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The Austrian Society for Railway History ( or ÖGEG) is an Austrian society that was formed from a group of railway fans, who got together around 1971 in order to look after working steam locomotives at the
The railway museum in Ampflwang im Hausruckwald houses the society’s extensive steam loco collection. It is located in a former WTK coal and steel works at the terminus of the former coal railway. In 2005 the Ampflwang railway museum acquired the
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ÖBB
The Austrian Federal Railways ( , formally or () and formerly the or ''BBÖ'' ), now commonly known as ÖBB (), is the national railway company of Austria, and the administrator of Liechtenstein's railways. The ÖBB group i ...
depot of Linz
Linz (Pronunciation: , ; ) is the capital of Upper Austria and List of cities and towns in Austria, third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, south of the border with the Czech Repub ...
.
History
The society was founded in 1974 in Linz, with the aim of taking into its ownership one of the steam locomotives that it had cared for, as well as preserving the closed railway line, the '' Florianerbahn'', as a heritage railway. In the following years the ÖGEG acquired several retired ÖBB locomotives. The first one to run again under its own power on ÖBB lines was locomotive ÖBB 93.1455 in 1978. In succeeding years other locomotives were refurbished in the rented ÖBB boiler house at Amstetten, and several were presented to large numbers of the public in 1987 at the 150th anniversary of the railways in Austria at vehicle parades in Strasshof an der Nordbahn and at vehicle shows. In the 1980s the ÖGEG procured a Class 142 locomotive inRomania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
. This class was a BBÖ Class 214 (ÖBB Class 12) built under licence in Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...
, the largest and most powerful steam locomotive of Austrian design. It was back in service by 1993. After the collapse of the Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the political and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. On the east side of the Iron Curtain were countries connected to the So ...
, numerous well-preserved German locomotives could be bought, particularly from Romania, but also in the former German Democratic Republic
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...
. As a result the society was criticised because funding was used to buy several German locomotives without any connexion to the railway history of Austria. These engines were however used commercially for special services with great success. On the retirement of older locomotives from the ÖBB in the early 1990s the ÖGEG also obtained many electric and diesel traction units.
ÖGEG's historical railway vehicles are in service today on the ÖBB railway network, on Austrian private railways and also abroad.
The ''Florianerbahn'' has since been hived off from the ÖGEG and transferred into a separate company.
The ÖGEG has two of its own lines today. It runs a long section of the Steyr Valley Railway
The Steyr Valley Railway () was a narrow gauge railway in Upper Austria, which ran along the valley of the River Steyr from Garsten through Steyr, Grünburg and Molln to Klaus, with a branchline to Sierning and Bad Hall. A section of the li ...
(''Steyrtalbahn'') from the Steyr
Steyr (; ) is a statutory city (Austria), statutory city, located in the Austrian federal state of Upper Austria. It is the administrative capital, though not part of Steyr-Land District. Steyr is Austria's 12th most populated town and the 3rd lar ...
branch line station to Grünburg. The line is the oldest narrow gauge railway in Austria and has a rail gauge of . It was closed in 1982, and reopened in 1985 as a museum railway. The ''Steyrtalbahn'' has eight steam locomotives in its operating fleet.
In 1995 the first specials were run on the former coal railway of the WTK (Wolfsegg Traunthaler) from Timelkam
Timelkam is a municipality in the district of Vöcklabruck in the Austrian state of Upper Austria
Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Re ...
to Ampflwang. After that the ''Ampflwanger Bahn'' was taken over and is today the ÖGEG standard gauge museum line, ferrying visitors to the railway museum at Ampflwang.
In 1995 the ÖGEG also acquired the last steam passenger ship of the Austrian Danube shipping fleet, the ''Schönbrunn''.
Ampflwang Railway Museum
The railway museum in Ampflwang im Hausruckwald houses the society’s extensive steam loco collection. It is located in a former WTK coal and steel works at the terminus of the former coal railway. In 2005 the Ampflwang railway museum acquired the turntable
A phonograph, later called a gramophone, and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of sound. The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding phys ...
of the former ''Bahnbetriebswerk
A ''Bahnbetriebswerk'' is the equivalent of a locomotive depot (or motive power depot) on the German and Austrian railways. It is an installation that carries out the maintenance, minor repairs, refuelling and cleaning of locomotives and other ...
