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Updating template map of Western Rly, Austria (Oct 2016) - First half

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I've updated the template map used by English page article Western Railway (Austria). The map originates at Template:Western Railway (Austria).

Updated using German article version at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbahn (Österreich) as the German hardcoded map is more up-to date than the English template which is unrevised since 2009 and badly out of date for details of the "new Western Railway" improvements. Also used http://www.oebb.at/infrastruktur/en/Servicebox/Brochures_and_Folders/2009_04_Wien_-_St._Poelten_englisch.pdf as information source for improving some old/new line references.

  • Removed duplicates of 41.461 Ollersbach, 43.558 Kirchstetten and 49.076 Böheimkirchen.
  • Corrected 49.846 Tullnerfeld 4 crossover and Sieberg Tunnel positions.
  • Then amended or added lines as per the German version.
  • Also added Wienerwald Tunnel west portal kilometrage and moved its position (shortening its length on the map).

Revision tested and fully checked here. All shows okay for the first half, ie. lines 0.000 Vienna West through to 107.137 Ybbs an der Donau.

Updating template map of Western Rly, Austria (Oct 2016) - Second half

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SECOND HALF of MAP (lower down), revised using German article version at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbahn (Österreich), as more up-to date than the English template unrevised since 2009.

Tested and checked here as a separate second "BS-map" of 110.887 Neumarkt an der Ybbs-Karlsbach to Salzburg Hbf. But hit a problem with both BS-maps on the same page. Kept getting a resulting "Warning: Template include size is too large. Some templates will not be included.". So I shortened the overall text size by using the abbreviated "ÖPNV Wien" template instead of the default "Public transport Vienna" template (and similarly changed "Public transport Vienna" to "ÖPNV Wien" usage). But still too big, over the limit when attempting to include the last 4 lines ("Salzburg-Tyrol Railway from Wörgl" to "0.000 Salzburg Bhf"). Therefore I can only test that the whole revised BS-map will display okay (ie. is below the template include size limit) by now deleting the "first half" and "second half", and testing all lines together as a single BS-map (ie. text size will be reduced because I won't be duplicating the BS-map header line).

Updating template map of Western Rly, Austria (Oct 2016) - The whole map

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WHOLE MAP (lower down), revised using German article version at https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westbahn (Österreich), as more up-to date than the English template unrevised since 2009.

Result is still "all bar last 4 lines" (anything more invokes a template include size warning). Maybe it won't allow more than 290 lines max? The map is composed of 294 lines...

Ongoing: The German page version has about 312 lines, so there's no line max - just a text size max (although the German version is hardcoded in, rather than being called as a template). Ah! Abbreviating "old/new Western Railway" to "old/new Western Rly." enables 291 lines to show (leaving 3 to go).

Ongoing: Abbreviating blank cells (by shortening "|}}" to "}}") should help further (38 instances), but doesn't help enough. Still 291 lines max.

Ongoing: Annoying! 291 lines show okay in "preview", bu when saved NONE show and instead the result is a link to the Template:BS-map page (where it incidentally suggests using a superceding Template:routemap as it will load quicker and be a shorter text-size). What? Start all over again? I'm going back to 290 lines to have a further think about whether this updating is a waste of time.

Pershling Bridge

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Added Pershling Bridge because:

  • It helps to explain why the 3 tunnel chain (Reiserberg, Stierschweiffeld and Raingruben) is also known as "Tunnelkette Pershling" (lit: the Pershling Tunnel chain).
  • Other new bridges/viaducts are included on the map, with their metre spans.
  • Source http://www.oebb.at/infrastruktur/en/Servicebox/Brochures_and_Folders/2009_04_Wien_-_St._Poelten_englisch.pdf states "In the open air section between the Stierschweiffeld and the Raingruben Tunnel, the route crosses the river Perschling with a 117 m long and 13.1 m wide prestressed concrete bridge." I checked on a map and it's between the Stierschweiffeld and the Tullnerfeld 4 junction.

