Station and turntable at Vordernberg Süd, Erzbergbahn. The station opened in 1872, first as an
end station from Leoben, in 1891 a rack line (maximum gradient 7.1 %) over the pass was opened. Steam
operation ended in 1978, after that the rack was removed; since 1986 the ore trains no longer operate
over the mountain line and in 1988 all traffic between Eisenerz and Vordernberg ended. Since 2001
there are no more regular trains between Leoben and Vordernberg, but in 2003 the mountain section
Vordernberg - Eisenerz was opened again as a museum line, operated with railbuses based at the
turntable seen in the picture. See <a 
href="http://www.erzbergbahn.at/">http://www.erzbergbahn.at/</a>.
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2007-09-16
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<a href="mailto:tbk@uncia.at">tobias b k&ouml;hler</a>