AUSTRIA: MINISTER URGES OBB TO INVEST

Article Abstract:

In a letter to OBB management, Austria's transport minister Caspar Einem has told the national railway company Osterreichische Bundesbahnen to spend profits of Sch 500mn on investments in passenger traffic. OBB is lacking especially express train wagons. Moreover, the increase in freight traffic has resulted in a shortage of locomotives. OBB's locomotives are 15 to 20 years old on average. It is estimated that the new Taurus locomotives, the first one of which is to be delivered in a few weeks, will bring no considerable improvement in the situation before 2003.

Railroad Rolling Stock Manufacturing, Railroad Freight Operations, Government domestic functions, Railroads, Rail Transportation, New Rail Passenger Cars, Rail freight, Passenger cars (Railcars), Osterreichische Bundesbahnen

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AUSTRIA: PRIVATE OPERATOR SOUGHT FOR RAILWAY

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The Lower Austrian government is looking for a private operator for the Mariazellerbahn narrow-gauge railway, which OBB is to abandon on 9 June 2001. The 85-km line between Mariazell and St. Polten carries about 750,000 passengers per year. The Lower Austrian government is prepared to contribute Sch 300mn to Sch 400mn for new rolling stock.

Organizational history, Railroads, line-haul operating

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