Locomotives and Multiple-units - Austria: Illustrated Books - Overviews

Austrian Railways - Locomotives, Multiple Units and Trams

The complete guide to all locomotives and multiple units in service on the railways of Austria, and all trams operating on Austria's tramways and light railway networks. It includes:
- A brief historical background to the railways of Austria.
- Detailed fleet lists of all locomotives & multiple units in service with the former state-controlled operator, ÖBB.
- Detailed fleet lists and information for the many independent railways that operate services over their own infrastructure. Includes standard gauge and narrow-gauge undertakings.
- Descriptions of the operations and fleet lists for all open-access freight operators in Austria.
- Fleet lists, technical and operating information for all five tramway-connected cities, plus details of the Wien U-Bahn.
- A general overview of the organisation and structure of Austrian Railways.
- Useful tips on how the get to Austria from the UK and information about tickets and rail passes.
- Detailed maps of the Austrian railway network.
- An explanation of the locomotive and railcar numbering system and the European Vehicle Numbering scheme.
- Livery information.
- Depot allocations.
- Technical data for every class of locomotive and multiple unit.
- Full lists of preserved steam, diesel and electric locomotives and multiple units.
- Information about museums and museum lines with contact details, line lengths and brief summaries of the number of exhibits usually present.
- Over 60 colour illustrations.
- An extensive list of locomotive and multiple unit builders
- A list of common railway-themed terms in German and English.

This book has been compiled and updated by Today's Railways Europe's Austria correspondent and renowned expert in the field, Roland Beier. It is the result of considerable original research and has been produced with the aid of reference material accumulated over many years.

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Locomotives from Linz - 760mm Gauge

An illustrated history of the 760mm gauge locomotives produced in Linz, Austria. Many of these iconic locomotives survived into preservation and will be familiar to narrow gauge enthusiasts who have travelled in Europe.

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Die Krokodile - Elektroloks der SBB, ÖBB, RhB und DB (Lok-Legenden)

Hardly any other type of locomotive is as popular as the Swiss crocodiles, which owe their nickname to their characteristic appearance and to their long presence in everyday railway life.

From 1920 onwards, they played a key role in traction on the Gotthard for several decades. But the hard-to-miss "crocodiles" were also in tireless use on other railway lines from the very beginning, mainly pulling heavy and long freight trains. This made the locomotives synonymous with power, reliability and durability.

This volume of locomotive legends describes the history, development and use in words and pictures.

Pages of the book "Die Krokodile - Elektroloks der SBB, ÖBB, RhB und DB"

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Loks und Triebwagen der ÖBB - Österreichische Bundesbahnen seit 1947

In words and pictures, Roland Beier presents all the locomotives and railcars of the Austrian Bundesbahns (ÖBB), founded in 1947. In addition to modern new vehicles, these include tried-and-tested series that have been in use for decades and have in some cases been extensively modernized in the ÖBB workshops in order to continue to be used on the rail network of the Alpine Republic.

Pages of the book "Loks und Triebwagen der ÖBB - Österreichische Bundesbahnen seit 1947"

The competent presentation is rounded off by an overview of all ÖBB locomotives that have been preserved. Tables with the most important technical data for each vehicle and a list of abbreviations complete this informative book.

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Mit Volldampf durch Österreich - Dampfloks im Einsatz 1955–1975

Sometimes fast, sometimes leisurely - this is how steam travelled through the Alpine republic until 1976. A must for steam locomotive enthusiasts, this impressive illustrated book, compiled from previously unpublished photos by British railway enthusiasts, recalls the last great heyday of the steam locomotive in Austria after the Second World War.

Andrew Fox, an excellent expert on Austrian railways, reports in detail in his book on the last decades of steam locomotive use. The broad spectrum ranges from the Salzkammergut Lokalbahn to the Erzbergbahn.

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Dampfbetrieb in Österreich (Band 2) - Farbaufnahmen ab 1958

In the second volume of his color documentation, the well-known Austrian specialist author and railway historian Dipl. Ing. Eduard Saßmann presents historical photographs from his archive of scheduled steam operations in Austria from 1958 onwards!

This is followed by the use of steam locomotives in the ÖBB directorates Linz and Villach as well as on the Graz-Köflacher Railway and on the famous Austro-Hungarian private railway GySEV.
The representative selection of route images is supplemented with rare photographs of operations in the train haulage and steam locomotive repairs in the main workshop in Knittelfeld.

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Der Taurus - Die Baureihe 182 der DB AG & die Reihe 1016/1116 der ÖBB (Lok-Legenden)

The Taurus is the award-winning, successful model among modern electric locomotives, of which more than 500 have been manufactured to date. At the end of the 1990s, the Austrian Bundesbahns (ÖBB) decided to purchase a new, faster and more powerful locomotive for express trains and freight transport - the 230 km/h, 6400 kW Taurus, which was developed and built by Siemens.

Pages of the book "Der Taurus - Die Baureihe 182 der DB AG & die Reihe 1016/1116 der ÖBB"

The new locomotive proved so successful that it is now in regular use in Germany, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Switzerland. On September 2, 2006, Siemens even set a world record for conventional locomotives with a series-produced Taurus: on the new Nuremberg-Ingolstadt line, the machine reached 357 km/h.

Werner Kurtz is an expert on the Taurus and has written down the history, design and technology of the successful locomotive type in this volume.

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Typenatlas Österreichische Lokomotiven und Triebwagen - ÖBB und Privatbahnen

A compact presentation of the locomotives currently used by the ÖBB and the Austrian private railways.
Each vehicle type is presented with a photo and a text with information on the technology, history and use. Tables with the technical data complement the portraits.

• First representation of the locomotives of the ÖBB and the Austrian private railways
• Important reference work with current status
• Attractive illustrations, mainly with varied route photos.

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