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Tag Archives: Austria
Vienna’s Frankenstein low floor test tram
Vienna was an early adopter of low floor trams on their network, so much design and development work was required before a wider rollout. And one part of this program was a ‘Frankenstein’ tram that combined a low floor test […]
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Tagged Austria, low floor trams, prototypes, train testing, Vienna, Wiener Linien
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Crazy tram junctions of Innsbruck
Innsbruck is one of many Austrian cities with tramways, but the network has one interesting feature – exceedingly complicated junctions. Photo by trams aux fils., via Wikimedia Commons Peerhofsiedlung terminus has a interleaved scissors crossover on a curve. Google Street […]
Underground trams in Vienna
Like many cities the Austrian capital of Vienna has both a Straßenbahn (tram) system alongside their underground U-Bahn rail system, but it also has something in between – the untergrundstrassenbahn or “underground tramways”. Under the beltway The first section of […]
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Tagged Austria, premetro, tram stops, underground, underground trams, Vienna
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ÖBB switching from left to right hand running across Austria
Trains switching between left and right hand running has been a theme on this blog for some time, and here is one example I’d missed – Austria. When I visited Austria I only found trains running on the right hand […]
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Tagged Austria, left hand running, ÖBB, rail operations, right hand running, Vienna
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Underground archaeology at the metro station
During my visit to Vienna, I found something interesting when passing through the U-Bahn station of Stephansplatz – a window into an underground crypt. The Vergilius Chapel (German: Virgilkapelle) dated back to the early 13th century, with the Magdalene Chapel […]
Mobile traction substations for powering trains and trams
The power for an electric railway has to come from somewhere – and that place is a traction substation, a facility that convert hogh voltage electricity from the power grid to the voltage and frequency that trains or trams use. […]
Crossing international borders by train
When I travelled across Europe by train, I crossed a few international borders. Some were simple, but others were more involved. The uneventful My first border crossing by train was on my journey from Germany and Austria, and it was […]
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Tagged Austria, border crossings, Căile Ferate Române, Deutsche Bahn, Germany, Hungary, Kiev, rail operations, railways, Romania, Russia
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Switching from right to left on the Wiener Straßenbahn
Trams on the Wiener Straßenbahn run on the right hand side just like every other road vehicle in Austria, but there is one exception – the elevated tracks of line 26. Opened in 2013, the 4.7 kilometre long extension of […]
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Tagged Austria, left hand running, light rail, premetro, rail operations, right hand running, tram stops, Vienna
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‘Do Re Mi’ music as the train powers out of the station
It’s normal for electric locomotives to make some kind of ‘buzzing’ noise as their accelerate, due to the way that power is applied to their traction motors. But the Siemens EuroSprinter family of electric locomotives make an unexpected sound – […]
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Tagged Austria, Deutsche Bahn, Germany, locomotives, ÖBB, railway electrification, railways
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Freight trams of Europe
Trams are usually used to carry passengers, but across Europe there are a handful of tramway networks that also carry freight. Pure freight The best known in the English speaking world is the ‘CarGoTram‘ of Dresden, Germany. Photo by kaffeeeinstein, […]
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Tagged Austria, Berlin, Dresden, Frankfurt, freight trains, Germany, Kharkiv, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, rail freight, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Switzerland, Tula, Ukraine, Vienna, Zurich
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