The Eastern Railway (german: Ostbahn), formerly also known as the Vienna-Raab railway (german: Wien-Raaber Bahn), is a two-track, electrified railway line that runs from
Vienna
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towards
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia a ...
. The name ''Eastern Railway'' refers to several branches of the line as well. The previous western terminus of the railway line in Vienna,
Wien Südbahnhof
Wien Südbahnhof (German for ''Vienna South Station'') was Vienna's largest railway terminus. It closed in December 2009 and was demolished in 2010 to be replaced with a new station, Wien Hauptbahnhof. It was located in Favoriten, in the south ...
, has been replaced by the new
Hauptbahnhof
Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...
, which allows for continuous east-west traffic and connects the Eastern Railway directly to the
Western Railway and
Southern Railway.
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Wien-Südbahnhof Photogallery and documentation about the Vienna Southern Railway Station (Wien-Südbahnhof) by Martin Frey and Philipp Graf
Railway lines in Austria
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