Tullnerfeld Railway

Tullnerfelder Bahn (Tulln – St. Pölten Hbf)
Route number (ÖBB) :	110 01
Course book route (ÖBB) :	112 820
Route length:	47 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Network category :	B1
Power system :	15 kV 16.7 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	8  ‰
Minimum radius :	228 m
Top speed:	120 km / h
Legend Franz-Josefs-Bahn from Vienna 0.000 Tulln on the Danube 181  m above sea level A. Franz-Josefs-Bahn to Gmünd N.Ö. 0.866 Tulln city 1,221 AB ( Awanst ) Agrana 1.708 AB ( Awanst ) substation Tullnerfelder Ostschleife to the new Westbahn new Westbahn - from Vienna 6.576 Judenau-Sieghartskirchen loading point 7.046 Tullnerfeld 8.816 Pixendorf 11.665 Michelhausen 11.981 Michelhausen new Westbahn - to St. Pölten 12,998 Atzenbrugg 14,980 Moosbierbaum-Heiligeneich Operating track to the Dürnrohr & Donau Chemie power plant 16.879 Trasdorf 17,488 Operating track to the Dürnrohr substation 21.797 Sitzenberg-Reidling (loading point) 22,959 Commonbars 27,557 Traismauer 197  m above sea level A. 31,362 Getzersdorf 35,929 Herzogenburg city from Krems an der Donau 36.877 Herzogenburg 231  m above sea level A. 37,950 Herzogenburg-South 39,383 Unterradlberg (loading point) 41,427 Oberradlberg 43.110 Viehofen 251  m above sea level A. 44,585 St. Pölten Traisenpark 44.763 Connecting track ( Awanst ) gloss fabric Western Railway of Vienna 46.755 St. Pölten Hbf 273  m above sea level A. Western Railway to Salzburg

The Tullnerfelder Bahn is a single-track railway line in Lower Austria . It connects Tulln , the central town of the Tullnerfeld , with the state capital St. Pölten .

history

Vienna local traffic map October 1926, in the upper left half of the picture as route 35a the Tullnerfelderbahn

As early as 1871, Eduard Ritter von Raab (1837-1888), landowner in Czechowitz (Czechowice) and (also) in Gresten , was granted permission to undertake technical preparatory work for the construction of a 6.28 miles (47.64 km) long locomotive railway from Tulln via Traismauer to St. Pölten . Eight stations were planned: Tulln, Langenrohr , Rust , Gemein-Lebarn , Traismauer, Inzersdorf , Herzogenburg, Ober-Radelberg , St. Pölten.

In 1885, the railway line was built as a single-track line for the locomotive railway from St. Pölten to Tulln, including junctions , based on the concession document of May 12, 1884 (concessionaires: kk priv. Oesterreichische Länderbank in Vienna and Austrian Localeisenbahngesellschaft in Prague).

In the spring of 1900 the Imperial and Royal Railway Ministry granted the secretary of the Vienna Tramway Society i. P. Dr. Ludwig Mandl in Vienna received permission for a period of six months to carry out technical preparatory work for a standard gauge local railway from Neu-Lengbach via Inbruck, Asperhofen and Loibersdorf to Judenau or possibly to Michelhausen . - This unrealized project was apparently aimed at creating a connecting line between the West and Franz-Josefs-Bahn , which would have been superior to the Tulln - St. Pölten route in terms of distance and travel time.

The line was only electrified in 1981.

route

Michelhausen station

A freight train drives through the Michelhausen station.

The end of the line in Michelhausen station

Judenau-Sieghartskirchen train station

The line branches off from the Franz-Josefs-Bahn after the Tulln train station , reaches the Tulln-Stadt train station in the city area (where a loop in the opposite direction enables a direct connection to the Franz-Josefs-Bahn to the north) and then turns in southwest towards the Tullnerfeld , in order to swing towards the west at Judenau . After Michelhausen , where the Perschling is crossed, the direction changes to west-northwest until the valley of the Traisen is reached. After crossing the river, the route swings in approximately south to south-westerly direction parallel to the river and runs via Herzogenburg , where another route branches off to Krems an der Donau , to St. Pölten main station on the Westbahn .

The railway line belonged to the Lower Austria-Burgenland Transport Association (VVNB) until July 5, 2016 and also to the Eastern Region Transport Association (VOR) between Tulln and Traismauer . Since then, the entire route has been in VOR.

