Trolleybuses in Salzburg

The trolleybus Salzburg, locally often referred to as trolleybus, is next to the trolleybus Linz one of two remaining trolleybus systems in Austria. With eleven lines, 154 stations and around 100 cars Salzburg has to Athens / Piraeus, San Francisco, Seattle and Vancouver, the fifth largest bus network overhead line of the western world. It was founded in 1940 and replaced then the tram Salzburg.

The trolleybus annually transports more than 38 million passengers, is now managed by Salzburg AG, founded in 2000 and is incorporated in the Salzburger Transport Association ( SIA). In addition to the S -Bahn Salzburg, the Obus the backbone of public transport in the city of Salzburg in 1927 recorded dar. urban bus service, however, plays only a minor role and is mainly carried out by Albus Salzburg traffic operation.

Operator

While the tram still from Salzburg railway and Tramwaygesellschaft ( SETG ) was operated on behalf of the city of Salzburg, this took over in 1940 as part of the conversion to trolleybus responsibility themselves. For this purpose they founded the Municipal Transport Company Salzburg, which were initially only responsible for the trolleybus, from 1 October 1948, but also for the local railway lines to slope Enderstein and to Lamprechtshausen. The Municipal Transport Company Salzburg in turn were integrated on 3 July 1950 in the new umbrella company Salzburger Stadtwerke. Also in 1950, the city also took up the local bus service. The exact name of the transport division was now Salzburger Stadtwerke - transport, short SStW -VB - from 1972 then in the short form Salzburg transport, short SVB.

The next restructuring took place in 2000, when the Salzburger Stadtwerke and the Salzburg AG of Electricity Economics (SAFE) banded together to Salzburg AG. Henceforth, the new part operation Salzburg local train for the local railway lines and also the new part operation StadtBus Salzburg for the municipal trolleybus and bus service was responsible. 2005 Albus finally took over all the bus routes from Salzburg AG, since the Salzburg AG one of the few transport companies in the world, indeed operate the trolley buses, but no buses. 2012, the marketing names changed again, the transport division operates since then under uniform Salzburg local railways, the trolleybus is called ObusSLB.

Lines

Currently, the ten Salzburg trolleybus lines run as follows, some lines cross this border town of Salzburg:

The 1986 newly introduced line of 77 was abandoned in favor of the line 2 2003. The newly introduced 1989 amplifier line 95 was also set in 2003.

History

On 1 October 1940, the first trolleybus drove through the streets of Salzburg. He associated the line M - for Maxglan - on the track Sigmund space Maxglan, which is a part of the line is 1 today. Already on 24 October was the extension to Makart Square and on November 10, until Central Station. On December 12, 1941 was also the first coach house in the Zaunergasse in operation.

On 19 February 1942, the link Maxglan - fief -Hauptbahnhof was opened. From then reversed two ring lines, L stood for fief:

• M: Maxglan - fief - Hauptbahnhof- center - Maxglan
• L: Maxglan - center - Hauptbahnhof- fief - Maxglan.

On February 1, 1944, as the third connection line A between Sigmund space and Obergnigl into operation on December 21, 1949 was followed by a fourth connecting line D from the central station in the Alps settlement. The same day, the location of the new route Central Garage Alpine Road was opened. A fifth line B resulted from March 1, 1951 by Sigmund place after delivery ring, a sixth line F - for Cemetery - from 1 November 1956 by Itzling Pflanzmann to the communal cemetery.

2004 extended to the trolleybus line 1 by about 500 meters from the exhibition center to Salzburg Arena. A special feature of the new terminal was initially approached only at events, otherwise remained the ultimate direction in this area off. The status was the trolleybus drivers by means of a light signal displayed.

On 1 October 2005, the line was extended from 1 Euro Park on the football stadium to Kavaliershaus. On 11 December 2005, the extension of line 2 from the central station over the Mirabell Square and the Sterneckstraße went until Obergnigl in operation.

An operating range of the power house road (line 2) on the Fürbergstraße to Fadingerstraße was built in the spring of 2006, and especially during events in the downtown area and used extensively during the UCI Road World Championships 2006. About this route since a move and the trolleybus lines 2 and 4 on and off. This is surrounded for the first time in the Salzburg Obusgeschichte the Capuchin mountain. This section also formed the basis for the later was electrification of the bus line 20,

The intersection Gaswerkgasse / Ignaz -Harrer -Straße, and the area at the main station to the Forum-Kaufhaus/Fanny-von-Lehnert-Straße was provided to September 2006, with additional turning and turning facilities. Also, since the spring of 2007 an operation route from State Hospital (line 7) to Willibald - Hauthaler avenue (line 4), as well as an additional opportunity to turn on Makart Square, in front of Trinity Church, in operation. A new possibility to turn on the Aiglhofkreuzung from line 4 on line 2 was also created in the spring of 2008 as an emergency lane for trolleybuses in Griesgasse in the center. The latter allows stacking and on-demand retrieval of trolleybuses in the center for events. The timetable change on December 7, 2007, line 4 of Langwied was extended beyond the city boundary by Mayrwies, replacing the bus line 4A.

In autumn 2008, the Salzburg local council decided to electrify the road the bus line 20 by Sam / Lanke settlement. The route follows that of the line 20 from the Lanke settlement on the S -Bahn station Salzburg - Gnigl ​​Fuggerstarsse People's Garden, Hanuschplatz to the state hospital; on the Eduard -Baumgartner -Strasse and the Karajan Platz, the line is led to Hanuschplatz and after Sam. This work was completed in mid-2009, from the bus line 20, the trolleybus line was 10

On July 9, 2009, lines 3 and 5 were extended by 500 meters to the new terminus Itzling Pflanzmann. These were the first privately financed Obusstrecke in Salzburg.

