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Austrian Travel Wonderland By WJK Davies W/ dust jacket
Austrian Travel Wonderland by WJK Davies
Austrian Travel Wonderland
WJK Davies
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
125 pages
Copyright 1974
Contents
Preface 7
1 Historical Bad ground. 9
2 The Osterreichische Bundesbahnen 13
The OBB today 13
Infrastructure 15
Locomotives and railcars 16
Operation and signalling 19
Traffic flows 20
Other activities 21
3Secondary Transport by Rail 22
The OBB narrow gauge lines 24
Verkehrsbetriebe Stern and Hafferl AG 26
Steiermiirkische Landesbahnen 29
Graz-Koflacher Eisenbahn 34
Innsbrucker Verkehrsbetriebe AG 34
Montafonerbahn 35
Raab-Odenburg-Ebenfurter Eisenbahn 36
Salzburger Stadtwerke Verkehrsbetriebe 36
St Poltener Strassenbahn AG 36
AG Wiener Lokalbahn 37
Zillertalbahn 37
Tramways 38
4Ways up the Mountains 42
Rack railways 48
Funicular railways 49
5 Secondary transport by Land and Water 51
6Austrian Transport Geography 60
7The Western Arm 6 6
Vorarlberg and the Arlberg route 66
Innsbruck and its surroundings 69
Innsbruck - Schwarzach St Veit - Salzburg 72
8 Into Upper Austria and on to Vienna 76
Salzburg - Linz 76
Linz and district 81
Linz- Vienna 84
9 Around Vienna 87
10 Mostly Styria 92
Over the Semmering to Graz 92
Graz and south Styria 95
11Into and out of Carinthia 99
Graz - Klagenfurt 99
Villach and the Tauern route 102
12Making the most of Austria 107 Getting to and from Austria 107 Travelling in Austria 109
Notes 111
Appendices
1 OBB motive power 113
2 OBB general statistics 118
3Stocklist of Private Rail Companies 120
Bibliography 125
This book then is designed to fulfil a dual purpose. The first part is a brief, but I hope informative, technical description of all aspects of public transport - the Federal Railways (OBB); the minor railways and buses; mountain railways; buses and ships. The second part is a tour of the country by public transport which attempts to convey the beauty of the different landscapes and regional feelings of the nine provinces. The unreadable but useful statistics may be found in appendices and I have tried to provide helpful hints to new travellers.
Lastly I would like to thank all those who have helped, especially Herrn Karner and Hess of the OBB's press department, Direktor Zaiiher of the Steiermarkische Landesbahnen and his local staffs, the managements of Stern and Hafferl, the Zillertalbahn, the Graz-Koflather Eisenbahn, the DDSG and the Austrian Post Office.
Preface
When I was asked to produce this book as a companion to Cecil J. Allen's monumental work on Swiss transport my first reaction was one of considerable doubt. Besides Switzerland Austria is, after all, a comparatively poor coutry and a thinly peopled one: hence her transport net is comparatively thin and may well become even thinner. Moreover, to most dedicated travel enthusiasts Austria means simply the Arlberg route and Tirol, Vienna trams and the Vordernberg rack railway, the Semmering and a sprinkling of touristy minor railways. However pleasant they might be, there wasn't a book in just that.
Once I got down to the task, however, I realised how intriguingly varied the Austrian transport system is. Thanks mainly to the kindess and co-operation of the various transport authorities and companies I was able to study the network in some detail and introduce myself to many pleasurable routes I had previously ignored. If inevitably, as in all Alpine countries, major wonders have to be qualified as "exceptional outside Switzerland", the country nevertheless has much to offer the interested traveller. Plenty of the railway routes are splendidly scenic; the country's slender wealth has preserved a certain quaintness in her secondary railways; and the internal road passes and new Autobahnen are the equals of similar works anywhere else.
This book then is designed to fulfil a dual purpose. The first part is a brief, but I hope informative, technical description of all aspects of public transport - the Federal Railways (OBB); the minor railways and buses; mountain railways; buses and ships. The second part is a tour of the country by public transport which attempts to convey the beauty of the different landscapes and regional feelings of the nine provinces. The unreadable but useful statistics may be found in appendices and I have tried to provide helpful hints to new travellers.
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