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Note: Despite a common electrification system, different designs of overhead line and pantographs prevents through working by electric trains without special arrangements.  
Note: Despite a common electrification system, different designs of overhead line and pantographs prevents through working by electric trains without special arrangements.  


Until 2006, the [http://www.rheinregulierung.at/ Internationale Rheinregulierung] (IRR) operated a works railway (43 km long, 750 mm gauge, electrified at 750V dc overhead) for construction and maintetance purposes for the River Rhein as it enters the Bodensee (Lake Constance). The association [http://www.rheinschauen.at/ Verein Rhein-Schauen] operates passenger trains over this railway, partially with steam engines. Normally only the section on the east side between Werkhof Lustenau and the lake is in used, but specials may operate on the rest of the remaining network. However the future for all but the first mentioned section is uncertain. There were three border crossings, listed below.
Until 2006, the Internationale Rheinregulierung (IRR) operated a works railway (43 km long, 750 mm gauge, electrified at 750V dc overhead) for construction and maintetance purposes for the River Rhein as it enters the Bodensee (Lake Constance). The association [http://www.rheinschauen.at/ Verein Rhein-Schauen] operates passenger trains over this railway, partially with steam engines. The principal section is that on the east side between Werkhof Lustenau and the lake, but specials may operate on the rest of the remaining network - see [https://www.rheinschauen.at/images/simplegallery/bahn/Streckenbersicht.jpg plan]. There were three border crossings (but now only one), listed below  


==Mäder IRR - Kriessern IRR==
==Mäder IRR - Kriessern IRR==
[E] on a railway bridge over the Rhine for the quarry at Koblach. This crossing is no longer in use, the track is not complete south of the former Werkhof Widnau.
[E] on a railway bridge over the Rhine for the Kadelberg quarry at Koblach. No longer in use, the track south of Zollamt Kriessern (near Mäder) having been lifted in 2012.  


==Lustenau Wiesenrain IRR - Widnau IRR==
==Lustenau Wiesenrain IRR - Widnau IRR==
[E] on a combined road/railway steel bridge over the Rhein. Observed in use for special trains in 2007.
[E] on a combined road/railway steel bridge over the Rhein. Still in use in 2018.


==(Bregenz -) Lustenau Markt ÖBB - St Margarethen SBB==
==(Bregenz -) Lustenau Markt ÖBB - St Margarethen SBB==
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==Höchst Bruggerloch IRR - St.Margrethen IRR==
==Höchst Bruggerloch IRR - St.Margrethen IRR==
[E] along the left-bank (i.e. west side) Rhein flood embankment (leading to the end of the embankment in Lake Constance). Observed in use for special trains in 2007, but the remaining usable track on the Austrian side is short.
[E] along the left-bank (i.e. west side) Rhein flood embankment (leading to the end of the embankment in Lake Constance). No longer in use.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Austria]]
* [[Switzerland]]
* [[Border Crossings - General Information]]
* [[Border Crossings - General Information]]
{{Navbox Austria}}
{{Navbox Switzerland}}


[[Category:Border Crossings|Austria - Switzerland]]
[[Category:Border Crossings|Austria - Switzerland]]

Revision as of 20:29, 18 August 2018

Note: Despite a common electrification system, different designs of overhead line and pantographs prevents through working by electric trains without special arrangements.

Until 2006, the Internationale Rheinregulierung (IRR) operated a works railway (43 km long, 750 mm gauge, electrified at 750V dc overhead) for construction and maintetance purposes for the River Rhein as it enters the Bodensee (Lake Constance). The association Verein Rhein-Schauen operates passenger trains over this railway, partially with steam engines. The principal section is that on the east side between Werkhof Lustenau and the lake, but specials may operate on the rest of the remaining network - see plan. There were three border crossings (but now only one), listed below

Mäder IRR - Kriessern IRR

[E] on a railway bridge over the Rhine for the Kadelberg quarry at Koblach. No longer in use, the track south of Zollamt Kriessern (near Mäder) having been lifted in 2012.

Lustenau Wiesenrain IRR - Widnau IRR

[E] on a combined road/railway steel bridge over the Rhein. Still in use in 2018.

(Bregenz -) Lustenau Markt ÖBB - St Margarethen SBB

[E] ÖBB works local trains to St Margrethen. SBB works international trains to/from Lindau, using SBB Cargo Re 421 locomotives. These are 421 371 to 421 397 (formerly 11371 to 11397) all of which have a DB/ÖBB pantograph and the necessary safety systems.

Höchst Bruggerloch IRR - St.Margrethen IRR

[E] along the left-bank (i.e. west side) Rhein flood embankment (leading to the end of the embankment in Lake Constance). No longer in use.

See also