Wels main station

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Wels main station
Wels Central Station.jpg
Wels Hauptbahnhof station
Data
Operating point type Branch station
Platform tracks 7th
abbreviation We
Architectural data
architect Franz Maul , Maximilian Lugner
location
City / municipality catfish
state Upper Austria
Country Austria
Coordinates 48 ° 9 '56 "  N , 14 ° 1' 36"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 9 '56 "  N , 14 ° 1' 36"  E
Railway lines
List of train stations in Austria
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The Wels main station is a traffic junction in Upper Austria . It is the starting point of the Wels – Passau railway to Passau Hauptbahnhof and the Almtalbahn to Grünau im Almtal , which branch off from the Westbahn here .

As part of the “ train station offensive ”, Wels central station was completely rebuilt and opened at the end of 2005.

history

On April 1, 1835, the horse-drawn railway from Budweis to Gmunden was opened, which ran through Wels . In addition to people, it also transported salt from the Salzkammergut , which was shipped in Linz or transported on to Bohemia. The narrow-gauge horse-drawn railway ran directly through the city center in Wels (Kaiser Josef Platz, Dragonerstraße). From 1855, the horses were replaced by steam locomotives on this route and then ran between Gmunden and Linz. The northern branch of the horse-drawn railway was not suitable for the locomotives because of the route. In 1859/1860 the standard-gauge western railway from Vienna to Salzburg was opened, making the old line obsolete. The railway now ran north of Wels, the station building was relocated to its current location and consisted of an elongated central section with corner pavilions at both ends. The station was built in the romantic style. At that time there were only four traffic tracks. When the Passau Railway was being planned, it was decided not to go to Linz, but to Wels, as the branch point for this branch of the Westbahn. This decision made the Wels train station an important rail network node. The Passau Railway was already completed in 1861 (initially single-track).

In 1886 the Wels local railway company built the railway to Aschach , the track of which lay next to that of the Passau railway as far as Haiding. In 1893 another branch line was built by the same company, this time to the south, the later Almtalbahn . It was led via Sattledt and Kremsmünster to Rohr, where the line met the Pyhrn Railway , which was then competing . In 1901 a branch line to Grünau im Almtal was built from Sattledt, the actual Almtalbahn. The original route to Rohr, on which trains from Wels were even tied through to Bad Hall, had to be discontinued in 1965 due to being unprofitable.

Due to the heavy traffic, the station had to be enlarged. After the First World War there were already plans for improvements. The Deutsche Reichsbahn carried out the double-track expansion of the Passau Railway, which was completed in autumn 1938. The trains of the Aschacher Bahn continued to run from / to Wels and now used the respective track of the main line. To the east of the main station, the shunting station was opened in Pernau , and the train transport was also relocated from the north-west of the main station.

In 1937 the station was rebuilt. During the Second World War, the station suffered heavy air raids. After the reconstruction in 1945, the building was given a new look. In 1951 the station and all side tracks were electrified from the west. The island platforms with underpasses were only added in 1959. There was an iron bridge above the station that connected Wels to the Neustadt district , and in the same year it was replaced by an underpass (Grieskirchner Straße).

In 1992 a new central signal box in Wels was built. The “Rollende Landstrasse” was opened near the shunting yard, in which trucks were transported by train between Wels and Mainz. Trains from Wels to many European destinations now run there.

In 2003, the main station was rebuilt as part of the aforementioned station offensive. The pedestrian underpass to the platforms, which was replaced by a bridge, was omitted. In 2005 the main train station was completed. In 2019, the VCÖ association named Wels Central Station as the third best train station outside of a state capital.

railway station

The station is divided into three levels:

  • On the first level (ground floor) there is the post office, a flower shop and a café, a tobacco shop, a magazine and book shop and two ticket machines.
  • The second level (1st floor) houses a mobile phone shop, an internet shop, a hairdresser, a bakery, a restaurant, a ticket machine and the ÖBB travel center.
  • On the third level (2nd floor) there is the public toilet and access to the connecting bridge. There is another ticket machine in the transition to Neustadt.

Platforms

There are seven through tracks (tracks 1-6 and 8) and four butt tracks (tracks 7a / b, 11 and 12).

The platforms are connected by a footbridge that connects the 2nd floor of the station with the Neustadt district. There are three entrances to each platform (elevator and two flights of stairs or escalators), except for platforms 1 and 11, 12.

Bus station

There is a bus station in front of the train station, where post buses and the Wels line stop.

photos

See also

Web links

Commons : Wels Hauptbahnhof  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ÖBB Infrastructure Construction: opening of Wels railway station. ( Memento from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, 1.57 MB, online)
  2. ^ ÖBB Infrastructure Construction: opening of Wels railway station. ( Memento from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file, 1.57 MB, online)
  3. Austria's best train stations. In: COMMUNAL. August 22, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
  4. Travel information about the train station and equipment
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