Since the 2006 timetable, the route has been served by the S40 S-Bahn line.

The construction of the new main train station in Vienna has far-reaching effects on rail traffic in the greater Vienna area. In order to relieve the Vienna Meidling station , which has partially replaced the Vienna Südbahnhof since the timetable change on December 13, 2009 , from freight traffic, freight trains coming from St. Pölten were led around Vienna via the Tullnerfelder, Franz-Josefs and Donauländebahn . Until the 2012/13 timetable change, passenger traffic on the Tullnerfelderbahn was carried out with replacement buses during the day . Since then, apart from the regional express train “Radtramper Donau”, the S40 S-Bahn has been running every hour on this route. While the REX travels the route without longer stops at the station, the S40 trains in the Tulln and Tullnerfeld stations have up to 16 minutes stopping time to make the connections from the Waldviertel / Vienna Franz-Josefs-Bahnhof in Tulln station and the connections from the direction of St. Pölten / Wien Westbahnhof or Wien Meidling to be seen.

Realignment from 2012

In the course of the construction of the new Westbahn between Vienna and St. Pölten , the Tullnerfelder Bahn between Tulln and Atzenbrugg was merged with the tracks of the newly created high-speed line and now runs around half a kilometer north of the previous route. The Michelhausen station was replaced by a station of the same name on the new route, and the Tullnerfeld station was also built between Judenau and Pixendorf , which is also served by Western Railway trains and is intended to serve as a large regional station for the entire catchment area. In addition, a track loop was built in the direction of travel Tulln - Wienerwaldtunnel . This loop enables trains from the northern Franz-Josefs-Bahn to be guided via the Tullnerfelderbahn, the Vienna Woods and Lainzer Tunnels to Vienna Central Station and beyond. In the 2013 to 2015 timetable, a pair of REX trains between Krems an der Donau and Wien Westbahnhof were routed via this loop from Monday to Friday .

vehicles

Before the line was electrified, the locomotives of the ÖBB series 154 , 54 , 266 and 3071 ( BBÖ DT 1 ) ran with compartment cars, and the series 2050 was added later . Since the contact wire replaced the diesel locomotives, the locomotive types ÖBB 1042 and a little later ÖBB 1044 and Taurus have been running . In passenger traffic, single trains of the 4020 series are mostly used as rapid transit trains.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Railroad News. (...) Eduard Ritter von Raab (...). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 2562/1871, October 12, 1871, p. 12, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ Trade, Industry and Transport. (...) Railway line St. Pölten via Traismauer to Tulln. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 19/1872, January 25, 1872, p. 332, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ RGBl. 1884/104. In:  Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrathe , year 1884, pp. 257–262. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Trade, Industry, Transport and Agriculture. (...) pre-concession. In:  Wiener Zeitung , No. 51/1900, March 4, 1900, p. 9, bottom right. (Online at ANNO ). .
5. ↑ ÖBB Passenger Information, page 3 top right, PDF accessed on December 16, 2009

Remarks

1. ↑ Possible branch lines:
   1. A branch from the main line next to Judenau to St. Andrä - Wrogen to the connection to the Kaiser-Franz-Josephbahn;
   2. a junction, starting next Traismauer to Mautern, and
   3. from there or another point of the aforementioned junction by means of a stable bridge over the Danube to Krems, as well as
   4. a continuation from Krems or a suitable point of the Absdorf-Kremser wing of the Kaiser- Franz-Josephbahn via Langenlois through the Kampthal to Horn and to the Siegmundsherberg station;
   5. a continuation from Tulln or St. Andrä - Wierenden by means of a second track to be connected to the railway body of the Kaiser-Franz-Josephbahn to Vienna, and
   6. a local train to be established as a steam tramway from Klosterneuburg through the Kierlingbachthal to connect to a suitable point the St. Pölten - Tulln line.
   See: The Economist. (...) Localbahn St.Pölten – Tulln. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 7105/1884, June 8, 1884, p. 9, top right. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ Headquarters moved from Löwelstraße  18 to Hohenstaufengasse 3 in 1884 . - See: Oesterreichische Länderbank, Kaiserlich-Königliche privilegirte . In: Adolph Lehmann ’s general housing indicator , Vienna 1884, p. 1134, bottom right.