Bridges and Viaducts in Austria — 57 Listed by Length

• 57entries listed
• 1964–2007openings span
• 52.73 kmtotal length

The record table

How this archive measures: lengths, bores, dates and ordering

How this table is compiled

Dated entries run from 1964 to 2007, and the busiest decade is the 1980s with 24 recorded openings. Read down the length (m) column, the 57 values run from 502 m to 2 607 m with a midpoint at 741 m; the spread rather than the maximum is what says how uneven this set is.

Roughly 2 of the dated entries opened in this century, which is a rough measure of how much of the network is recent. The captions name 6 distinct places and structures — Leonhard, Gmünd and Donau among them — and those names are the index into the length tables where each is recorded with its own figure.

The three longest entries alone account for 6.45 km of the 52.73 km on this page, which is 12 per cent of the total from 3 of 57 rows. The shorter half of the table totals 17.24 km against 35.49 km for the longer half, from the same number of rows.

Where one of these 57 lengths disagrees with an operator's own figure for Austria, the table keeps the published value and notes the difference instead of averaging the two. The 57 rows for Austria are ordered by length, not by date, so the 2007 opening sits well down the table without being any less current.

Lengths for Austria are recorded in metres which is how the operators publish them and why the shortest entry here reads as 502 m and not a rounded figure. The longest entry is 5.2 times the shortest and 3.5 times the median, which is the quickest measure of how uneven the table is.

Reading the figures

The dated entries carry 22 distinct opening years across 43 years, and the median opening year is 1980. The material on this page is held in 6 captions rather than in running text, 53 words of it, each written against the image or row it belongs to by the compiler who put the page together.

The dated entries fall across 22 different years, which is a rough measure of whether this was a sustained programme or a handful of separate schemes. The viaduct/bridge column names 57 distinct entries on this page, Krems - Pressingberg and Schönberg-Matrei among them, each traceable to the operator or administration record it was taken from.

The table on this page runs to 57 rows and records Viaduct/Bridge, Length (m), Date of opening, Kreis and Section-Notes for each of them, which is the shape the original compiler chose rather than one imposed here. A long viaduct on modest piers can therefore outrank a shorter but far more dramatic single-span crossing.

The table below lists 57 entries with a recorded length, each giving a name, a length in metres and, where documented, the year of opening. The ten longest average 1.68 km against 0.76 km for everything below them, and that ratio is the clearest thing this table says about the distribution.

48 of the 57 rows carry an entry in the section-notes column — 84 per cent of the table — and that column is where the qualifications live: tube counts, closures, boundaries and the reason a figure reads the way it does. Bridges and viaducts are listed by total deck length, not by main span.