This section deals with those things which are necessary to the running of a railway. It includes, bridges signals, stations, crossing, ploughs, cranes and other special vehicles.

Remember that Austria is highly mountainous, with deep valleys. And it snows heavily for part of the year. Expect great feats of engineering. Expect wonderful machines.

Here you can start to look at

		Bridges Bridges come in many shapes and sizes. They also form part of the twisting lines that ascend valley sides. Steel, stone concrete. See the bridges themselves, not just the trains
		Stations Come in many shapes and sizes, from little more than a marked plot of ground by the track to spectacular central European Building. This section shows the buildings in their own right, not as backrgounds for trains.
		Tunnels In a country surrounded by mountains, tunnels are often the only way through. Be it the Tauern, the Arlberg, the Semmering, their names are synonymous with railway routes.
		Level crossings Crossing a road on foot is dangerous, crossing a railway line is equally hazardous. The level crossing is the official way for rails and road to cross safely.
		Signals Most of Austrian track is modern and signalled for bi-directional running. Learn more about the system here. or buy our handbook on the subject.
		Special Vehicles You need a range of special vehicles to run a railway. Cranes, Track maintainance, crew vehicles. The overhead requires erec tion and repair (with the turmwagon). stock needs heated, often by redundant locomotives, and some dampfloks were converted to snowploughs. Special snowploughs and simple departmental locomotives complete this section

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updated 2nd August2004

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