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The first railway in Austria was the narrow-gauge line from Gmunden in the Salzkammergut to Budweis, now in the Czech Republic, this was 1,106 mm (3 ft 7+1⁄2 in) gauge. Some two dozen lines were built in 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) gauge, a few in 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge gauge. The first was the Steyrtalbahn. Others were built by provincial governments, some lines are still in common carrier use and a number of others are preservation projects. The tramway network in Innsbruck is also metre gauge; in Linz the rather unusual gauge of 900 mm (2 ft 11+7⁄16 in) is in use.

384 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge gauge; 88 km 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) gauge (2008) ^[1]

Metre-gauge railways

Achenseebahn, 6.78 km, steam engine.
Lokalbahn Vöcklamarkt–Attersee, 15.3 km and electrified.
Schafbergbahn,a cog railway, 5.85 km, steam engine.
Schneebergbahn, a cog railway, 9.85km
Stubaitalbahn, 18.2 km, now trams in Innsbruck Linie STB, Fulpmes-Innsbruck Hbf, electrified
Innsbrucker Mittelgebirgsbahn, 8.4 km and electrified. Now became trams in Innsbruck Linie 6, electrified.
Traunseebahn 14.9km, connects to the Gmunden tramway, electrified.
Lokalbahn Mödling–Hinterbrühl, 4.5 km, closed in 1932. It was the first electrified railway in Austria.
Straßenbahn Unterach–See am Mondsee, 3.26 km, closed in 1949.
Lokalbahn Innsbruck–Hall in Tirol, 11.8 km, closed in 1974.

900mm gauge railways

The Florianerbahn is a museum tramway in Upper Austria.
The Trams in Linz are electrified, operating at 600 V C, opened in 1913 and extended in 2009 when the Pöstlingbergbahn was integrated with the tramway after gauge conversion from metre gauge.

760mm gauge railways

Bregenzerwaldbahn 35.3 km, steam engine
Feistritztalbahn in Steiermark, 42.2 km, steam engine
Höllentalbahn, 5 km
Lokalbahn Ober-Grafendorf–Gresten in Lower Austria, 62.3 km, a branch of Mariazellerbahn.
Lokalbahn Mixnitz–Sankt Erhard in Steiermark, 10.7 km, electrified.
Mariazellerbahn, from Sankt Pölten to Mariazell, 85 km electrified.
Murtalbahn, 76.1 km, steam engine
Pinzgauer Lokalbahn, from Zell am See to Krimml, 52.6 km
Stainzerbahn in Steiermark, 11.3 km, steam engine.
Steyrtalbahn, from Garsten to Klaus, 19.2 km, steam engine
Taurachbahn, a museum railway.
Thörlerbahn, from Kapfenberg to Au-Seewiesen in Styria, 22.7 km, diesel engine, closed in 1999.
Vellachtalbahn in Kärnten, 17.5 km
Waldviertler Schmalspurbahnen in Lower Austria, 82 km, steam engine.
Ybbstalbahn, 76.6 km, steam engine.
Zillertalbahn, from Jenbach to Mayrhofen, 33.1 km, locomotive.
numerous logging railways build from surplus military equipment after 1918, no longer in operation.

750mm gauge railway

Dienstbahn der Internationalen Rheinregulierung, 25 km. Common freight carrier and partly a heritage railway

600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) railway lines

Museumsfeldbahn Großgmain [de]; 1.7 km, operating
Feistritzwaldbahn [de]; 22 km, defunct
Kleinbahn Neusiedl am See [de]; 1.5 km, defunct
Reißeck-Höhenbahn [de], 3.3 km, defunct
Schwertberger Kaolinzug [de]; 3.8 km, defunct
Waldbahn Haselbach [de]; 2.5 km, defunct
Waldbahn Naßwald [de]; 2 km, a defunct heritage railway

500 mm (19+3⁄4 in) railway lines

Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald Feldbahn

References

Notes

^ CIA World Fact Book

Bibliography

Organ, John (2003). Austrian Narrow Gauge: featuring steam in the Alps. Narrow Gauge Branch Lines series. Midhurst, West Sussex, UK: Middleton Press. ISBN 1904474047.
Organ, John (2012). Northern Alpine Narrow Gauge: Interlaken to Puchberg. Narrow Gauge Branch Lines series. Midhurst, West Sussex, UK: Middleton Press. ISBN 9781908174376.

External links

Media related to Narrow gauge railways in Austria at Wikimedia Commons

[1] CIA World Fact Book

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