'' at Rosenheim as well as the traverser from the former SGP factory at Vienna-Simmering. In addition a new roundhouse was built around the turntable. The railway museum was the venue for the Upper Austrian State Exhibition (''Oberösterreichische Landesausstellung'') in 2006 under the motto ''Kohle und Dampf'' (coal and steam).
Vehicles (partial list)
Steam locomotives
*01.533 (DR Class 01.5
The DR Class 01.5 was the designation given by the Deutsche Reichsbahn (GDR), Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany to express train locomotives that were 'reconstructed' from those of the pre-war DRG Class 01.
History
In 1962 the repair shop ( ...
East German express locomotive, rebuilt in 1964 from 1934-built DRG Class 01
The Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft's BR 01 steam locomotives were the first standardised (''Einheitsdampflokomotive'') steam express passenger locomotives built by the unified German railway system. They were of 4-6-2 "Pacific" wheel arrangeme ...
number 01 116, (''Einheitsdampflokomotive The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'', ''Einheitsloks'', ''Einheitsdampfloks'' or simply ''Dampflok'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under th ...
''), standard gauge)
*"12.14" (BBÖ 214
The BBÖ 214 were a class of 13 Austrian 2-8-4 express train steam locomotives of the Federal Railways of Austria (''Bundesbahnen Österreich'', BBÖ). They were the largest steam locomotives ever built in Austria and the most powerful express loco ...
series tender express locomotive built under licence in Romania as CFR 142.063, standard gauge)
*638.1301 (Prussian P 8
The Prussian Class P 8 of the Prussian state railways (DRG Class 38.10-40 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn) was a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built from 1906 to 1923 by the Berliner Maschinenbau (previously Schwartzkopff) and twelve other German factories. ...
= ÖBB 638
The Prussian Class P 8 of the Prussian state railways (DRG Class 38.10-40 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn) was a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built from 1906 to 1923 by the Berliner Maschinenbau (previously Schwartzkopff) and twelve other German factories. ...
, standard gauge)
*638.2174 (Prussian P 8
The Prussian Class P 8 of the Prussian state railways (DRG Class 38.10-40 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn) was a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built from 1906 to 1923 by the Berliner Maschinenbau (previously Schwartzkopff) and twelve other German factories. ...
= ÖBB 638
The Prussian Class P 8 of the Prussian state railways (DRG Class 38.10-40 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn) was a 4-6-0 steam locomotive built from 1906 to 1923 by the Berliner Maschinenbau (previously Schwartzkopff) and twelve other German factories. ...
, standard gauge)
*42.2750 (DRB Class 42
The DRB Class 42Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*42.2753 (DRB Class 42
The DRB Class 42Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*44.661 ( DRG Class 44 German heavy goods train steam locomotive (''Einheitsdampflokomotive The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'', ''Einheitsloks'', ''Einheitsdampfloks'' or simply ''Dampflok'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under th ...
''), standard gauge)
*44.1614 ( DRG Class 44 German heavy goods train steam locomotive (''Einheitsdampflokomotive The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'', ''Einheitsloks'', ''Einheitsdampfloks'' or simply ''Dampflok'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under th ...
''), standard gauge)
*50.1002 ( DRB Class 50 German 2-10-0 goods locomotive, built from 1939, (''Einheitsdampflokomotive The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'', ''Einheitsloks'', ''Einheitsdampfloks'' or simply ''Dampflok'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under th ...
''), standard gauge)
*50.3506 ( DRB Class 50 German 2-10-0 goods locomotive, built from 1939, (''Einheitsdampflokomotive The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'', ''Einheitsloks'', ''Einheitsdampfloks'' or simply ''Dampflok'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under th ...
''), standard gauge)
*50.3519 ( DRB Class 50 German 2-10-0 goods locomotive, built from 1939, (''Einheitsdampflokomotive The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'', ''Einheitsloks'', ''Einheitsdampfloks'' or simply ''Dampflok'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under th ...
''), standard gauge)
*50.3689 ( DRB Class 50 German 2-10-0 goods locomotive, built from 1939, (''Einheitsdampflokomotive The Einheitsdampflokomotiven ("standard steam locomotives"), sometimes shortened to ''Einheitslokomotiven'', ''Einheitsloks'', ''Einheitsdampfloks'' or simply ''Dampflok'', were the standardized steam locomotives built in Germany after 1925 under th ...
''), standard gauge)
*52.1198 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*52.3316 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*52.3517 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*52.4552 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*52.7102 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*52.8096 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*52.8124 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*52.8186 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*52.8196 (DRB Class 52
The Deutsche Reichsbahn's Class 52Wartime locomotives classes are prefixed DRB (Deutsche Reichsbahn) to distinguish them from those introduced by the DRG (prefixed DRG), which became defunct in 1937, and those introduced later by the East German ...
