page_title: Heeresfeldbahn
section_title: Subsequent civilian use
hierarchical_section_title: Heeresfeldbahn / Subsequent civilian use
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Ein Zug der Steyrtal-Museumsbahn am Bahnhof Aschach. Die Lok 699.103 ist eine zur Tenderlok umgebaute ehemalige Heeresfeldbahnlokomotive HF 160 D. English: Train of the preserved Steyrtalbahn entering Aschach station, Upper Austria. The loco 699.103 is a fomer narrow gauge war engine and was in regular use until closure of the line in 1982.
context_page_description: A Heeresfeldbahn is a German or Austrian military field railway. They were field railways designed for the military transportation purposes.
context_section_description: In addition to the typical tasks of military field railways in war itself, they were also sometimes used for civilian tasks once the war was over or their military function was finished. Such duties were occasionally carried out by military units and sometimes they built long access lines. For example, in the 1870s, when the Imperial and Royal Military Railway built a supply line from Bosnian Brod to Zenica in Bosnia was quickly expanded into a fully operational narrow gauge railway for general use, thus founding the extensive railway network built to the so-called Bosnian gauge of  760 mm. Even after the First World War, when the Heeresfeldbahnen were used very widely, a number of routes were used for public transport. For example, the Grödnerbahn in Tyrol, now in South Tyrol - Alto Adige in Italy was built with 760 mm gauge, like the Fleimstalbahn - Ferrovia della Val di Fiemme, as a supply line to the Dolomite front. The narrow gauge Ohrid line from Skopje to Ohrid in Macedonia, over 200 km long with a gauge of 600 mm, was originally a military railway of this type.
  Transportable Feldbahn track materiel, locomotives and wagons were often sold to civilian companies after the cessation of hostilities and the politically driven disbandment of the troops responsible for them. This materiel was occasionally still in use for decades after the war's end. For example, in some peat works today there are still track sections from the Imperial Austrian Military Railway to be found and in Feldbahn museums there is a variety of steel relics to be seen.
caption: A HF Class 160 D (ÖBB 699.1), converted to a tank engine, on the Steyrtalbahn
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