Since 25 September 2011, all courses of the line 1 run uniformly up to the Salzburg Arena. The shutdown of the overhead line was omitted.

The timetable change in December 2011, a new line 14 from the stop Schmidinger road at the motorway exit Salzburg-Mitte on the Ignaz -Harrer -Straße was introduced to Saint-Julien-Straße/Rainerstraße. From there she goes - as the line 3 - to Josefiau on. It is an amplifier line that only in the morning rush hour - operated - that is from 7:00 to 9:00 clock clock.

On March 7, 2012, a 1.3 km long extension of Line 10 went into operation. It operates since differently from the previous guidance from the stop Strubergasse by the gas plant gases Strubergasse, Rudolf-Biebl Street and the shoemaker street. Instead of the previous terminus School fief she now serves alternately the terminals Salzburg Arena or Bessarabierstraße. Thus, the connection of the municipal utility area and the New Center fief was improved with the city library.

With the timetable change on 9 December 2012, the routing of the lines was changed 8 and 10 from Hanuschplatz. So today instead of driving the line 8, line 10 to the outlet stores in the kingdom of heaven, and the line 8 on the New Center fief to Messe / Arena or during the week for Bessarabierstraße. With the opening of the newly built Nelböckviadukts on December 20, 2012, the line was introduced 12. This runs 6-9 clock in the morning and 15 to 19 clock in the afternoon to stop by the Josefiau on folk garden, Sterneckstraße by the Nelböckviadukt to the state hospital, or in the afternoon Euro Park.

Planning

By 2015, the city of Salzburg would like to invest around 2.2 million euros for the two expansion projects. For quite some time in conversation is an extension of line 4 to Eugen village or the German Freilassing.

Also debated an extension of Line 5 from the current terminus Birkensiedlung to Grödig.

The Chairman of the Salzburg AG in 2013, recommended the abolition of the trolleybuses in Salzburg.

Rolling stock

Procurements over the years

Oldest car of the current inventory are the 20 high-floor Graf & Stift articulated cars of model years 1988 to 1994, except for cars 219 and 220 they all have a three-phase motor. Originally, this series included 36 vehicles to be retired gradually since 2002. Of these, 35 were produced for Salzburg, was acquired during carriage 220 used from trolleybus Kapfenberg.

The first low-floor cars are the 23 MAN articulated cars built between 1994 until 1997. One of them, the carriage 240, there is also a used car from Kapfenberg.

The generation of vehicles manufactured since 2000, Van Hool offers only low-floor entrances, 13 of the 32 Van Hool cars have also, as a novelty for Salzburg, about a diesel-powered auxiliary drive. November 24, 2008 also two more Van Hool articulated cars came from the hand trolley Vevey Villeneuve from Switzerland in the stock of the Salzburg trolleybus. This is the 1995 -built cars 2 and 15, they were put into service after a work-up with the new road numbers 259 and 260. They were also, as the rolling stock of the company, in a dark red finish.

From the latest generation of vehicles Trollino Solaris 18, the first three cars September 14, 2009 have been delivered. The twelve other vehicles 304-315 followed in 2010 and 2011. The new cars are also painted dark red and in turn have an auxiliary drive. 301 cars was there on loan for presentation purposes in February 2010 to the trolleybus Eberswalde.

In May 2012, the delivery of the so-called Metro Style trolleybuses Solaris started, these are externally modeled on a tram. For 2017 procurement of double joint van was provided, but the financing is still unclear. The MAN NGT 204 M 16 to be overhauled in 2013. It is planned along with new upholstery and a new paint and a general renovation of the electrical system and modernization of the operator.

There are now other than 220 trolleybus no Hochflurobus who has a mileage less than one million kilometers. Trolleybus 232 (MAN- 204 NGT M16) since February 2013, the first Niederflurobus with one million kilometers.

Table former vehicles

A portion of the modeled in Salzburg car was given to other companies. They went to the former trolleybus Kapfenberg and to Germany ( Eberswalde trolleybus ), Lithuania ( Vilnius), Romania ( Medias and trolleybus Timişoara), Russia ( Perm and Rybinsk ) and Serbia ( Belgrade trolleybus ).

By 1975, the trolleybuses also wrong with trailers. Salzburg was the last Austrian trolleybus network in which this form of operation was encountered. There were four different series available, they were from Graf & Stift (type OA I) Kässbohrer (without model designation ), Lohner ( OM 5/1) and Schumann ( without model designation ).

Table of current inventory

Specifications current inventory

= Relative to the car with auxiliary power unit = relative to the DC version

Salzburg trolleybus per eV and museum cars

The oldest operable trolleybus in Salzburg is a ÜHIIIs the year of construction 1957. However, this is not a Salzburg original vehicle, the car with the number 123 comes from Solingen trolleybus ( former number 40) and is on loan English collector. In Salzburg he is since July 2007, as part of special trips in use, this he wears Salzburg livery. The vehicle can also be privately chartered. At the Salzburg Festival, the ÜHIIIs by the end of July every Friday regularly e on a special museum line of the Pro Salzburg trolleybus until the end of August V. in use.

The former Kapfenberg carriage 35 of the type HS 160 OSL -G, this never ran as scheduled in Salzburg, Salzburg trolleybus currently e Pro V. is worked up. The vehicle is on loan from the association nostalgia tracks in Carinthia and should get the car number 134 for future use in Salzburg.

The other two operational museum vehicles with the numbers 109 and 178 are still used in rush hours in scheduled passenger service. This serves on the one hand to avoid damage while, on the other hand demand peaks can be better covered.

In addition, the Kässbohrer trailer number 31 is from the year 1940 in the work-up by the club.