German war locomotive ('' Kriegslok''),standard gauge)
*657.2519 (Prussian G 10
The Prussian G 10 was a German goods train, steam locomotive, whose design was based on a combination of the running and valve gear from the Prussian T 16 and the boiler from the Prussian P 8. In developing the G 10, however, the T 16 running ...
= ÖBB Class 657
The Prussian G 10 was a German goods train, steam locomotive, whose design was based on a combination of the running and valve gear from the Prussian T 16 and the boiler from the Prussian P 8. In developing the G 10, however, the T 16 running ge ...
, standard gauge)
*657.2770 (Prussian G 10
The Prussian G 10 was a German goods train, steam locomotive, whose design was based on a combination of the running and valve gear from the Prussian T 16 and the boiler from the Prussian P 8. In developing the G 10, however, the T 16 running ...
= ÖBB Class 657
The Prussian G 10 was a German goods train, steam locomotive, whose design was based on a combination of the running and valve gear from the Prussian T 16 and the boiler from the Prussian P 8. In developing the G 10, however, the T 16 running ge ...
, standard gauge)
*657.3459 (Prussian G 10
The Prussian G 10 was a German goods train, steam locomotive, whose design was based on a combination of the running and valve gear from the Prussian T 16 and the boiler from the Prussian P 8. In developing the G 10, however, the T 16 running ...
= ÖBB Class 657
The Prussian G 10 was a German goods train, steam locomotive, whose design was based on a combination of the running and valve gear from the Prussian T 16 and the boiler from the Prussian P 8. In developing the G 10, however, the T 16 running ge ...
, standard gauge)
*77.28 (BBÖ 629, ex- Südbahn 629, later ÖBB 77 series, standard gauge)
*78.618 ( BBÖ 729 series, later ÖBB 78 series, standard gauge)
*86.056 ( DRG Class 86 German tank locomotive
A tank locomotive is a steam locomotive which carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender (rail), tender. Most tank engines also have Fuel bunker, bunkers (or fuel tanks) to hold fuel; in a #Tender ...
, standard gauge)
*86.501 ( DRG Class 86 German tank locomotive
A tank locomotive is a steam locomotive which carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender (rail), tender. Most tank engines also have Fuel bunker, bunkers (or fuel tanks) to hold fuel; in a #Tender ...
, standard gauge)
*93.1326 (BBÖ 378
The BBÖ 378 (later DRB class 93.13, then ÖBB 93) was a class of 167 Austrian 2-8-2 tank locomotives built by all four Austrian locomotive manufacturers in the 1920s and 1930s.
History
In the 1920s, the competition from road transport was alread ...
standard gauge)
*93.1394 (BBÖ 378
The BBÖ 378 (later DRB class 93.13, then ÖBB 93) was a class of 167 Austrian 2-8-2 tank locomotives built by all four Austrian locomotive manufacturers in the 1920s and 1930s.
History
In the 1920s, the competition from road transport was alread ...
standard gauge)
*93.1455 (BBÖ 378
The BBÖ 378 (later DRB class 93.13, then ÖBB 93) was a class of 167 Austrian 2-8-2 tank locomotives built by all four Austrian locomotive manufacturers in the 1920s and 1930s.
History
In the 1920s, the competition from road transport was alread ...
standard gauge)
*392.2530 ( BBÖ 478 standard gauge)
*298.102 ( Steyrtalbahn 2, narrow gauge, oldest preserved and working narrow gauge locomotive in Austria, 760 mm)
*298.106 ( Steyrtalbahn 6, narrow gauge)
*298.52 ( kkStB U series, ex NÖLB U.2, narrow gauge)
*298.53 ( kkStB U series, ex NÖLB U.3, narrow gauge)
*498.04 ( BBÖ Uh series, narrow gauge)
*399.005 ( NÖLB Mh series, ex NÖLB Mh.5, arrow gauge)
*699.103 ( HF 160 D series, narrow gauge)
Diesel locomotives
*2050.05 (standard gauge) *2045.012 (standard gauge)Diesel railbus
*5046.214 (standard gauge)Electric locomotives
*1010.09 (standard gauge) *1018.002 (standard gauge) *1110.522 (standard gauge) *1110.526 (standard gauge) *1141.21 (standard gauge)Ships
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