Ybbstalbahn – Wikipedia

Waidhofen an der Ybbs-Kienberg-Gaming Gstadt–Ybbsitz
Logo of the Citybahn Waidhofen
Line number (ÖBB):	156 01 Waidhofen − Kienberg-Gaming 157 01 Gstadt – Ybbsitz
Course book line (ÖBB):	132
Route length:	70,9 + 5,7 km
Trade distance:	760 mm (Bosnian trace)
Maximum inclination:	19 ‰
Top speed:	60 km/h
Transition from the Rudolfsbahn 0.000 Waidhofen an der Ybbs Waidhofen an der Ybbs Kupferschmiedgasse 360 m ü. A. Schwarzbachviadukt 1.586 Waidhofen an der Ybbs Schillerpark 366 m ü. A. 1.983 Waidhofen on the Ybbs Local Railway 367 m ü. A. 2.800 Waidhofen an der Ybbs Vogelsang 367 m ü. A. 2.993 From Rothschild’s domains Waidhofen on Ybbs Pestalozzistraße 367 m ü. A. 3.857 Waidhofen an der Ybbs Kreilhof 371 m ü. A. after-content-x4 5,468 0.000 Gstadt 375 m ü. A. 0.328 Ybbs (steel beam bridge) 0.450 Pouring 1,280 Ek b 22 1,286 Little Ybbs 1.463 Steinmühl 3.007 AB Riess 3,369 Ederlehen 3,401 Ek b 22 4,575 Ek b 22 4,831 Gurhof 4,886 Ek b 22 5,486 Little Ybbs 5,527 From Ybbsitzer Land- & Forestry 5,732 Ybbsitz 405 m ü. A. 5,793 Ek b 21 7,647 Gaissulz 381 m ü. A. 11,113 Ek b 21 11,600 Furth-Prolling 396 m ü. A. 12,350 Mirenau 397 m ü. A. 13,752 Opponitz 403 m ü. A. 13,877 Ek b 21 14.0 Opponitzer Tunnel (87 m) 16,057 Seeburg 408 m ü. A. 19,453 Hohenlehen 420 m ü. A. 22,566 Small Hollenstein 435 m ü. A. 23,830 Saimannslehen 440 m ü. A. 25,509 Großhollenstein 449 m ü. A. 28,800 Oisberg 458 m ü. A. 31,452 Blalu 468 m ü. A. 33.049 Königsberg 474 m ü. A. 34,787 Obereinöd 484 m ü. A. 35,973 Sankt Georgen am Reith 487 m ü. A. 39,506 Kogelsbach 505 m ü. A. 44.063 Göstling on the Ybbs 524 m ü. A. 47,427 Stiegengraben-Ybbbstalerhütte 549 m ü. A. 52,146 Crate 577 m ü. A. 53,555 Lunz am See 585 m ü. A. Waldbahn to Langau 54.0 Lunz Amonhaus 598 m ü. A. 55.2 Gasthof zur Paula 621 m ü. A. 56.0 woodapple 628 m ü. A. 59.7 Punch 694 m ü. A. 61.9 Bachcviaduct (79 m) 63.1 Chicken nest 597 m ü. A. 63.3 Chickenest Viaduct (94 m) 66.2 Mine 516 m ü. A. 67.9 Gaming 460 m ü. A. 66.9 Gsteten 403 m ü. A. 70.9 Kienberg-Gaming 391 m ü. A. Transition to the Erlauftalbahn

47,9682 14,76605 Coordinates: 47 ° 58 ′ N , 14 ° 46 ′ O The Ybbstalbahn Was one in the Lower Austrian
Mostviertel Located narrow -gauge railway with a track width of 760 mm (Bosnian track width). The main route originally followed the valley of the Ybbs from Waidhofen an der Ybbs to the market town of Lunz am See, where the mountain route to Kienberg-Gaming begins. In Gstadt, a stab in Ybbsitz also branched off.

The ÖBB operation ended on December 11, 2010. On December 12, 2010, the infrastructure of the Ybbstalbahn was taken over from the state of Lower Austria. ^[first] Since then, only the Waidhofen sections on the Ybbs – Waidhofen on the Ybbs Pestalozzistraße have been ^[2] ( Citybahn Waidhofen the Lower Austria or the Mountain route Ybbest halfahn, Ötscherland-Express , Museum Railway Kienberg – Gaming – Lunz/See der NÖLB Lower Austrian local railways. in operation. In the summer of 2013, the museum railway in the western part was expanded to include the Lunz -Göstling section, which was given up again in 2018. The other sections of the route had been closed to storm damage since early summer 2009 and were hired by the country with the takeover. The rest of the route is under the name Citybahn Waidhofen operated.