Other notable improvements

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  • Swapped positions of "old/new (Loosdorf bypass) line" and "(76,946/76,951) break in Km", and then reduced the 76.946 two-rail markers to just a single rail marker, as German version states the Km break applies to old Western Rly. only. All to aid clarity.
  • Amended all 19 instances of "break in kilometrage" to state "chainage break" instead. Austrians and Swiss engineers call them "Errorprofil" markers on the rail line, and Germans use the term "Kilometerwechsel", "Kilometersprung" oder "Kilometrierungssprung". The French use the term "Kilométrage". British construction engineers use the term "chainage" and "chainage break". Saves 19 x 6 characters = 101 characters shorter. It should enable the addition of an extra line (as still too big to include last four), and the next line is only 89 characters long. But it doesn't - it still won't take an extra line without warning template is too big!
  • Also moved a second chainage break at (91,925/92,230) and narrowed track, so that the break shows as one pair against two parallel lines (instead of two pairs against separated lines. I checked a satellite view of the location (1km east of Pöchlarn) first, and it confirms the lines return to running side-by-side for some distance before that point.

Altitude of Wienna West Bahnhof

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English page version says station is at 167m above the Adriatic. German page version says it is at 198 m above the Adriatic. Which one is correct? http://www.floodmap.net/Elevation/ElevationMap/?gi=2761369 has an elevation map of Vienna generated using elevation data from NASA's 90m resolution SRTM data. The station is at Funfhaus district, an area that the floodmap shows as being between 194m and 223m above sea level. The English version seems to match the city's lowest point (the Danube river). The German version seems more accurate for the station, so I've amended the English page altitude to match the German one (ie. 198m altitude).

