Vorarlberg Railway

This article covers the former company. For the built of this routes see railway Lindau-Bludenz , railway St. Margrethen-Lauterach and Feldkirch-Buchs railway .

Seal of the company

Loan from 1884

The company's timetable of October 24, 1872, the opening day of the branch line to Buchs. The branch line to St. Margrethen was not yet in operation at the time.

The kk privileged Vorarlberger Bahn , abbreviated VB , was a railway company in Austria that was founded in 1871 and nationalized in 1885 . In various external publications, the name Vorarlbergbahn is used as an alternative , which, as the entry in the commercial register shows, is incorrect.

history

The private railway , constituted as a stock corporation with its seat in Vienna , received its license from the Ministry of the Interior on May 5, 1871. On June 9, the statutes were approved, on July 3 the constitutional act took place and on July 8 the entry in the commercial register . She had practically unlimited capital because her shares had been oversubscribed twenty times.

The Vorarlberger Bahn operated a total of 90.005 kilometers long network, including 78.678 kilometers in the eponymous federal state of Vorarlberg , 8.963 kilometers in the Principality of Liechtenstein and 2.364 kilometers in Switzerland , the operations management was located in Feldkirch station . In detail, these were the following sections, all of which went into operation in the course of 1872:

• State border with Bavaria – Bludenz , including the connecting curve at Lauterach (62.959 kilometers)
• Feldkirch – Buchs (17.992 kilometers)
• St. Margrethen – Lauterach (9.054 kilometers)

The 5.941 km long connecting route between the Lindauer Hauptbahnhof and the Bavarian -Austrian border at the bridge over the Leiblach the Company had the Bavarian State in lease taken, the entire operating length of the society was thus 95.946 km.

Since there was initially no direct connection to the rest of the Austrian railway network - the Arlberg tunnel did not go into operation until 1884 - the Vorarlberg Railway suffered from a decline in operating costs. In order to cover this, the company had to make use of state operating cost advances in addition to the net income guarantee.

On June 24, 1882, the government decreed that the company would be taken over into the state enterprise on the basis of the Sequestration Act of December 14, 1877 and that the company would be run for the account of the company. With the agreement of December 11, 1883, the state administration was granted the right to acquire the Vorarlberger Bahn at any time from July 1, 1884. The redemption took place on December 20, 1885.

vehicles

• Locomotives 1-6, 7 "-9"
• Locomotives 17–20

literature

Vorarlberg Railway. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 10: Transitional bridges - intermediate station . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1923, p.  222 ff.

Web links

• Locomotives of the kk priv. Vorarlberger Bahn (VB) on pospichal.net, accessed on March 6, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal of the Austrian Association of Engineers and Architects, XXIX. Volume, Volume X, p. 200.
2. ^ Centralblatt für Eisenbahnen und Dampfschiffahrt of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, XI. Volume, No. 79, Vienna, October 5, 1872, p. 945
3. ^ Hans Wegmann: The United Swiss Railways. Dissertation Zurich 1917, p. 184
4. ^ Company minutes. In:  Official Journal of the Wiener Zeitung , July 20, 1871, p. 92, column 2 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ State Treaty of August 27, 1870, between Austria-Hungary, also representing Liechtenstein, Bavaria and Switzerland, on the construction of a railway from Lindau via Bregenz to St. Margarethen, and from Feldkirch to Buchs . In: Reichsgesetzblatt . tape 13 , born in 1871. Bregenz August 27, 1871, p. 23 ff . ( onb.ac.at ).