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Rittnerbahn Overview Type passenger Status piece abandoned Termini Bolzano (Bozen) Klobenstein Stations 12 Operation Opened August 13, 1907 Operator(s) SAD Technical Line length 11,80 km Track gauge 1000mm Electrification 750 Volt direct current The Rittnerbahn (Italian: Ferrovia del Renon, English: Ritten Railway) is an electric light railway which originally connected Bolzano with the Ritten plateau and today continues to operate on the plateau, connecting the villages located there. Contents 1 Track 2 History 3 Today 4 Rolling stock 5 Gallery 6 Literature 7 References // Track When opened in 1907 the line started as a streetcar at Walther Square in the center of Bolzano where it shared the track with the Bolzano Tram until the Brenner Street. From there until Maria Himmelfahrt the line was a rack railway surmounting 990m until it reached the plateau. A special rack locomotive was placed behind the streetcars and pushed them uphill. In the middle of this ascent was a siding rail so that two trains could meet. The train that went down to Bolzano produced some of the power that was necessary to get the other train up. After arriving in Maria Himmelfahrt on the Ritten plateau, the locomotive was uncoupled and the streetcars could proceed unaided on normal tracks until the final station in the village of Klobenstein. History In the 19th century the Ritten plateau was a highly frequented place by the people of Bolzano, who liked to pass their weekends there. To connect the two places, it was decided to build a rack railway and 1906 the railway engineer Josef Riehl commenced the planning of the line. In April 1907 the construction finished and the railroad was officially inaugurated on August 13, 1907. In the 1960s a road was built between Bolzano and Ritten, and after that the railway was nearly abandoned and maintenance reduced. A decision was taken to replace the rack railway with a aerial cableway. Shortly before the cableway was opened a train derailed on the rack railway and many people were seriously injured and some of them even killed. The likely cause was the sharply reduced maintenance. The rack section closed in 1966, leaving in operation the section from Maria Himmelfahrt to Klobenstein, which still operates today. It was fully renovated in 1985 and currently a new tricable aerial cableway with eight gondolas, that can carry 550 persons per hour is being constructed.[1] Today Today, the remaining line is used by tourists, locals and railway enthusiasts. The company that currently operates the line is the same company that runs all the buses in the province and also the Vinschgerbahn in the Vinschgau valley. Rolling stock In 1982 used tramcars, built in 1958, were bought in Esslingen, Germany[2] to replace some of the oldest cars and to allow longer maintenance stays for the historic cars. Today, some of the original cars are at the Tiroler Museumsbahnen museum in Innsbruck. In spring 2009, two slightly younger secondhand cars were added to the fleet with the purchase of cars 21 and 24 (built in 1975 and 1977, respectively) from the TrogenerbahnDE in St. Gallen, Switzerland.[3] Gallery Ex-Esslingen tram on the Rittnerbahn in 2006 On the line Old rack railway Klobenstein station Abandoned rack railway Engine shed of the Tiroler Museumsbahnen in Innsbruck Rack railway locomotive restaurated at the Tiroler Museumsbahnen Literature Josef Dultinger: Vergessene Vergangenheit. Verlag Dr. Rudolf Erhard, Rum 1982 Josef Dultinger: Auf schmaler Spur durch Südtirol. Verlag Dr. Rudolf Erhard, Rum 1982 Astrid von Aufschnaiter (1982). Der Ritten und seine Bahn. Bozen/Bolzano: Rittner-Bahn Komitee. References ^ http://www.leitner-lifts.com/content.asp?L=3&subc=2205&idmen=150 ^ Modern Tramway and Light Rail Transit, April 1983, p. 135. Ian Allan Ltd. (UK). ^ Tramways & Urban Transit, July 2009, p. 268. Light Rail Transit Association (UK). v • d • e Railway, Funicular and Rack railway around the Dolomites Railways Innsbruck-Verona • Bolzano-Mals • Toblach-Calalzo • Auer-Predazzo • Klausen-Plan de Gralba • Lana-Meran • Franzensfeste-Innichen • Bolzano-Collalbo • Bolzano Tram • Meraner Tram • Bruneck-Taufers • Bolzano-Kaltern Funiculars and Rack railways Mendola funicular • Lasa funicular • Virgolo funicular • Monte Neve funicular • Gardena Ronda Express funicular • Guncina funicular • Bolzano-Maria Himmelfahrt Coordinates: 46°31′41″N 11°24′24″E / 46.5281°N 11.4067°E / 46.5281; 11.4067