300 Kernhof (1893–1988) 688.8  m above sea level A. ------- Traisental railway connection ... limited public transport (special trips)

The Traisen – Kernhof railway line , the Traisentalbahn , is a branch line in Lower Austria . The approximately 34 km long side line of the Leobersdorfer Bahn opens up the Traisental . The first section is in operation by ÖBB, the second section is now operated by the municipalities themselves after the cessation of regular passenger traffic and final closure plans in the 2000s ( Traisen-Gölsental Regionalmanagement  GmbH, the railway connecting railway called Traisental ). The Hohenberg and St. Aegyd train stations are under monument protection.

history

Traisentalbahn as a branch line of the Leobersdorfer Bahn

Scheibmühl junction (around 1905)

St. Aegyd am Neuwalde train station (1906), seen in the direction of Kernhof , left: the boiler house

After the completion of the Westbahn there were several projects to establish a connection with the Südbahn . Finally, the idea of the watershed between prevailed Gölsen and Triesting in barely 600 meters above sea level with a route of St. Poelten - Leobersdorf to overcome.

The law of May 16, 1874 not only laid the foundation for the construction of the Leobersdorf – St. Pölten , but also provision for a wing runway from Scheibmühl to Schrambach , possibly outdoors . With Concessionsurkunde from November 3, 1874 the concessionaires was Victor Graf Wimpffen "in union with" Adolph Horst , Leopold Hutter Strasser , Alexander Curti and August Köstlin awarded the right to build and operate the above routes, one for the branch line status Secundärbahn set as long as "the state administration did not order any technical or structural upgrading."

On October 19, 1876, Leobersdorf-St. Pölten Railway Company under the company K. k. priv. Niederösterreichische Südwestbahn in the presence of 17 shareholders who "represented more than nine tenths of the share capital".

Despite multiple state support, the corporation k. k. priv. Niederösterreichische Südwestbahnen , which had started the railway construction, faced unsolvable financing problems, so that the state provided the remaining financing and finally in 1878 the entire railway system under the name k. k. Lower Austrian State Railways took over.

This 8.5 km long line was opened on June 1, 1878 (on which "a maximum speed of 12 kilometers per hour" was in effect until July 5 of the same year).

Ten years later, the further planning was substantiated in the law of June 30, 1888, the one "partly as an adhesion , partly as a rack and pinion railway to be established from the Schrambach station [...] via Freiland, St. Egyd , Terz and Mürzsteg to Neuberg with a Branch from Terz via Mariazell to Gußwerk , possibly to Wegscheid ”.

Further cost estimates made in the context of the legally stipulated project planning suggested to the government "for the time being only to carry out the valley route from Schrambach via Freiland and St. Egyd to Kernhof".

The construction of the “standard gauge secondary railway from Schrambach to Kernhof” was based on the law of June 1, 1890; the 25.6 km long line was opened on June 2, 1893.

Course and operation after the takeover by the municipalities

The route begins at the Traisen train station , follows the Traisen upstream and, after the Traisen Markt and Marktl stops, reaches the Lilienfeld train station after having passed the Lilienfeld Abbey shortly before . This is followed by the Lilienfeld Hospital and Schrambach stops . The Traisentalbahn to Schrambach is to be electrified by 2024/2025 .

Then there were the abandoned Tavern stop and Freiland station , from which the line to Türnitz, which was closed in 2001, branches off.

Now the route of the injustice traisen follows . The next stops were Innerfahrafeld and Furthof . This was followed by Hohenberg station . The stops In der Bruck , Amt Mitterbach and St. Aegyd Eisenwerk were in front of the St. Aegyd am Neuwalde train station . Freight traffic on this route ends here. The end of the line (until December 12, 2010) is the Markt St. Aegyd am Neuwalde stop just behind this station . Kernhof station has not been reached since May 29, 1988. The section Schrambach - St. Aegyd at Neuwalde Markt was closed on December 12, 2010 for passenger traffic; Freight traffic between Freiland and St. Aegyd, combined with an increase in freight costs of 150 euros / wagon, was originally maintained until mid-2011, after political urgency until the timetable change in December 2011.