Waidhofen an der Ybbs – Lunz am See [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The Ybbstalbahn has its starting point on the narrow -gauge railway on the station forecourt from Waidhofen an der Ybbs, where the operating facilities such as vehicle hall, workshop and the facilities for the invitation of the goods are also housed on the standard gauge. The railway initially serves several stations in the urban area of ​​Waidhofen, which primarily serve local transport, followed by 5.5 km, the Gstadt train station, in which the branch line to Ybbsitz branched off.

The main route continued to follow the YBBS, which is crossed twice in a row, the next larger places are Opponitz, here is the only tunnel of the Ybbstalbahn, and after 25 km Hollenstein an der Ybbs (train station Großhollenstein ). From here, the route was characterized by small stops away from larger settlements, which were mainly used by hikers during the summer, only in Sankt Georgen am Reith was noteworthy local passenger volume. The tourism community Göstling on the Ybbs already located in the Scheibbs district is at kilometer 44, and after another nine kilometers, the former end station Lunz am See follows.

The sequel about the Punch According to Kienberg-Gaming and thus the connection to the normal-lane Erlauftalbahn into the district capital Scheibbs Ybbst Half-Rahn-Bergfreiten by the association Lower Austria Local Railways. M.B.H. operated.

Until the 1970s, the Lunz ambahn station was the starting point for a forest railway in the OIS valley to Langau with a lane 700 mm.

Gstadt – Ybbsitz [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

A train with locomotive in the 2091 series leaves Ybbsitz towards Waidhofen (1991)

After the Gstadt train station, the route branched off from the main route in a sharp left sheet and crossed the Ybbs on a steel beam bridge. The train, which follows the valley of the little Ybbs, served several small stops and ended in the market town of Ybbsitz after almost six kilometers. The railway crossed the state road several times on levels of railway crossings, which in this section of the route particularly often led to conflict situations with drivers. ^[3]

Kienberg-Gaming – Lunz/See (Museumsbahn) [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

The starting point of the museum railway is now the Kienberg-Gaming train station, the former end point of the main line of the Ybbstalbahn from Waidhofen from kilometer and at the same time the former end station of the standard-gauge Erlauftalbahn from ÖBB. Thus, the route description also takes place in accordance with the customs of the operator in this direction. In Kienberg-Gaming, the railway facilities are located: the locomotive shed with a workshop, which has been enlarged since the takeover by the ÖGLB, a turntable, and a completely newly built car parking hall.

Shortly after leaving the train station, the train crosses the federal road to Gaming and a little later, on a steel specialist bridge, the Pockaubach and the road to Gresten. From here, the lines follow to the apex when a steep, forested mountain lean, at which the Gaming stop above the town center is reached. The more open terrain offers a nice panoramic view of the town and the Charterhouse Gaming, then the train immerse yourself in dense high forest, and steep rocky parts are always crossed in deep cuts. This section contains the two symbols of the mountain route, two steel viaducts in Trestle construction, which otherwise only used the Stubai Valley in Austria. Both bridges are under monument protection. In 2006 just after the chicken nest Viaduct, the stop was Chicken nest opened. The maximum incline in this steepest part of the Ybbstalbahn is 34.4 ‰, which is also the strongest climb of all Austrian narrow -gauge railways with a track width of 760 mm.

At an altitude of 699 m, the route reaches its apex at Pfaffenschlag, and at the same time also pass height of the Bodingsattel and the parallel state road. In the station of the same name, the water supply of the steam locomotives is supplemented, then the route follows the valley of the Bodingbach on its eastern slope. Here, too, the tracks lead through cuts in the rock several times, in particularly steep terrain they are laid on solid retaining walls. After the stop woodapple , which was primarily used to load the wood at the time of the planning company, the first houses of the summer fresh Lunz am See will soon follow, where the railway line partly runs in a confined space between the roofs of the houses and a rock wall. On August 4, 2007, the stop was Gasthof zur Paula opened right next to the restaurant of the same name and the pension. After crossing the Bodingbach, the museum railway reached the Lunz am See station, which, regulated by a contractual work, was used together with the planning company of the Ybbstalbahn of the ÖBB until May 15, 2010. After the route towards Göstling was closed to plan traffic in summer 2009, the NÖLB was handed over to the regulation of train traffic in Lunz am Lake train station from May 15, 2010. The station has been owned by the state of Lower Austria since December 12, 2010. From July 20, 2013 to 2018, the trains of the museum railway to Göstling will run on the YBBS.

