Local railway Lambach – Gmunden

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Lambach – Gmunden
Route number (ÖBB) : 259 01
Route length: 27.1 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system : Lambach – Stadl-Paura,
Engelhof – Gmunden: 750  =
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Western Railway from Salzburg
Station, station
 0.000 Lambach 365  m above sea level A.
   
 Western Railway to Vienna
   
 1,214 Connection to the Gartner freight forwarder terminal
   
 2.229 AB Stadlbauer
   
 2,390 Traun
Station, station
 3.535 Stadl-Paura 365  m above sea level A.
   
 Local train to Vorchdorf- Eggenberg
   
 3.791 AB Army Ammunition Establishment
   
 8.197 Haidermoos
   
 8.386 Train reporting post 1
   
 11.824 Roitham am Traunfall 428  m above sea level A.
   
 13.786 Traunfall
Station without passenger traffic
 14.130 Steyrermühl parking facility
Road bridge
 West Highway
Station without passenger traffic
 15.776 Steyrermühl 439  m above sea level A.
Station without passenger traffic
 18,068 Laakirchen 439  m above sea level A.
Gleisdreieck - straight ahead, ex to the right, from the right
 18,867 AB Heinzl Paper
Station without passenger traffic
 18,920 Laakirchen parking facility
   
 21,190 current end of the route
   
 21,368 Oberweis
   
 21.983 Connection Höllereisen - closed since 2009
   
 23,413 Mosham
   
 Local railway from Vorchdorf- Eggenberg ( meter gauge )
Stop, stop
 25.055 Engelhof (from 2009 only meter gauge) 472  m above sea level A.
Stop, stop
 25,800 Lembergweg (from 2009 only meter gauge )
   
 to Gmunden Traundorf (meter gauge until 1990)
   
 26,546 AB gasworks
   
 26,800 Gmunden Traundorf (2009-2014 only meter gauge)
Station, station
 Gmunden Seebahnhof (since 2014 only meter gauge)
   
 to Gmunden Klosterplatz
   
 27.144 Gmunden Seebahnhof (2009-2014 only meter gauge)

The Lambach – Gmunden local railway is a single-track railway line in Upper Austria that runs from Lambach via Laakirchen to Gmunden . It was created in 1857–1859 from the Lambach – Gmunden section of the Budweis – Linz – Gmunden horse-drawn railway .

The 3.5 km long Lambach – Stadl-Paura section is also part of the Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg local railway and is electrified. The line between Engelhof and Gmunden is also electrified and was equipped with a three- rail track to enable the meter-gauge local railway Gmunden – Vorchdorf to use it. The 21.6 km long central section Stadl-Paura-Engelhof has only been used by freight traffic since 1988.

history

First railway company

In the years 1835 and 1836 a line from Linz via Lambach to Gmunden was built as a southern extension of the Budweis – Linz horse-drawn tram , which largely followed the course of the Traun River. Initially, the connection of the First Railway Company with a track width of 1,106 mm was also operated with horses, before steam locomotives gradually took over the service in 1855 and 1856. The EEG - Marchtrenk to Zizlau were among the first used locomotives .

Due to the route Vienna – Linz – Lambach – Salzburg ( Westbahn ) of the kk privileged Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn (KEB), competition arose from the former horse-drawn railway, which in 1857 led to the takeover of the First Railway Company by the KEB. In 1859 a connecting track was built between the two previously separate Lambach train stations of the former horse-drawn railway and the Kaiserin-Elisabeth railway, and the Lambach – Linz horse-drawn railway section was closed.

State Railways

In 1884 the KEB was nationalized. In the same year, the trolley service was started between Lambach and Gmunden , with which the previously necessary reloading of the goods in Lambach could be omitted. In 1903 the track width of the line was finally changed from 1,106 mm to standard gauge .

On September 13, 1903, the local railway Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg , which branches off in Stadl-Paura and uses the track of the Lambach – Gmunden local railway between Lambach and Stadl-Paura, was put into operation. The operation of the branch line was initially subject to the state railway, before the Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft was commissioned to do so on May 1, 1931 . The new operator carried out the electrification of the Lambach – Vorchdorf-Eggenberg connection with the 750 V = power system by November 14, 1931 .

The Gmunden – Vorchdorf ( Traunseebahn ) local railway , which opened on March 21, 1912, was operated by Stern & Hafferl from the start . The narrow-gauge railway, also electrified with 750 V = , runs between Engelhof and Gmunden on the route of the Lambach – Gmunden local railway, which was provided with a three-rail track there until 2009. Until 1990 the trains from Vorchdorf ended at the Gmunden-Traundorf station, then at the Seebahnhof. The local railway has been linked to the Gmunden tram since autumn 2018 and the trains now end at Gmunden station.

The Austrian Federal Railways discontinued their passenger services between Lambach and Gmunden Seebahnhof on 28 May 1988th The last passenger train (P 3160) operated with the three-part rail bus set 5081.016 + 7081.023 + 6581.067 to Lambach. Since then, ÖBB passenger trains have served Gmunden exclusively via the main train station on the Salzkammergut Railway in the west of the city .

The ÖBB had its own operations on the Engelhof – Gmunden Seebahnhof section formally ceased on February 3, 2009. The link at Engelhof station was separated and the three-rail track dismantled.

In the spring of 2015, the route between Oberweis station and Engelhof was interrupted by the construction of the Gmunden east bypass. The route was discontinued on March 12, 2015. Freight traffic to Engelhof has been suspended since then, and a bridge would have to be built to restart. There are also plans to resume passenger traffic between Gmunden and Laakirchen via an extension of the Gmunden-Vorchdorf municipal regional railway . The route would have to be equipped with a meter gauge track.

In terms of freight traffic, the route now serves primarily to supply two paper mills in Steyrermühl and Laakirchen. The loading of gravel in Steyrermühl is also important.

  • Traun bridge between Lambach and Stadl-Paura

  • Stadl-Paura station building

  • Operations building in Laakirchen parking facility

  • Engelhof train station

  • End of the Traun Valley Railway in Gmunden Engelhof between 2009 and 2015

  • The route was interrupted by the Gmunden east bypass in spring 2015

Vehicle use

Narrow-gauge steam locomotives for the Linz – Gmunden line
number First name design type Construction year Manufacturer kkStB -Rh Remarks
1-10 LINZ 2B n2 1854-1855 Wr. Neustadt -
11-14 MARCHTRENK 1C1 n2 1855-1856 Wr. Neustadt -
Bt n2 1883 Krauss / Munich G 1-4
1Bt n2 1895 Krauss / Linz Gv 1-4 after re-gauging to 1435 mm kkStB 189

literature

Web links

Commons : Lokalbahn Lambach-Gmunden  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Austrian Railway Atlas . Verlag Schweers + Wall GmbH, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89494-128-6 , p. 32-33 .
  2. ^ Karl Weigl: Passenger transport Lambach - Gmunden Seebahnhof discontinued , in: Eisenbahnverkehr Aktuell 7/88, p. 7
  3. ↑ Answer to question 1270 / AB (XXIII. GP) of the Austrian National Council to the BMVIT
  4. ^ Rail Control (Ed.): Annual report . 2015, p. 73 ( parlament.gv.at [PDF]).
  5. ↑ Soon local railway between Gmunden and Laakirchen? Upper Austrian News from November 6, 2014
  6. ↑ "Transport secured for ten years"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - ÖBB press release from December 11, 2007@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.railcargo.at