Since April 1, 2012, the 17 km long route between Freiland and St. Aegyd has been a connecting line owned by Traisen-Gölsental Regionalentwicklungs GmbH, which has made it available to ÖBB Rail Cargo  (RCA). The municipalities invested 4.5 million euros, 3.3 million euros funded by the state, a good 800,000 euros from the rail infrastructure service  company mbH (Schig) from the Austrian climate and energy fund of the Ministry of Life. Rail Cargo Austria will continue to provide the train material in regular freight transport and work out the timetables. In addition, special trips are being carried out again in passenger traffic.

On February 1, 2013, the Traisen-Gölsental Regionalmanagement GmbH tendered a framework agreement for the route management of the Traisental connecting railway . Since 2013/14, a cooperation with Weichenwerk Wörth GmbH (St. Pölten, a cooperation between voestalpine Weichensysteme and ÖBB Infrastruktur) has been able to ensure winter operations again.

meaning

The line was one of the first to be nationalized and heralded the great state railway era in Austria, even before the Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Bahn (Western Railway) became state property.

With the increasing competition from road traffic, the route lost more and more importance in the post-war period .

The investments and modernizations that were not carried out (automatic barrier systems, remote-controlled switches, renewal of the superstructure) led to a slow and labor-intensive handling of traffic that could no longer be carried out at a cost-covering level. The workers' and schoolchildren's trains, which were well occupied in the 1960s and 1970s, lost more and more of their importance. The consequence was the cessation of traffic to Kernhof in 1988.

Due to the importance for the business location, the Traisental communities ( small region Traisen-Gölsental ) took over the operation of the rear valley themselves, and quite successfully. After VOEST abandoned its location at the St. Aegyd ironworks in the 1990s, today it is, in addition to the Traisen and PREFA foundries in Lilienfeld, that are still served by ÖBB, in particular the automotive supplier Roth-Technik Austria  (RTA) and the Teufelberger ropery in St. Aegyd as well as isoplus Fernwärmetechnik (former Furthof file factory until 1982), for which the railway is of central importance. The special trips for people on request also promote tourism in the Talung.

Driving resources

The Niederösterreichische Südwestbahnen originally procured six series A locomotives , seven series B engines , a 1C tank locomotive and six series C tank locomotives with the numbers 2-7. All of these machines were taken over by the kkStB . The kkStB itself had three locomotives (97.59-61) built for the NÖSWB in 1893 in connection with the opening of the branch line to Kernhof.

As a special feature, a two-way Unimog (road and rail-compatible) is now in operation on the community's own connecting railway, which Weichenwerk Wörth GmbH provides in PPP cooperation . It is equipped with a crane so that maintenance work can be carried out from both the road and the railway line, and is also used for winter service.

gallery

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  Terminal building in Traisen train station

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  Terminal building in Schrambach station

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  Freight train in Freiland station, 1992

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  Furthof terminal building

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  Terminal building in Hohenberg train station

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  From 1988 to 2010 the Markt St. Aegyd stop at Neuwalde was the terminus of the Traisentalbahn.

literature

• Hans Sternhart, Friedrich Slezak, Josef O. Slezak: Lower Austrian Southwest Railways. Leobersdorf, Hainfeld, St. Pölten, Traisen, Kernhof / Türnitz, Wittmannsdorf, Piesting, Gutenstein, Pöchlarn, Scheibbs, Kienberg-Gaming . (= International Archive for Locomotive History. Volume 25). Slezak publishing house, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-900134-35-9 .
• Peter Wegenstein, Heinz Albrecht: Railways between the southern and western lines. The Leobersdorf - St. Pölten, Traisen - Kernhof and Freiland - Türnitz routes . (= Track in the picture. Volume 75). Pospischil publishing house, Vienna 1990, DNB 942264517 .
• Wolfdieter Hufnagl: The Lower Austrian State Railways . transpress Verlag, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-613-71214-8 .