Due to the ten-year procedure for the establishment permit initiated in March 2014, traffic between Lunz am See and Kienberg-Gaming has been discontinued since September 2014. The conclusion of the procedure is said to have been delayed as a result of a draisine accident and the associated more precise examination of the route. The railway has been back in operation since August 8, 2015; ^[4] The loss of revenue resulting from the standstill should be 50,000 euros. ^[5]

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  Train with diesel locomotive in the 2095 series in Waidhofen local station

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  ÖBB train in Gstadt (2000)

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  Ybbsitz train station, final train station of the branch line

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  Museumslok Yv.2 des Club 598 in Lunz am See

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  The chickenest grave bridge (2012)

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  Museum vehicles parked in Kienberg-Gaming (2009)

Bandling over 400 crowns of the Ybstbst halfahn from February 1, 1902

As early as 1870, it was planned to build a standard -lane railway line from Pöchlarn via Kienberg – Gaming to Lunz am See through the valley of the Erlauf and the Ybbs, which was to be extended in a later expansion phase via Göstling on the Ybbs to Hieflau in the Ennstal. The Börsenkrach of Vienna in 1873, however, caused an abrupt end to the project, which was already being planned. The Erlauftalbahn, which was opened in 1877, was therefore only realized from this route, which had essentially followed the historic Lower Austrian Eisenstrasse.

In the 1880s, representatives of the Ybbstal again sought the construction of a local railway, but only in 1893 the tough negotiations with the Reich Ministeries were completed. The Reichsrat passed a law on December 26 of the same year Regarding the manufacture of the Ybbstbst halfahn ^[6] .

With Concession certificate from October 22, 1894, for the Localbahn from Waidhofen an der Ybbs to Kienberg Kienberg – Gaming (Ybbstbst halfahn) ^[7] became The right to the building and businesses of a locomotive railway from Waidhofen on the Ybbs of the Amstetten – Kleinreifling state railway line, Göstling and Lunz, which is to be performed as a narrow -gauge local railway. . Before the start of construction, the Interior Ministry of September 11, 1895 was decided to found a stock corporation with the investment capital of 1,612,000 guilders.

On June 1, 1895, the groundbreaking ceremony for the first section of Waidhofen – great Hollenstein in Waidhofen took place. The opening of this section took place on July 15, 1896. Three years later, on May 15, 1898, the second section from Groß-Hollenstein to Lunz am See opened. In the same year, on November 12th, the most difficult third part of Lunz am See was released to Kienberg-Gaming for traffic. Thus, the construction of the 71 km long railway only took three years. The branch line from Gstadt to Ybbsitz was handed over to traffic on March 9, 1899.

With the construction of the railway, the wood rafting, which has many families, was competitive and discontinued. However, the iron and steel, which processed the steel, was better connected to the Erzberg and at the same time to the main customers in the Danube region and blossomed.

Historical photo gallery [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

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  Decorated locomotive of the opening train in Großhollenstein, July 15, 1896

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  NUMBER NUENTARGE DRAURAGE DF/S 102

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  Train with Lok U.12 in the Pfaffenschlag station, 1898

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  Train with Lok U.15 at Kienberg-Gaming station, 1899

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Setting the mountain route and reactivation as a museum railway [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Train with UV.1 in the Kienberg-Gaming

This climbing section of the Ybbstalbahn with a length of 17.5 km was opened in 1898 and combined the upper Ybbstal around Lunz am See and Göstling on the Ybbs with the Erlauftal and via the connection to the normal gauge with the district capital of Scheibbs. The emigration of the passenger potential to the private car and buses on the faster road connection via the Grubberg, as well as the processing of freight transport via Waidhofen an der YbBs led to a continuous decline in income, which the mountain route has repeatedly brought into setting discussions since the 1970s . In the end, this development actually led to the employment of the company in May 1988. ^[8]

In order to precede a removal of the railway, the association founded ÖGLB (Austrian Society for Local Railways), which at that time successfully operated the Lower Austrian Höllentalbahn as a museum railway, the operating company NÖLB (Lower Austrian local railways), which in 1990 opened the museum operation on the route leased by the ÖBB under the name “Ötscherland-Express”.

