Narrow-gauge railways in Austria

The first railway in Austria was the narrow-gauge line from Gmunden in the Salzkammergut to Budweis, now in the Czech Republic, this was gauge. Some two dozen lines were built in gauge, a few in 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 is in use.

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Metre-gauge railways

• Achenseebahn, , steam engine.
• Lokalbahn Vöcklamarkt–Attersee, and electrified.
• Schafbergbahn,a cog railway, , steam engine.
• Schneebergbahn, a cog railway,
• Stubaitalbahn, , now trams in Innsbruck Linie STB, Fulpmes-Innsbruck Hbf, electrified
• Innsbrucker Mittelgebirgsbahn, and electrified. Now became trams in Innsbruck Linie 6, electrified.
• Traunseebahn , connects to the Gmunden tramway, electrified.
• Lokalbahn Mödling–Hinterbrühl, , closed in 1932. It was the first electrified railway in Austria.
• Straßenbahn Unterach–See am Mondsee, , closed in 1949.
• Lokalbahn Innsbruck–Hall in Tirol, , 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 , steam engine
• Feistritztalbahn in Steiermark, , steam engine
• Höllentalbahn,
• Lokalbahn Ober-Grafendorf–Gresten in Lower Austria, , a branch of Mariazellerbahn.
• Lokalbahn Mixnitz–Sankt Erhard in Steiermark, , electrified.
• Mariazellerbahn, from Sankt Pölten to Mariazell, electrified.
• Murtalbahn, , steam engine
• Pinzgauer Lokalbahn, from Zell am See to Krimml,
• Stainzerbahn in Steiermark, , steam engine.
• Steyrtalbahn, from Garsten to Klaus, , steam engine
• Taurachbahn, a museum railway.
• Thörlerbahn, from Kapfenberg to Au-Seewiesen in Styria, , diesel engine, closed in 1999.
• Vellachtalbahn in Kärnten,
• Waldviertler Schmalspurbahnen in Lower Austria, , steam engine.
• Ybbstalbahn, , steam engine.
• Zillertalbahn, from Jenbach to Mayrhofen, , locomotive.
• numerous logging railways build from surplus military equipment after 1918, no longer in operation.

750mm gauge railway

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

railway lines

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• Reisseck Mountain Railway

railway lines

• Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald Feldbahn

See also

• Feldbahn
• History of rail transport in Austria
• Jernbach Werke
• List of rack railways
• Mountain railway
• Rail transport in Austria

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