Wiener Neustadt Hauptbahnhof

Wiener Neustadt Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in Wiener Neustadt, in the federal state of Lower Austria, south of Vienna. With over 700 trains and 25,000 passengers each day, the station is the busiest in Lower Austria.An important stop on both the South railway (Südbahn) and the Aspangbahn, the station is also a junction for the branch lines to Gutenstein, Payerbach and Mattersburg, the Pottendorfer line to Pottendorf-Landegg, and the Vienna S-Bahn Stammstrecke (main line) to Floridsdorf. All trains on the Südbahn stop here, as do all trains on the branch lines originating here.The station, which was completely reconstructed between 1997 and 2003, is also the starting point for most city bus lines in Wiener Neustadt. Directly connected to the station building is a branch of the Österreichische Post.HistoryWith the opening of the railway line between Vienna and Wiener Neustadt on 20 June 1841, the Wiener Neustadt station also came into operation. Ever since then, the station has been an important transportation hub in Lower Austria.By the end of the 20th century, the old two-storey station building (the second floor was a restaurant) was largely run down and was widely seen as a blot on the city landscape. It was also inconveniently laid out and equipped. For example, to get to the platforms, it was necessary to leave the building to go to the underpass, and there were no escalators or elevators at all.