The economic importance of the Ybbstalbahn was very large, especially from its completion in 1898 to about 1960. Today important companies such as Welser profiles ^[9] Or the Böhler Studdeholm Group have their main works in Ybbsitz and Böhlerwerk and were the main employees in this region for many years. Due to the strong connection to industry and its need for fast loading and transport, the railway itself also became an important employer.

The Ybbstalbahn was the last narrow -gauge railway of ÖBB with freight transport. Due to the tunnel and the Schwarzbachviaduct in Waidhofen, no roller-off or trolley traffic was possible, only narrow-gauge trolleys ran until the company was stopped in 2010.

In 2006 and 2007, the route of the Ybbstalbahn was damaged by Hochwässern from the YBBS in several places, which resulted in the section between Großhollenstein and Lunz’s operating tales and rail replacement traffic of several months. Both times the damage was only remedied after months, but only the passability of the route was ensured. However, the remedy of numerous slow driving points was not made. Finally, the school transport was considered the most important pillar of the route to Lunz am See. With the change of timetable in December 2008, however, the offer was further reduced due to the longer travel times due to the slow travel points on the rail and the transport of schoolchildren was converted to buses. At the same time, when the timetable change in December 2008, the offer of the branch line to Ybbsitz was reduced to just one train pair in the winter timetable on working days.

Setting the valley route [ Edit | Edit the source text ]

Citybahn Waidhofen On the Schwarzbach Viaduct in Waidhofen an der Ybbs

A study presented in November 2008 by the traffic planner of the state of Lower Austria Friedrich Zibuschka recommended the complete setting of the Ybbstalbahn and its replacement by a bus line network. According to the study, this would be much cheaper than the renovation and continued operation of the railway. ^[ten] A bike path was to be built on the railway line, the section from Göstling to Lunz am See was offered to the ÖGLB association to extend its museum railway operation. A joint initiative of the clubs Pro Ybbstalbahn and Club 598 had collected around 5,700 signatures to maintain the YBBSTALBAGE by November 2008. ^[11] A decision was originally expected until Easter 2009, but was postponed several times. In the meantime, there were private initiatives to found a cooperative that the Ybbstalbahn should acquire for one euro from the federal government and look for an operator for it. These plans are supported by ProBahn, the Greens and ex-ÖBB boss Rüdiger Vorm Walde. ^[twelfth]

In early summer 2009 there were heavy rains in the Ybbstal at several places between Gstadt and Großhollenstein and at Ybbsitz, and rail operations have been led by buses in rail replacement since then. Voluntary helpers cleared the route without the consent of the ÖBB, ^[13] However, despite the announcement of a ÖBB press spokesman, the railway operations were not resumed. In January 2010, the takeover of several (sometimes already set) side tracks, including the Ybbstalbahn, was announced by the state of Lower Austria. ^[14]

The Bavarian Oberlandbahn expressed interest in taking over the route, but the state of Lower Austria had the purchase offer as completely absurd and No better for traffic quality than the buses Described and rejected. ^[15] After a new search for prospect in September 2010 ^[16] The state of Lower Austria took over the Ybbstalbahn on December 12, 2010. Since then Citybahn Waidhofen operated. ^[17] The sections of Gstadt – Ybbsitz and Gstadt – Lunz am See were discontinued. As a subsequent use of the railway line, the construction of a bike path was up for discussion. A few days before the 2013 Lower Austrian state election, the then governor Erwin Pröll promised to have the option of preserving the valley route again after the election. He believes it is realistic that the operation of the railway together with a newly built bike path for tourism in the YBBSTAL could bring a positive development. ^[18]

On April 15, 2013, the first course Waidhofen a. d. Ybbs -Gstadt and back, because the residents of the railway line were disturbed at the level crossings due to the early morning pipe of the railcar. ^[19]

At the beginning of 2014, the tracks between Gstadt and Göstling were dismantled. The Ybbstal cycle path between Gstadt and Göstling was opened on June 17, 2017. It mainly runs on the former Ybbstalbahn-Trasse. In mid -July to September 2017, the tracks and the platform were removed at Ybbsitz station. The rubble material from the former platforms was also removed. The floor is now flattened and sandy.

