AUSTRIA: ACCIDENT STOPS MOUNTAIN TRAINS

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Austria's Transport Ministry has stopped the operation of the country's other 5 funicular railways that pass through tunnels, after at least 159 people lost their lives in a fire of such a train in Kaprun. The ground funicular systems are to undergo a technical investigation on 15 November 2000. The 3,178 ski lifts and funicular railways of 255 operators in Austria carry about 550mn passengers per year, generating a turnover of about Sch 10bn. The facilities provide employment for close to 15,000 people in winter and about 5,000 in the summer season. The operators of the lifts and mountain railways make investments of just under Sch 4bn per year on average, mainly in modernisation measures. The cablecar and cableway systems have to under go a TUV technical inspection every five years and an internal inspection once a year. The Austrian National Tourist Office (Osterreich Werbung) and the tourism authority of Salzburg are planning measures to prevent a collapse of tourism as a result of the accident. Earlier on Osterreich Werbung had forecast a 4-7% growth in turnover from winter tourism in 2000/2001.

Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing, Use of services, Lodging & Tourist Services, Accommodation, New Rail Passenger Cars, Railroad equipment, HOTELS AND OTHER LODGING PLACES, Locomotives, Railroad equipment industry, Travel industry, Passenger cars (Railcars)

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AUSTRIA: NEW CABLE CAR FOR KAPRUN

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Gletscherbahnen Kaprun AG has decided to install a second cable car line for the Kitzsteinhorn ski area in Kaprun. The Sch 275mn project is to be carried out between July and the end of 2002. The new cable car line will be able to carry 1,800 people per hour. The funicular train in Kitzsteinhorn tunnel, in which a fire accident took place , will in future be used for goods transport only.

Gletscherbahnen Kaprun AG

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AUSTRIA: DACHSTEIN TO INVEST IN LIFTS

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The loss-making Austrian tourism company Dachstein Tourismus AG is to invest more than Sch 100mn in cable car facilities in the next few years. A new chair lift is to be installed in Gosau for Sch 26mn.

Dachstein Tourismus AG

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