Wels industrial railway

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The Welser Industriebahn was a non-electrified railway line for transporting goods in the Upper Austrian city of Wels . It was opened in 1922 and served the Wels industrial area. In 1987 the track was held by 20 members of the cooperative.

Heating house of the Wels industrial railway

course

Shortly before the Wels main train station, its track branched off from the Westbahntrasse in the direction of the Wels marshalling yard, crossed Dr.-Groß-Strasse and continued south, where it reached the boiler house. Then she crossed Hans-Sachs-Strasse parallel to the former state women's clinic and a little later Linzer-Strasse. On what is now EWW AG's site, it separated into a western and an eastern branch. The western branch ran parallel to Wiesenstrasse past the warehouse to the Adler leather factory in downtown Wels. The eastern branch crossed the eastern tangent and ended in the Wels paper mill.

Boiler house (engine shed)

Originally the engine shed was owned by the Adler company (Adlerhof), (1-track). At the beginning of the 1940s, a new building was built in Hans-Sachs-Strasse, which was initially also 1-track, then later expanded to 2 tracks towards the end of the 1940s. Approx. In 1953 an office building was added. Next to the locomotive shed there was also an 8 m long weighbridge.

Locomotives

  • Steam locomotive 22IIC Krauss & C. (Until 1952)
  • Diesel locomotive Jenbach 100-V20 (No. 70.502)
  • Diesel locomotive Deutz A3M420R (No. 33044)

Establishments

Trunk line

  • Epple-Buxbaum (agricultural machinery manufacturer): This track was served by the ÖBB and was not connected to the Wels industrial railway, but it was then served by the Wels industrial railway when the ÖBB could not operate it due to a lack of suitable locomotives.
  • Strebelwerk (boilers and radiators), 2 sidings.
  • Coal shop Waltl, later leased to food wholesaler Stadlbauer, 1 track. Today Bruckmüller tires.
  • Mannesmannröhren- und Eisenhandels AG. Large tube warehouse, 1 track. Today Technometall.
  • Gebrüder Schinninger, (oven construction, fireclay and building material works), 1 track, track shared by the Freimüller company. Today Antik Hesz,
  • Culemayer track (loading of wagons on low loaders for road transport), track was removed in 1958.

Western branch

  • Knorr (food manufacturer) , in the factory, 2 parallel tracks and 1 declining stump track. Today the company Landena Wels KG.
  • Welser Gaswerk (later E-Werk Wels, today Eww.AG) 1 track.
  • Spanblöchl (soap products) shared track, opposite the company in Wiesenstr. (between E-Werk W. and warehouse).
  • Wels warehouse, 2 tracks and own scales south of the silo, and 1 track north of. Silo, in the 1990s the main track that once ran in the direction of the Adlerhof was moved to the Silo "Neu" warehouse, on the left of Wiesenstrasse.
  • Blum, 1 track (hat factory) until 1935, later Roberta Blum, track co-user Intercontinentale, Maschik furniture store, professional gardening and seed-growing cooperative.
  • Gortana iron wholesaler, 1 track.
  • Fa. Zelger (butcher) shared use of the track, Wiesenstr. towards the Zelger company.
  • Felber Eisen, track co-user, Konrad Meindelstr.
  • Adler (leather factory), later called Adlerhof, with 2 tracks, leased to the warehouse cooperative, shared by the company Glaserei Pammer

Eastern branch

  • Wels paper factory (closed 1978). In the factory premises, the track was divided into 2 parallel tracks, which merged again and then branched out on 4 butt tracks.

The former paper factory later housed a number of freight forwarders (Panalpina, Führer & Brandl, Englmayer), a recycling company (Walter), and Lutz (furniture dealer), who continued to use the Wels industrial railway. Today the Englmayer company.

  • Englmayer (transport company)
  • Jeitler (agricultural machinery)

attitude

The line between the Adlerwerk and the warehouse was shut down in the 1950s. After the closure of the Wels paper mill in 1978, the operation of the cooperative's own locomotives became unprofitable and was therefore taken over by the ÖBB . There were always plans to extend the railway into the Boschstraße industrial area. In the 2010s, however, the entire track system was removed. In addition, there was a Fritsch company railway in Wels, which was connected to the local train station and ran parallel to Maria-Theresia-Straße.

Web links

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