In March 2018 it was announced that the Mayor of Waidhofen Werner Krammer (ÖVP) is thinking loudly about the decommissioning of the city railway remaining as a piece of fuselage from Waidhofen to Gstadt. A shortening up to the HTL in Vogelsang is also conceivable. ^[20] With a change of timetable in December 2020, the busy route was shortened from around 5.5 km to just under 3 km (up to a shopping center), since the municipality of Waidhofen wants to use the area in the area of ​​Gstadt as an industrial round. In addition, a half -hourly cycle on the Citybahn was realized. As a result of the shortening of the route, the Kreilhof stop was abandoned. ^[21] The Kupferschmiedgasse stop was put into operation on December 13, 2020. ^[22]

• His graph, Endre Braun (photographer): The Ybbstalbahn. This volume deals with the Waidhofen routes on the Ybbs-Kienberg-Gaming and Gstadt-Ybbsitz . 1st edition, revision 1989. Railway in the picture, Volume 30. Pospischil, Vienna 1989, OBV .
• Sepp Langenecker (ed.), Festival committee “75 years Ybbstalbahn” (ed.): 75 years Ybbstalbahn . Weiss, who in 1973, OBV .
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• Hans Peter Pawlik, Markus Strässle: Narrowly lane through Austria. Current and nostalgic . Verlag Slezak, Vienna 2007.
• Werner Schiendl: The mountain route of the Ybbstalbahn. History of the narrow-gauge railway Lunz am See-Kienberg-Gaming . Extended new edition. Next track documentation, Volume 15. Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 2005, ISBN 3-933613-52-3.
  Earlier under the title:
  With sack and pack of pfaffes. The history of the narrow-gauge railway Kienberg-Gaming-Lunz am See . Side rail documentation, Volume 15. Kenning, Nordhorn 1995, ISBN 3-927587-31-1.
• Werner Schiendl: The Austrian Society for Local Railways . Verlag Kenning, Nordhorn 2005, ISBN 3-933613-53-1.
• Josef Otto Slezak, Hans Sternhart: Renaissance of the narrow -gauge railway in Austria . International Archives for Lokomotive History, Volume 36. Verlag Slezak, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-85416-097-6.
• Dieter Stanfel: Ybbstalbahn. Waidhofen an der Ybbs-Gstadt-Ybbsitz/Kienberg-Gaming . bahmmedia.at, who 2014, ISBN 978-3-9503304-4-1
• Markus Strässle: Schmalspurbahn activities in Austria . International Archives for Lokomotive History, Volume 43. Verlag Slezak, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85416-184-0.
• Ybbstalbahn Development Society (ed.): Vision Ybbstalbahn . Railway-Media-Group, Wien 2011, ISBN 978-3-9503057-5-3.
• 100 years Ybbstalbahn. A narrow -gauge railway celebrates its birthday . ÖBB, Vienna 1998, OBV .
• Günter Kettler, Wolfgang Siegl: The Ybbstalbahn – a photo time travel . Bahmmedia.at, who 2020, ISBN 978-390317177-24-6.

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6. ↑ RGBl. 1894/33. In:  Reichsgesetblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , Born 1894, p. 69 ff. (Online at Anno). Template: Anno/Maintenance/RGB
7. ↑ RGBl. 1894/219. In:  Reichsgesetblatt for the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrath , Born 1894, pp. 617–623. (online at anno). Template: Anno/Maintenance/RGB
8. ↑ Josef Dultinger: 1991: End station Ybbstal. Out of a railway? Word and World Verlag, Thaur near Innsbruck 1991, ISBN 3-85373-124-4.
9. ↑ Welser profiles .
10. ↑ Ybbstalbahn in front of: Green Lower Austria protest. The Greens – Lower Austria, November 27, 2008, archived from Original am December 6, 2008 ; accessed on February 23, 2013 .
11. ↑ Siegfried Nykodem: Fight for the Ybbstalbahn. Lower Austrian regional railway threatened by the attitude . In: Regionale-Schienen.at March 2009, accessed April 27, 2011.
12. ↑ Resistance to the railway ( Memento from May 24, 2009 in Internet Archive ). In: kurier.at , May 4, 2009, accessed September 25, 2013.
13. ↑ Passengers stuffed hole on Desolater narrow -gauge railway . In: nachrichten.at , July 9, 2009, accessed April 26, 2011.
14. ↑ Noe-side railways could be expensive for taxpayers . In: derrandard.at , January 15, 2010, accessed September 25, 2013.
15. ↑ Land rejects purchase offer for Ybbstalbahn . In: derrandard.at , March 27, 2010, accessed September 25, 2013.
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