100 Jahre Tauernbahn Südrampe / 100 Years Tauernbahn Southern Ramp

5th July 2009

Like another collection in these Galleries, this collection deals with the Centenary celebrations of the opening of the Tauernbahn. The southern ramp opened to traffic on 5 July 1909 and exactly 100 years later we travelled on a special train (Sonderzug) formed of a new RailJet set of coaches pushed by a class 1116 "Taurus" locomotive, 1116 212. Although the destination was given as Pusarnitz the train in fact continued to Spittal-Millstättersee, so that passengers could disembark from the RailJet train if they wished and travel back up the Tauernbahn behind a former DRG class E18, later ÖBB 1020.018-8 and a rake of Nostalie coaches. For most of the route from Pusarnitz onward the RailJet kept parallel with the class 1020 on the other line, stopping only briefly below Kolbnitz because reconstruction work had temporarily reduced the formation to single track. After pausing at Mallnitz-Obervellach both trains continued, in parallel through the 8.7km-long Tauern Tunnel as far as Böckstein. The RailJet contined to Badgastein before reversing, and the 1020 ran round its' train in Böckstein station before returning to Mallnitz.
After speeches and other entertainment we caught the RailJet back to Bischofshofen.

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