these engines are still on display at the Südbahn Museum, which opened in 2004. Two listed railway sheds and the historic roundhouse tell the story of the Südbahn from its earliest designs to the present [...] From Vienna to Trieste in 13 hours and 4 minutes - in 1857, when the last track of the Südbahn was laid, this was considered a sensation. Until then, crossing the Alps had been a challenging and time-consuming

tank locomotive of 1908 which worked on the Erzbergbahn. Vordernberg was linked with Eisenerz by an early railway with inclined planes, the Vordernberger Förderbahn, of which archaeological evidence can still [...] still be seen. The line was replaced in 1891 by the Erzbergbahn, a standard gauge rack railway on which steam traction was employed until 1981. The line is no longer used for carrying iron ore and regular [...] the track and the railcars that use it have been owned by a voluntary organisation, the Verein Erzbergbahn, which operates trains for visitors in the summer months. A huge 2-12-2T tank locomotive built

thousand examples were built, as well as passenger stock for the Vienna Stadtbahn, powerful rack locomotives for the Erzbergbahn and narrow gauge locomotives for mountain railways. Examples of his most [...] Viennese who was trained in Chemnitz and Dresden, and became chief mechanical engineer of the Austrian Sudbahn. Karl Golsdorf was born at Semmering, studied at the Technical University of Vienna, and spent some

Karl Ritter von Ghega was engineer of the Semmeringbahn (the Semmering railway), generally regarded as the first main line railway to pass through a region of high mountains, which was designated a UNESCO [...] served as a resident engineer on one of the Empire’s first strategic routes, the Emperor Ferdinand Nordbahn between Brno and Břechla (Lundenburg). In 1836-37 he studied railways in England and other countries [...] Empire’s railways he went to examine railways in the United States. On his return he began to plan the Sudbahn, the route linking Vienna to Graz and Ljubljana (Leibach) and ultimately to Trieste, the Empire’s

railway from Vienna to Raaber, a private concern built in 1840-46, which was later known as the Ostbahn and extended to Budapest. From 1840 until 1882 Haswell managed the Locomotivfabrik der StEG, which [...] steam locomotives in the Habsburg Empire. In 1855 it was taken over by state railway, Staats-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, and he became concerned with supplying locomotives for the Semmering line amongst other

Lódź Verkehrsgeschichte auf den Punkt gebracht. Das Eisenbahnmuseum von Schlesien in Jaworzyna Śląska Eisenbahn überwindet erstmals die Alpen. Das Südbahn Museum in Mürzzuschlag [...] achieve this, it broke new ground by enabling rail vehicles to cross the Alps for the first time. The Südbahn Museum pays tribute to this remarkable feat. It is located at Mürzzuschlag station, once the base

Augsburg, in which Maffei invested. It became part of the state railway, Königlische Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahn from 1846, and was extended to Ulm in 1854. The company also built steam ships, the first of [...] compound locomotive No 3634 of class S3/6 of the Bavarian State Railways, later 18.451 of Deutsches Bundesbahn. It was built in 1912 and was one of 159 of a class built between 1908 and 1931, worked all over

requiring a second track to be installed in 1913. In 1920 the railway became part of Deutsche Reichsbahn but it was transferred back to a separate company in 1996. The route climbs for over 100m. It still [...] Maschinenfabrik, vormals Richard Hartmann in Chemnitz in 1908. Others were built for Deutsche Reichsbahn. The railway offers a wide range of mountain excursions for different interests.

railway through the Semmering Pass between Gloggnitz and Murzzuschlag built in 1848-54 was part of the Sudbahn, the railway that linked Vienna, capital of the Habsburg Empire, with the principal imperial port [...] of hotels and other facilities built for visitors. The most imposing of the hotels is the Sudbahnhotel-Semmering on the slope of Kartnerhogel, 2 km north of Semmering station.

cantonal council. From the 1870s he was increasing involved with railways particularly with the Nord-ost Bahn (NOB, north-eastern railway) and in 1894 with the help of a group of supporters dismissed the management [...] management and board of the company and became its President. He was known subsequently as the Eisenbahnkönig (railway king). The company’s workers went on strike in 1897 when Adolf’ Guyer-Zeller’s harsh [...] services until 1972. That section is now operated as a steam railway by the Zürcher Oberland Dampfbahnverein. The station at Neuthal enables passengers to visit the Museum-Spinnerei (Spinning Factory Museum)

to Gloggnitz railway. In 1856 he became director of the western line from Vienna, the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn (Empress Elisabeth Railway) from Vienna to Salzburg. The Elisabeth railway took over the hor

Salomon Mayer Rothschild and a joint stock company he provided the rationale for the Kaiser Ferdinands-Nordbahn (KFNB) from Vienna to North Moravia and Silesia that enabled official approval and financial

south of Austria. It is one of a network of heritage projects by the non-profit organisation Die Nostalgiebahnen in Kärnten (Nostalgia Railways of Corinthia). The many exhibits are housed in an open-plan exhibition

Basque Railway Museum ERIH article in 'Industriekultur': "Von Dampfloks bis zu Bahnhofsuhren. Das Baskische Eisenbahnmuseum in Azpeitia" ERIH article in 'Industriekultur': "Eisen machte einst die Wirtschaft

need for double tracks. It was made by Niklaus Riggenbach of the Internationalen Gesellschaft für Bergbahnen (International Mountain Railway Company) at Aarau. About 40 passengers at a time are lifted 98m

steam, diesel and electricity, shunting engines, passenger cars, freight wagons labelled "Deutsche Reichsbahn Königszelt" - the rolling stock owned by the Railway Museum in Silesia is as manifold as numerous

workshop, covering about 35,000 square meters, was built in 1906 by the Königlich-Bayerische Staatseisenbahnen (Royal Bavarian State Railways). Today the whole complex is listed. The restoration of the buildings

gradual emergence of Alpine tourism. Starting in 1872, trains of the Austrian railway “k.k. priv. Vorarlberger-Bahn” traversed the country, and a station was built in the capital city of Schaan-Vaduz – although

from Vienna to Prague via Brünn, with a branch to Galicia. The Südbahn, or "Southern Line", ran via Laibach to Trieste; the Semmeringbahn, Europe’s first mountain railway, formed one section of this. The

Katharine became leading shareholders to build the pioneering Rhineland railway (the Rheinische Eisenbahngesellschaft). In 1834, Catherine Englerth moved the mining property into an innovative joint-stock company