Operating points and lines[1]
0.000
Vienna West
198 m (AA)
1.013
Wien West freight yard
Suburban line ("Vorortelinie") from Wien Heiligenstadt
2.553
Wien Penzing
3.437
Vienna Meidling
210 m above sea level (AA)
3.967
Penzing 1 crossover
Southern Rly. to Graz Hbf
connecting railway
4.607
0,000
km-change
0.071
Lainz Tunnel east portal (L 12.8 km)
0.215
start of ETCS L2
Danube Lands Rly. connecting loop from Wien Zvbf
0.679
Hetzendorf junction
2.022
Hetzendorf 1 crossover junction
5.200
Wien Hütteldorf freight train group
5.846
Wien Hütteldorf
7.151
Hetzendorf 4 crossover junction
old Western Rly. / local transport track
8.112
Weichenhalle (switch hall) portal
7.885
Wien Wolf in der Au
()
Lainz Tunnel west portal
new Western Rly. from Vienna Meidling
9.362
Hadersdorf junction
(switch hall)
new / old Western Rly.
9.238
Wien Hadersdorf
()
10.164
Wienerwald Tunnel east portal (L 13.35 km), start of HSL
9.940
Wien Weidlingau
()
10.546
Hadersdorf 1 crossover junction
State border Vienna / Lower Austria
10.952
Purkersdorf Sanatorium
()
old Western Rly. (switch hall) / local transport track
11.091
11.750
chainage break (−659 m)
11.839
Unter Purkersdorf
()
243 m above sea level (AA)
12.889
Purkersdorf Gablitz
16.014
Unter Purkersdorf 1 crossover
16.865
Unter Tullnerbach
19.970
Tullnerbach-Pressbaum
317 m above sea level (AA)
21.283
Pressbaum
337 m above sea level (AA)
22.532
Dürrwien
23.540
Wienerwald Tunnel west portal
24.809
Rekawinkel
360 m above sea level (AA)
Rekawinkl Tunnel (307 m)
307 m above sea level (AA)
Kleiner Dürreberg Tunnel (247 m)
Eichgraben Viaduct (81 m)
29.931
Eichgraben-Altlengbach
31.120
Hutten
32.334
Unter Oberndorf
285 m above sea level (AA)
34.300
Maria Anzbach
35.814
Hofstatt
256 m above sea level (AA)
36.865
Neulengbach Stadt
Laabenbach Viaduct (187 m)
38.006
Neulengbach
former route of Tullnerfeld Rly.
Tullnerfeld Rly. from Tulln
siding
29.855
Tullnerfeld
()
Michelhausen
Tullnerfeld Rly. to Herzogenburg
former route of Tullnerfeld Rly.
35.840
Atzenbrugg Tunnel (2.460 m)
41.461
Ollersbach
Hankenfelder Tunnel (663 m)
Saladorf Tunnel (729 m)
41.335
Tullnerfeld 2 crossover
42.683
43.558
Kirchstetten
45.660
49.076
Böheimkirchen
Perschling Tunnelkette Bridge (117m)
49.846
Tullnerfeld 4 crossover
50.775
51.510
Schildberg
(abandoned)
54.199
54.267
chainage break (−68 m)
54.445
Pottenbrunn
266 m above sea level (AA)
new Western Rly. from Tullnerfeld
55.400
Wagram junction
freight bypass to Rohr junction (in construction)
60.563
St. Pölten Hbf
()
273 m above sea level (AA)
61.262
St. Pölten freight yard
Pummersdorf Tunnel (in construction)
62.025
62.031
chainage break (−6 m)
62.070
Eisberg Arch Tunnel (460 m)
63.720
St. Pölten 1 turnout
67.611
67.806
chainage break (-195 m)
68.664
Prinzersdorf
256 m above sea level (AA)
70.831
Markersdorf an der Pielach
72.525
Prinzersdorf 2 crossover
Radlleiten Tunnel (in construction)
74.035
Groß Sierning
Bründlkapellen Tunnel (in construction)
freight bypass from Wagram junction (in construction)
75.100
Rohr junction
old / new (Loosdorf bypass) line
75.428
Rohr Tunnel (258 m)
76.946
76.951
chainage break (-5 m)
77.550
"Green" Tunnel 1 (250 m)
78.131
Loosdorf
79,923
Rohr 3 crossing
old / new (Melk bypass) line
Wachberg Tunnel 2 (1,001 m)
Wachberg Tunnel 1 (292 m)
84.665
Melk
Melk Tunnel (1,845 m)
86.182
86.370
chainage break (−188 m)
86.436
Rohr 6 crossing
91.925
92.230
chainage break (-305 m)
93.914
Pöchlarn
214 m above sea level (AA)
(old / new line)
Sittenberg Tunnel (4,692 m)
98.220
Krummnußbaum
99.368
Pöchlarn 2 crossing
99.465
Pöchlarn 12 crossing
102.632
Säusenstein
102.448
104.752
chainage break (−2,304 m)
107.137
Ybbs an der Donau
226 m above sea level (AA)
110.887
Neumarkt an der Ybbs-Karlsbach
113.607
Hubertendorf
(abandoned)
113.400
Burgstaller Tunnel (2,250 m)
115.776
115.795
chainage break (−19 m)
117.076
Blindenmarkt
248 m above sea level (AA)
124.558
Amstetten
273 m above sea level (AA)
