Wien Hauptbahnhof (German for "Vienna Main station"; also referred to in English as "Vienna Hauptbahnhof" and commonly abbreviated in German as "Wien Hbf") is the main railway station in Vienna, Austria, located in the Favoriten district.
Wien Hauptbahnhof has replaced the Wien Südbahnhof terminus with a through station linking four major railway lines converging on Vienna from the North, East, West and South. The new station offers significantly improved, principally international, connectivity. By moving the main access to Südtiroler Platz, the new station is better connected to the Vienna U-Bahn system, and is also accessible by Vienna S-Bahn, tram and bus lines. The Südtiroler Platz S-Bahn station was renamed Wien Hauptbahnhof (platforms 1 and 2) in December 2012.
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Timeframe
The city council agreed to build the station 15 December 2006. Construction began in June 2007, starting with preliminary works such as the remodelling of the S-Bahn station Südtiroler Platz. In 2008, the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn stations at Südtiroler Platz were connected with each other and Südbahnhof was demolished.
In 2009, ÖBB Infrastruktur awarded a EUR220m construction contract to a consortium led by Strabag.
The bulk of Südbahnhof's services (platforms 11-19) were closed with the timetable change of 13 December 2009, with Wien Meidling railway station temporarily taking over many of Südbahnhof's services. Construction started in April 2010.
Trains began passing through the new Hauptbahhof without stopping, 6 August 2012. The station became partly operational in December 2012, with regional and S-Bahn services using platforms 9-12 and long-distance trains not stopping. It was expected that the Hauptbahnhof would fully open in December 2014, however delays in completing a footbridge meant it would not be fully operational until December 2015.
The rebuilt station has around 100 shops and restaurants as well as 600 car parking spaces. Office and residential developments are currently being built.
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Train services
The station is served by the following services:
- Intercity Express services (ICE 91) Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel - Nürnberg - Passau - Linz - St Pölten - Vienna
- Intercity Express services (ICE 91) Dortmund - Essen - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Frankfurt - Nürnberg - Passau - Linz - St Pölten - Vienna
- RailJet services Zürich - Innsbruck - Salzburg - Linz - St Pölten - Vienna - Gy?r - Budapest
- RailJet services (Frankfurt - Stuttgart -) Munich - Salzburg - Linz - St Pölten - Vienna - Gy?r - Budapest
- RailJet services Graz - Vienna - Breclav - Brno - Pardubice - Prague
- RailJet services Villach - Klagenfurt - Vienna
- EuroCity services Vienna - Gy?r - Budapest - Kiskunmajsa - Novi Sad - Belgrade
- EuroCity services Vienna - Gy?r - Budapest - Debrecen
- EuroCity services Vienna - Breclav - Prerov - Ostrava - Bohumin - Katowice - Warsaw (- Gdansk - Gdynia)
- EuroCity services Vienna - Klagenfurt - Villach - Udine - Treviso - Venice
- EuroCity services Vienna - Graz - Maribor - Zagreb
- Night train (Russian Railways) Nice - Milan - Innsbruck - Vienna - Warsaw - Minsk - Moscow
- Nightjet services Vienna - Klagenfurt - Villach - Bologna - Florence - Rome
- Nightjet services Vienna - Klagenfurt - Villach - Verona - Milan
- Nightjet services Vienna - Linz - Salzburg - Villach - Udine - Venice
- Nightjet services Vienna - Klagenfurt - Villach - Bologna - Florence - Pisa - Livorno
- Nightjet services Zurich - Feldkirch - Innsbruck - Vienna
- Nightjet services Hamburg - Hanover - Linz - Vienna
- Nightjet services Düsseldorf - Cologne - Koblenz - Frakfurt - Linz - Vienna
- Nightjet services Bregenz - Feldkirch - Innsbruck - Vienna
- EuroNight services Berlin - Dresden - Prague - Vienna
- EuroNight services Munich - Salzburg - Linz - Vienna - Budapest
- EuroNight services Vienna - Breclav - Prerov - Ostrava - Bohumin - Katowice - Warsaw / Krakow
- EuroNight services Vienna - Kosice
- D Train Vienna - Breclav - Prerov - Ostrava - Bohumin
Public transport
The station is served by the following municipal public transport services:
- U-Bahn:
- Tram: 18, D, O
- Bus: 13A, 69A
Tram D is a small walk from the main entrance and can be accessed from section E of platforms 3 to 12. The D station is called "Hauptbahnhof Ost".
Construction
References
Notes
Bibliography
External links
- Hauptbahnhof Wien English-language official website of the project
- Building proposals (in German)
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