Salzburg-Tyrol Railway
47.491708612.0609984Koordinaten: 47 ° 29 '30 " N, 12 ° 3' 40" E
The Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn is a major railway in Austria. Leads you into the provinces of Salzburg and Tyrol from Salzburg to Wörgl and part of the core network of the Austrian Federal Railways ( ÖBB).
The track is expanded through two tracks and is in the way working, usually track right, drive on. The entire route is electrified and is operated at 15,000 volts AC and a frequency of 16.7 Hz.
In particular, the section of Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Schwarzach -St. Veit was - the route massively expanded and realigned in places - in the context of the Tauern Railway and the construction of the S -Bahn Salzburg.
Name
It is designated (or was ) also known as Giselabahn ( after the second daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth of Austria - Hungary, Archduchess Gisela Louise Marie of Austria ). Today, she is often seen as part of the Western Railway; mean the part Westbf Vienna -Linz -Salzburg- Zell am See- Wörgl is also known as Empress Elisabeth Railway, the route part of Zell am See- Wörgl beyond the Brixen Valley Railway.
History
Based on the Concessionsurkunde of 10 November 1872 for the Actiengesellschaft the privileged Empress Elisabeth train for the construction and operation of a leading from Upper Styria to Salzburg and Tyrol Locomotiv North Railroad, the Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn was built from 1873 to 1875. It runs from Salzburg via Hallein, Bischofshofen, St. Johann im Pongau, Schwarzach -St. Veit, Zell am See, Hochfilzen, St. Johann in Tyrol, Kitzbuhel to Wörgl.
The standard gauge track runs through the Salzach Valley, in particular the Bischofshofen railway station is due to the turnoff to the Enns Valley Railway significant. In Wörgl the Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn meets the railway line from Munich to Innsbruck or Salzburg -Innsbruck - Deutsches Eck.
In 1905, the north ramp of the Tauern Railway between Schwarzach -St. Veit, which is located on the Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn, and Bad Gastein opened in 1909 Tauernbahn including Tauernschleuse was completed to Villach.
1915, the Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn was expanded to double track. In 1925 started the electrification of the line, which was completely finished in 1930.
Towards the end of the Second World War, the Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn was its strategic importance target of Allied bombing attacks on ground.
The Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn is the only east-west rail line, which runs exclusively on Austrian territory. Especially the fact that no motorway connection between the provinces of Salzburg and Tirol is on Austrian territory, the track gave great importance. Since Austria's EU accession in 1995 its importance, however, is increasingly on the wane, also because, due to their characteristics as Alpenbahn no high speeds are possible. The ÖBB preferably uses therefore long distance route from Salzburg to Innsbruck via Rosenheim about the ( Great) German Eck.
The significance of the route particularly in regional transport, as part of the connection from Innsbruck to Klagenfurt and Graz as well as part of the line from Salzburg to Graz via the Enns Valley Railway. In Kitzbühel at the Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn and Austria's only bus service from North Tyrol East Tyrol begins. A certain degree of significance of the route as a backup route for international rail traffic on the east-west axis, but it is more important than access route for the Tauern railway in the north-south Alpine crossing. Also in the night train traffic, the Salzburg -Tiroler -Bahn is being used. The night train from Bregenz to Vienna continued until December 2008 here in order to achieve travel times, which can lead to adequate recovery in sleeping cars and to save rail toll on the German train for use of the Great German gon. A great importance is the train track to by mass transit in central Salzburg. Between Salzburg Hbf and Golling -Abtenau the route every half hour and Golling is traveled to Schwarzach every hour of the S3 S-Bahn Salzburg.
The last level crossing in Tyrol's Brixen Valley is since April 29, 2011 History. The last DISCLAIMER OF railroad crossing was replaced by an underpass. From Roppen in the Upper Inn Valley to Kitzbühel, there is now no level same railway crossing more.
Pictures
Freight train with 1110 524-4 in Zell am See
At St. Johann im Pongau
Route at the Salzachöfen