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3. Traun River in Wels – Trodatsteg loop from Wels Hauptbahnhof

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Main station ÖBB, Wels

Wels Central Station is a transport hub in Upper Austria. It is the starting point of the Wels–Passau railway to Passau Hauptbahnhof and the Almtalbahn to Grünau im Almtal, which branch off from the Westbahn here.

As part of the “Bahnhofsoffensive”, the Wels main station was completely rebuilt and opened for use at the end of 2005.

On April 1, 1835, the horse-drawn railway from Budweis to Gmunden was opened, running through Wels. In addition to transporting people, it also transported salt from the Salzkammergut, which was shipped from Linz or transported on to Bohemia. The narrow-gauge horse-drawn railway ran directly through the city center in Wels (Kaiser Josef Platz, Dragonerstrasse). From 1855 the horses on this route were replaced by steam locomotives and then ran between Gmunden and Linz. The northern branch of the horse-drawn railway was not suitable for the locomotives because of the routing. In 1859/1860 the standard-gauge Western Railway from Vienna to Salzburg was opened, making the old line obsolete. The railway now ran north of Wels, the station building was moved to its current location and consisted of an elongated central wing with corner pavilions at both ends. The station was built in the Romantic style. At that time there were only four traffic tracks. When the Passau railway was planned, the decision was made not to choose Linz for the branch point of this branch of the western railway, but rather Wels. This decision made the Wels train station an important railway network node. The Passau railway was completed as early as 1861 (initially single track).

In 1886, the Wels local railway company built the railway to Aschach, whose track to Haiding lay next to that of the Passau railway. In 1893 another branch line was built by the same company, this time to the south, which later became the Almtalbahn. It was routed via Sattledt and Kremsmünster to Rohr, where the line met the then competing Pyhrnbahn. In 1901 a branch line was built from Sattledt to Grünau im Almtal, the actual Almtalbahn. The original route to Rohr, on which trains from Wels were even connected to Bad Hall, had to be discontinued in 1965 due to unprofitability.

Due to the heavy traffic, the station had to be enlarged. After the First World War there were already plans for improvements. The Deutsche Reichsbahn carried out the double-track expansion of the Passau railway, which was completed in autumn 1938. The trains of the Aschacher Bahn continued to run from/to Wels and now also used the respective track of the main line. The shunting station was opened east of the main station in Pernau, and the train haulage was also moved there from the north-west of the main station.

In 1937 the station was rebuilt. During World War II, the station suffered heavy air raids. After reconstruction in 1945, the building got a new look. In 1951, the station, including all side tracks, was electrified from the west. The island platforms with underpass were not added until 1959. There was an iron bridge over the station connecting Wels with the Neustadt district, which was replaced by an underpass (Grieskirchner Straße) in the same year.

Text/Source: Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wels_Hauptbahnhof#:~:text=1859%2F1860%20became%20the%20standard gauge line,with%20corner pavilions%20at%20both%20ends.

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1. Traun River in Wels – Trodatsteg loop from Wels Hauptbahnhof

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