Austria: OBB Class 1016 'Taurus' electric loco departs from Bregenz on a Lindau to Bludenz train

Austria: OBB Class 1016 electric loco (no. 1016 015) departs from Bregenz on train S1 5619, the 1425 from Lindau (Germany) to Bludenz. The train is formed of double deck 'City Wiesel' coaching stock and unusually the rear vehicle is a 'CAT' (City Airport Train) coach normally used on the shuttle service between Vienna airport and Vienna city centre.
Recorded 15 September 2020.
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Bregenz is the capital of Vorarlberg, the westernmost state of Austria. The city lies on the eastern shores of Lake Constance, the third-largest freshwater lake in Central Europe, between Switzerland in the west and Germany in the northwest.

Bregenz is located on a plateau falling in a series of terraces to the lake at the foot of Pfänder mountain. It is a junction of the arterial roads from the Rhine valley to the German Alpine foothills, with cruise ship services on Lake Constance.

It is famous for the annual summer music festival Bregenzer Festspiele, as well as the dance festival Bregenzer Spring.
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The Vorarlberg S-Bahn is a local transportion project of the Austrian state of Vorarlberg. The basis for the development is the 2006 Vorarlberg traffic plan. According to the plan, the Vorarlberg Railway line from Lindau, Germany to Bludenz, along with a spur from Bregenz to St. Margrethen, Switzerland make up the "backbone of public transportation development". Subsequently, other transport systems will be integrated into the system, including the Montafonerbahn, the St. Gallen S-Bahn (via connection from St. Margrethen), the three-country Feldkirch–Buchs railway (via Liechtenstein), and the Vorarlberg State and City Bus system.

The goal is to provide service every 15 minutes in peak hours on all major axes and a continuous half-hour service at non-peak times and for other train lines.

As of December 2005, the first Talent Engines of ÖBB were labeled with "S-Bahn Vorarlberg". In the meantime, trains of the Montafonerbahn were also designed accordingly. Meanwhile, all ÖBB S-Bahn trains run with a corresponding label. Even though the term "S-Bahn" was used of the transport association, the trains continued to be operated as regional trains. With the timetable change in December 2011, two lines (S1, S3) are operating as scheduled S-Bahn trains halfway through the week from 5 am to 11 pm. Since December 2017, the trains of the S-Bahn Vorarlberg have been operating on the route between Bregenz and Bludenz on nights before Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays.
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