Schafberg Railway

The Sheep Mountain Railway is a narrow gauge rack railway in Austria. It runs from St. Wolfgang am Wolfgangsee up to the sheep mountain ( 1782 m).

History

The first projects for this track appeared simultaneously with those for the Kahlenberg on track, and on August 10, 1872 received Berthold Currant and Carl Peusens a concession, but could not be utilized due to the financial crisis of 1873. On 13 January 1890, the track was licensed again, and after this deed supplemental promulgation of the Department of Commerce from July 29, 1892 opened the Salzkammergut Local Railway Actiengesellschaft on 1 August 1893, designed as a rack railway Localbahn.

As the cog railway to the Sheep Mountain in every respect as an integral constituent of [ ... ] the Salzkammergut Local railways is to be treated, the Company was in the aforementioned by-laws committed simultaneously with the Build the Schafbergbahn also those of the links Strobl - Mondsee and Ischl Local Train Station - start state station.

According to financial difficulties the sheep mountain railway in 1932 was sold to the Austrian Tourist Office. In 1938 she went to the German Reichsbahn and thus after the Second World War, ÖBB. Since 2006, operates the Salzkammergutbahn GmbH ( SKGB ), a subsidiary of Salzburg AG, the Sheep Mountain Railway and the WolfgangseeSchifffahrt.

On 17 March 2006, the contracts for the sale of sheep mountain railway to Salzburg AG were prepared. The Sheep Mountain Railway operates since taking cue from the original owner Salzkammergut Local Railway ( SKGLB ) as Salzkammergutbahn GmbH.

Technology and vehicles

The train is equipped with a rack system according to Abbot and overcomes at a maximum gradient of 25.5% a difference in altitude of 1190 meters. The drive is provided exclusively on the gears, thus also in the plane of the track systems are provided with a toothed rack.

The route is not electrified and is navigated by steam locomotives. The brunt of the traffic wear today from the four 1992 -built oil-fired steam locomotives new - Z 11 to Z 14 (originally Series 999.2 ), which are very similar to the H 2 /3 of the Brienz -Rothorn Railway. The DMUs VTZ VTZ 21 and 22 (built in 1964) are kept in reserve to operate. The permanently leased from the NÖSBB diesel -electric locomotive VZ 31 is used in heavy rush with a train. The original historical machines (built in 1893 and 1894) the number SKGLB Z come in the wake of its own nostalgia timetable for use.

Steam locomotive number 999 in the boiler house still with name board of ÖBB

Both railcars of class 5099 in old paint

Sheep mountain railway on the way to the summit ( 2008)

Journey by train (Video 2008)