Traffic on a busy railway connection in Tyrol had to be stopped for three hours due to the discovery of a wartime bomb.The World War Two (WWII) bomb weighing around 250 kilograms was found by workers renovating a railway bridge near the town of Roppen yesterday (Mon).No one was injured when explosives experts sent by […]
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Polish 11mn order for Kapsch
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Viennese technology company Kapsch TrafficCom AG (Kapsch) has bagged a major assignment in Poland.The road toll systems specialist said today (Thurs) it will set up a digital radio system on 84 kilometres of railway network in the country. The company, which is headed by Georg Kapsch, added the contract was worth 11 million Euros.Kapsch official […]
ÖBB to train rival’s staff
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Federal Railways (ÖBB) boss Christian Kern has revealed that his firm will begin training the train drivers of a rival company.Businessman Hans Peter Haselsteiner and former ÖBB manager Stefan Wehinger’s Westbahn project will start offering around daily connections between Vienna and Salzburg this December. Wehinger recently told Die Presse newspaper: “We expect to achieve operative […]
Westbahn boss Stefan Wehinger has said he hopes to make a profit five years after the new railway firm goes into operation.Wehinger said today (Tues): “We expect to achieve operative profits after five years. I have to say that I think many of those who have been in the business for a long time are […]
Police have said an errant shot during a pheasant hunt could have caused a technical failure in railway operations.Officials in Fehring, Styria, said today (Mon) they had investigated the local railway lines guarded barriers after a breakdown over the weekend. They said a switchbox went out of order due to what seems to be a […]
Police had to wait more than 24 hours to question a boozed-up thief.The 31-year-old man was caught by police half an hour after he stole a bottle of vodka from a shop in Viennas western railway station (Westbahnhof) yesterday morning (Weds).The Vienna resident was, however, too drunk to face an enquiry on the same day, […]
Traffic on a major railway route in Tyrol had to be closed down this morning (Thurs) after workers discovered a leak in a rail tanker.Federal Railways (ÖBB) announced that staff had noticed gas escaping from a wagon at Kufstein station. Officials decided to evacuate the venue and halt traffic for around an hour as a […]
Train severs railway worker’s leg
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A railway employee lost a leg when he was run over by a slow-moving train in Carinthia yesterday (Weds).The 52-year-old from St. Veit an der Glan was engaged in repair and maintenance work at a Weißenstein chemistry firms railway system when he failed to observe an oncoming train.Christoph Posch, a spokesman for Federal Railways ÖBB, […]
Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) supervisory board chief Horst Pöchhacker revealed today (Weds) the firms freight business department suffered operative losses of 100 million Euros last year.Pöchhacker said in a radio interview: “Turnover dropped by 500 million Euros due to the exceptional crisis last year, but we already managed to save around 400 million Euros.”He claimed […]