# Narrow-gauge railways in Austria

The first railway in Austria was the narrow-gauge line from Gmunden in the Salzkammergut to Budweis, now in the Czech Republic, this was 1,106 mm (3 ft 7+1⁄2 in) gauge. Some two dozen lines were built in 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) gauge, a few in 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge gauge. The first was the Steyrtalbahn. Others were built by provincial governments, some lines are still in common carrier use and a number of others are preservation projects. The tramway network in Innsbruck is also metre gauge; in Linz the rather unusual gauge of 900 mm (2 ft 11+7⁄16 in) is in use.
384 km 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge gauge; 88 km 760 mm (2 ft 5+15⁄16 in) gauge (2008)

## Metre-gauge railways

* Achenseebahn, 6.78 km, steam engine.
* Lokalbahn Vöcklamarkt–Attersee, 15.3 km and electrified.
* Schafbergbahn,a cog railway, 5.85 km, steam engine.
* Schneebergbahn, a cog railway, 9.85km
* Stubaitalbahn, 18.2 km, now trams in Innsbruck Linie STB, Fulpmes-Innsbruck Hbf, electrified
* Innsbrucker Mittelgebirgsbahn, 8.4 km and electrified. Now became trams in Innsbruck Linie 6, electrified.
* Traunseebahn 14.9km, connects to the Gmunden tramway, electrified.
* Lokalbahn Mödling–Hinterbrühl, 4.5 km, closed in 1932. It was the first electrified railway in Austria.
* Straßenbahn Unterach–See am Mondsee, 3.26 km, closed in 1949.
* Lokalbahn Innsbruck–Hall in Tirol, 11.8 km, closed in 1974.

## 900mm gauge railways

* The Florianerbahn is a museum tramway in Upper Austria.
* The Trams in Linz are electrified, operating at 600 V C, opened in 1913 and extended in 2009 when the Pöstlingbergbahn was integrated with the tramway after gauge conversion from metre gauge.

## 760mm gauge railways

* Bregenzerwaldbahn 35.3 km, steam engine
* Feistritztalbahn in Steiermark, 42.2 km, steam engine
* Höllentalbahn, 5 km
* Lokalbahn Ober-Grafendorf–Gresten in Lower Austria, 62.3 km, a branch of Mariazellerbahn.
* Lokalbahn Mixnitz–Sankt Erhard in Steiermark, 10.7 km, electrified.
* Mariazellerbahn, from Sankt Pölten to Mariazell, 85 km electrified.
* Murtalbahn, 76.1 km, steam engine
* Pinzgauer Lokalbahn, from Zell am See to Krimml, 52.6 km
* Stainzerbahn in Steiermark, 11.3 km, steam engine.
* Steyrtalbahn, from Garsten to Klaus, 19.2 km, steam engine
* Taurachbahn, a museum railway.
* Thörlerbahn, from Kapfenberg to Au-Seewiesen in Styria, 22.7 km, diesel engine, closed in 1999.
* Vellachtalbahn in Kärnten, 17.5 km
* Waldviertler Schmalspurbahnen in Lower Austria, 82 km, steam engine.
* Ybbstalbahn, 76.6 km, steam engine.
* Zillertalbahn, from Jenbach to Mayrhofen, 33.1 km, locomotive.
* numerous logging railways build from surplus military equipment after 1918, no longer in operation.

## 750mm gauge railway

* Dienstbahn der Internationalen Rheinregulierung, 25 km. Common freight carrier and partly a heritage railway

## 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) railway lines

* Museumsfeldbahn Großgmain [de]; 1.7 km, operating
* Feistritzwaldbahn [de]; 22 km, defunct
* Kleinbahn Neusiedl am See [de]; 1.5 km, defunct
* Reißeck-Höhenbahn [de], 3.3 km, defunct
* Schwertberger Kaolinzug [de]; 3.8 km, defunct
* Waldbahn Haselbach [de]; 2.5 km, defunct
* Waldbahn Naßwald [de]; 2 km, a defunct heritage railway

## 500 mm (19+3⁄4 in) railway lines

* Geriatriezentrum Am Wienerwald Feldbahn