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The Austrian Eastern Railway (
German
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''Ostbahn'') was the name of a former
railway
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company during the time of the
Austro-Hungarian monarchy
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. Today, the term is still used to describe certain railway lines ( Eastern railway) which were formerly operated by that company.
The ''Ostbahn'' was founded as the private ''Raaber Bahn'' (or ''Wien-Raaber-Eisenbahn''). The line from
Vienna
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to
Bruck an der Leitha
Bruck an der Leitha ( bar, label=Central Bavarian, Bruck aun da Leitha; "Bridge on the Leitha") is a town in the state of Lower Austria of Austria on the border of Burgenland, marked by the Leitha river. In 2018 it had a population of around 8,00 ...
was constructed between 1840 and 1846. It was extended to
Győr
Győr ( , ; german: Raab, links=no; names of European cities in different languages: E-H#G, names in other languages) is the main city of northwest Hungary, the capital of Győr-Moson-Sopron County and Western Transdanubia, Western Transdanubia ...
(German ''Raab'') in 1855 and later to
Budapest
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. Later it merged with another private railway company, the ''Staatseisenbahngesellschaft'', which operated the line from Vienna to ''Pressburg'' (now
Bratislava
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), and the line via
Mistelbach ''For the town in Germany, see Mistelbach, Bavaria.''
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and
Laa an der Thaya
Laa an der Thaya is a town in the Mistelbach District of Lower Austria in Austria, near the Czech border. The population in 2016 was 6224.
Geography
The town is located in the northern Weinviertel region, near the Thaya river, directly at the ...
to
Brno
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.
The company was nationalized in 1909. After 1945, the service between Laa and Brno was disconnected. The Vienna East Station from which the lines operated had been destroyed in
World War II
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and was merged with the nearby
Vienna South Station
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during reconstruction.
External links
Wien-Südbahnhof Photogallery and documentation about the Vienna Southern Railway Station (Wien-Südbahnhof) by Martin Frey and Philipp Graf
Eastern
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