Web links

Commons : Leobersdorfer Bahn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} connecting railway Traisental. traisen-goelsental.at (accessed April 25, 2014.)
2. ↑ RGBl. 1874/64. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1874, pp. 146–149. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ RGBl. 1875/10. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1875, pp. 17–28. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Lower Austrian Southwest Railway. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 4368/1876, October 22, 1876, p. 9, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ↑ RGBl. 1875/11. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1875, pp. 28–31. (Online at ANNO ). .
6. ↑ RGBl. 1876/68. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1876, p. 137 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
7. ↑ RGBl. 1876/69. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1876, pp. 137–143. (Online at ANNO ). .
8. ↑ ^{a b} RGBl. 1878/104. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1878, p. 381. (Online at ANNO ). .
9. ↑ ^{a b} RGBl. 1878/88. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1878, p. 324 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
10. ^ History of the railways of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Volume: 1.2. Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1898, p. 193.
11. ↑ RGBl. 1888/109. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe , year 1888, p. 376 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
12. ↑ ^{a b} History of the Railways of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Volume: 1.2. Karl Prochaska, Vienna 1898, p. 394.
13. ↑ RGBl. 1890/105. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt , year 1890, p. 252 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
14. ↑ Local transport strengthen multi-million euro package for rail expansion. noen.at, June 23, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Astrid Krizanic-Fallmann: Anger over the award of the ÖBB. In: noen.at. December 7, 2010, accessed February 16, 2013.
16. ↑ Economy. Traisentalbahn: Freight traffic extended. (...) In: noe.orf.at. July 1, 2011, accessed February 16, 2013.
17. ↑ ^{a b c} Freight traffic on the Traisentalbahn St. Aegyd to Freiland remains - municipalities take over the railway with the help of the state of Lower Austria. In: magzin.at, December 22, 2011.
18. ↑ ^{a b} Roland Beck: Opening of the connecting railway Freiland St. Aegyd / Nw. ( Memento from July 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Traisen-Gölsental Regionalmanagement GmbH, March 15, 2012.
19. ↑ Manuela Pleyer: Call for tenders framework agreement for the route management of the Traisental connection line ( Memento from March 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) In: traisen-goelsental.at → News from the connection line , February 1, 2013, accessed on February 16, 2013.
20. ↑ ^{a b} Manuela Pleyer: Cooperation between Weichenwerk WörthGmbH and the Traisen-Gölsental region ensures operation on the Traisental connecting railway in winter. In: traisen-goelsental.at → News from the connecting railway , October 18, 2013, accessed on April 26, 2015.
21. ↑ The train arrives at the factory - connecting railways. Wolfgang Poz even in Die Presse online, November 18, 2014.
22. ^ Foundry Traisen - voestalpine. voestalpine.com (accessed April 25, 2015).
23. ↑ Company. ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 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. rothtechnik.eu (accessed April 21, 2015).
24. ↑ St. Aegyd (AT). ( Memento from March 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) teufelberger.com → About us → Locations (accessed April 21, 2015).
25. ↑ Locations: Austria. isoplus.at (accessed April 25, 2015).

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Today: Traisen ; Scheibmühl in use until the mid-twenties. - Sternhart, Slezak: Lower Austrian Southwest Railways. P. 12 and 35.
2. ↑ As already with RGBl. 1888/109. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe , year 1888, p. 376 f. (Online at ANNO ). Basically intended, ten years later, in 1898, the (unrealized) project, branching off the state railway line Scheibmühl – Kernhof, was to build a standard-gauge, steam or electricity-powered adhesion or rack and pinion railway to Mariazell and on to Gußwerk. - See: Executed and configured plants. Austria-Hungary. a) Austria. (...) Mariazell. Electric train. In: Johann Sahulka (Red.): Journal for electrical engineering . Volume 16.1898, issue 47/1898, November 20, 1898, ISSN  1013-5111 . Lehmann & Wentzel ( Commission ), Vienna 1897, p. 562. - Text online .
3. ↑ Already in the spring of 1968 the decision was made to close the branch lines Traisen – Kernhof and Freiland – Türnitz, against which the ÖGB protested in a resolution . - See: ÖGB protest against closure of branch lines . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna April 26, 1968, p. 4 , bottom center ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).