127.287
Amstetten 11 turnout to Waidhofen an der Ybbs
Rudolfsbahn to Kleinreifling
129.880
Amstetten 2 crossover
131.146
Mauer-Öhling
134.975
Amstetten 14 crossing
135.595
Aschbach
140.180
Krenstetten-Biberbach
141.579
141.586
chainage break (-7 m)
(new / old line)
144.245
St. Peter-Seitenstetten
"Green" Tunnel St. Peter (404 m)
147.230
147.428
chainage break (−198 m)
147.900
St. Johann-Weistrach
153.018
Sieberg Tunnel (6,480 m)
147.979
147.982
chainage break (-3 m)
150.651
Haag
154.038
Stadt Haag
157.498
Haag 2 crossing
160.026
162.161
chainage break (−2,135 m)
161.578
161.567
chainage break (+11 m)
163.043
163.057
chainage break (-14 m)
Rudolfsbahn from Steyr, Kleinreifling
164.100
St. Valentin
268 m above sea level (AA)
165.840
St. Valentin Enns canal bridge
166.180
new (Enns bypass) / old line
Danube Bank Railway - Ennsdorf loop
167.736
St. Valentin 11 turnout
to Krems a. d. Donau
168.737
Ennsdorf
Enns (river), State border Upper/Lower Austria
170.973
Enns
172.649
St. Valentin 3 crossing
173.675
Asten-Fisching
174.300
173.736
chainage break (+564 m)
175.640
176.378
Asten-St. Florian
178.030
Linz-Pichling
179.513
Asten-St. Florian 1 turnout
180.655
Linz Ebelsberg
to Linz Vbf East and Linz Stahlwerke (Steel mill)
182.349
Linz Kleinmünchen
to Linz Vbf West
188.051
188.000
chainage break (-51 m)
188.440
Linz Hbf
local railway to Peuerbach
190.540
192.020
Leonding
194.162
Linz 2 crossing
195.902
Pasching
198.043
Hörsching
295 m above sea level (AA)
201.347
Oftering
Marchtrenk loop to Pyhrn Railway
206.185
Marchtrenk
307 m above sea level (AA)
Overpass to Wels Vbf
208.811
Marchtrenk 1 turnout to Traun
Wels Vbf
212.815
Wels Hbf
316 m above sea level (AA)
220.017
Gunskirchen
345 m above sea level (AA)
new (Lambach bypass) / old line
Kalvarienberg Tunnel (1,410 m)
local railway to Vorchdorf-Eggenberg
  and Traun Valley Railway to Gmunden
226.109
Lambach
307 m above sea level (AA)
227.200
227.503
chainage break (-303 m)
227.633
Lambach Markt
Neukirchen bei Lambach line improvement
230.454
Neukirchen bei Lambach
(new October 2012)
230.556
local railway to Haag am Hausruck
(isolated since October 2012)
233.498
Breitenschützing
Römerberg Tunnel (710 m)
236.662
236.940
chainage break (-278 m)
237.442
Schwanenstadt
240.330
243.292
Attnang-Puchheim
415 m above sea level (AA)
247.966
Vöcklabruck
435 m above sea level (AA)
250.233
Vöcklabruck 1 junction
Vöcklabruck–Kammer Railway to Kammer-Schörfling
252.182
252.200
chainage break (-18 m)
253.317
Timelkam
450 m above sea level (AA)
Ampflwang Railway to Ampflwang
257.090
Neukirchen-Gampern
435 m above sea level (AA)
259.723
Redl-Zipf
472 m above sea level (AA)
264.050
Vöcklamarkt
489 m above sea level (AA)
Local railway (aka. Attergaubahn) to Attersee
268.785
Frankenmarkt
511 m above sea level (AA)
274.577
Frankenmarkt 2 crossing
275.637
Pöndorf
562 m above sea level (AA)
State border Upper Austria / Salzburg
278.440
Ederbauer (ceased 2010)
601 m above sea level (AA)
State border Salzburg / Upper Austria
281.916
Oberhofen-Zell am Moos
571 m above sea level (AA)
State border Upper Austria / Salzburg
285.216
Straßwalchen
542 m above sea level (AA)
287.427
Steindorf bei Straßwalchen
542 m above sea level (AA)
289.174
Neumarkt-Köstendorf
544 m above sea level (AA)
Köstendorf junction (planned)
Seekirchen Tunnel east portal, 14,500m (planned)
293.807
Weng
294.305
Steindorf 2 crossover
296.136
Wallersee
299.445
Seekirchen am Wallersee
514 m above sea level (AA)
Seekirchen Süd
(planned)
302.782
Eugendorf
305.538
Hallwang-Elixhausen
493 m above sea level (AA)
Seekirchen Tunnel west portal (planned)
Fischach
Leitnerbauer Tunnel east portal, 2,000 m (planned)
309.345
Hallwang-E. 2 crossover
Leitnerbauer Tunnel west portal (planned)
309.933
Salzburg Kasern
Salzburg-Gnigl connections (planned)
310.880
Hallwang-E. 3 junction
to Salzburg Gnigl yard
Kasern junction
(planned)
  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.