{"id":8367,"date":"2024-09-25T01:29:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T01:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-1\/"},"modified":"2024-09-25T01:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T01:29:24","slug":"rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/rajoice-and-sing-at-semmering-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajoice and Sing at Semmering (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Train’s The Thing At Semmering<\/span><\/p>\n Even while being built, the Semmering railway was perceived as an effort of “landscape gardening” …<\/span><\/p>\n A trip on the Semmering railway, which is in full use 160 years after its building, still impresses the traveller.<\/span><\/p>\n It is 95 autobahn kilometres from Vienna (Wien) on the E59.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n But the railway brought hyper expansion to this little isolated community. It brought summer holidays …<\/span><\/p>\n … and winter sports.<\/span><\/p>\n And, to cater for the jolly holiday makers, along came some huge hotels …<\/span><\/p>\n Note the wiggles to conquer the mountainous area round Semmering. The curvatious nature of the route on the approaches to Semmering is shown to advantage on this rail only map.<\/p>\n the station is a few road wiggles away from the village centre …<\/p>\n … with station at the top and village at the bottom of the aerial view above. Basically everything is a wiggle away from the village …<\/p>\n … and the station is eschewed by Streetview, so fbb can only peer across from the nearest wiggle. Take note of the tower bottom left below.<\/p>\n … where the tower (ex signal box?) is seen next to the blue carriage.<\/p>\n The preserved blue and white is part of a small railway museum at the station.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n fbb guesses that the longer distance trains are traditionally loco hauled …<\/p>\n … and the stoppers are DMUs.<\/p><\/div>\n But it is probably not quite as simple as that. More research needed!<\/p><\/div>\n The coach bodies were made of wood …<\/p>\n … and, as supplied, the chassis was fairly crude.<\/p>\n There was no glazing, no lightning and very little interior detail.<\/p><\/div>\n