Waldbahn Reichraming

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Waldbahn Reichraming
Reichraming - Mairalm - Hanslgraben / Unterweißwasser
Route number (ÖBB) : 913 01 (Reichraming-Unterweißwasser)
913 02 (Haselbrücke-Wällerhütte)
Route length: 40.7 km
Gauge : 760 mm ( Bosnian gauge )
Maximum slope : 47  ‰
Minimum radius : 32 m
Geographical data
continent Europe
country Austria
state Upper Austria
Route-related data
Legend
            
Reichraming Bhf
            
-1.833 Loading ramp (from 1951)
            
-1.824 Loading track (until 1951)
            
-1,570 Crossing full / narrow gauge (from 1951)
            
-1.534 Junction to the loading ramp (from 1951)
            
-1.098
            
0.000 Schallau Bhf
            
1.194 Niglbach Bridge (4 m)
            
4.184 Weissenbach track triangle
            
Reichramingbach
            
Weissenbach camp
            
4,959 Anzenstückl junction (length 480 m)
            
5.003 Anzenbach Bridge (9 m)
            
5.466 Anzenbach tunnel (11 m)
            
6,980 Maieralm junction
            
7.030 Plaissabach Bridge (17 m)
            
7.623 Nameless bridge (6 m)
            
8.158 Nameless bridge (9 m)
            
8.406 Lower water floor tunnel (35 m)
            
9.113 Junction loading track (length 137 m)
            
10.004 Upper water floor tunnel (31 m)
            
10,250 Water floor junction (length 120 m)
            
10.281 Wasserbodenbach Bridge (6 m)
            
11,556 Weyrer Brunnbach Bridge (8 m)
            
11,995 Rabenbach junction (length 250 m)
            
12,174 Red earth tunnel (20 m, removed in 1971)
            
12.683 Lower Klaus Tunnel (71 m)
            
12.815 Upper Klaus Tunnel (110 m)
            
12,494 Junction taxiway track 60 cm (length 187 m)
            
13.113 Junction loading track (length 220 m)
            
13,242 Plaissabach Bridge (15 m)
            
13,888 Branch to the bakery warehouse (length 430 m)
            
13,940 Plaissabach Bridge (11 m)
            
15.090 Lower Kraixen Tunnel (49 m, closed in 1971)
            
15.777 Upper Kraixen Tunnel (60 m, closed in 1971)
            
16,252 Lower Annerlsteg tunnel (42 m, closed in 1971)
            
16,321 Annerlsteg or Großer Bach-Brücke (24 m)
            
16,326 Hanslgraben (end of the route)
            
16.497 Upper Annerlsteg tunnel (305 m)
            
16,944 High stair tunnel (236 m)
            
17.263 Lower staircase tunnel (339 m)
            
17.424 Wallerhütte junction
            
17,480 Hasel Bridge 1 (22 m)
            
17.565 Upper Hasel Tunnel (139 m)
            
17.640 Hasel Bridge 3 (22 m)
            
17,650 Lower Wällerhütten tunnel (150 m)
            
17.748 Hasel Bridge 2 (20 m)
            
17.877 Hochschlachtbach Bridge (7 m)
            
18,089 Hochschlacht tunnel (72 m)
            
18,329 Upper Wällerhütten tunnel (61 m)
            
18.736 Wällerhütte (end of the route)
            
19.292 Schwarzer Bach Bridge (12 m)
            
19,344 Wolf's head tunnel (82 m)
            
19,552 Lower Schwarzer Klaus Tunnel (78 m)
            
19.639 Upper Schwarzer Klaus Tunnel (31 m)
            
20,370 Under white water (end of the route)

The Reichraming forest railway served to develop the forests in the Reichraminger Hintergebirge and had a track width of 760 mm.

history

Forest road and bike path on the former forest railway line
Bike path at Schleierfall

Before the forest railway could be built , the tree trunks from the Hintergebirge were lifted along the Great Bach (Reichramingbach) to the rake in the Schallau, and they were transported to the Reichraming train station first by horse-drawn cart and later on a taxiway (60 cm track).

Another (privately built) runway (length approx. 3 km, lane 76 cm) had existed since 1912 along the Weißenbach from the Kreuzeckbach to the Ramingbach, where the trunks were let into the water. In 1916, this track was extended by 164 m to the Weißenbach camp. In 1918 the army administration began building an extension to the Schallau. In the same year, work was stopped again at the end of the war. Work started again in 1919, and a year later the route (length 9.4 km) including a bridge over the Ramingbach was completed.

At the same time, between 1910 and 1912 the Federal Forests created a project to develop the forests near Brunnbach, but did not implement it. Due to a wind disaster in 1916, there was a large amount of damaged wood in the Hintergebirge, but this could not be processed because of the war. The damage from the bark beetle infestation was enormous. Therefore, in 1918, the plans from 1912 were reverted to and by 1922 the section from the Weißenbach junction (km 4.2) over the Maieralm to Brunnbach was built, the following year it was extended to the Hanselgraben. Almost no engineering structures were required, with the exception of a short tunnel after the Anzenstückl and two bridges over the Plaissabach on the Brunnalm.

For strategic reasons, the line had to be built in the Bosnian gauge (760 mm), the smallest radius was 40 m. At the same time, the runway to Reichraming station was re-gauged and connected to the forest railway. There was, however, an arc with a radius of only 32 m under the ÖBB bridge . There was evasion in the Schallau, at the Gleisdreieck Weißenbach, at the Wilden Graben, at the Maieralm, at Brunnbach and at the bakery warehouse.

When the Trift on the Großer Bach was stopped in 1936, no more wood came to Reichraming from the Hintergebirge, so the construction of a branch line along the Großer Bach began. Due to the war, this work was stopped again in 1942, but resumed in 1947, and finally the route from the Maieralm to Unterweißwasser and to the Wällerhütte was completed in 1951. This new section led through the gorges of the Great Bach (11 tunnels), the Black Bach (5 tunnels) and the Haselbach (2 tunnels), and there was also a diversion shortly after the Klaushütte. At the same time, loading at Reichraming station was streamlined: the loading track on the station forecourt was replaced by a raised ramp track on the south side of the station. This required the installation of a cross between full and narrow gauge . Together with the side tracks, side tracks and sidings, the total length of the track was 40.7 km, plus 19 tunnels (total length 1.922 km) and 41 bridges.

The Reichraming forest railway, which was shut down in 1971, was one of the largest and longest in operation in Austria . After they were closed, the tracks were dismantled and forest roads laid on the tracks, the majority of the tunnels and all bridges were widened, two tunnels, however, blocked (the first Kraixen tunnel and the tunnel in front of the Annerlsteg), two others completely removed (the red soil- and the second Kraixen tunnel). Today, these forest roads are part of the Hintergebirgsradweg , whereby the Maieralm to Unterweißwasser section may only be used on weekends when there is no timber transport, and the branch to the Wällerhütte is not allowed at all, as driving is prohibited.

Museales

In the center of Reichraming, an original and restored diesel locomotive of the Waldbahn is shown and occasionally demonstrated while driving on a short section of track . In Brunnbach there is a reconstruction of a small station of the forest railway next to an information building of the national park. The reconstruction contains tracks, a switch and, as vehicles, a loaded wooden train with a steam locomotive . The locomotive , however, is not an original forest railway locomotive . At the closed south portal of the Annerlsteg tunnel, a few meters of track were rebuilt as a showpiece.

Some locomotives have also been preserved on museum railways and museums.

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