Salzburg S-Bahn
The underground Salzburger Lokalbahn station.
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| Locale | Salzburg, Austria | ||
| Transit type | S-Bahn | ||
| Number of lines | 5 | ||
| Headquarters | Salzburg, Austria | ||
| Website | Projekt S-Bahn Salzburg (German) | ||
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Salzburg AG Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) Berchtesgadener Land Bahn (BLB). |
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| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) (standard gauge) | ||
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The Salzburg S-Bahn is a large transport project in and around Salzburg in the Euroregion of Salzburg–Berchtesgadener Land–Traunstein, which crosses the border between Austria and Germany. Its S-Bahn network has been partially in operation since 2004 and its first stage is expected to be completed in 2014.
The railway network comprises five lines, which are operated by three operators: Salzburg AG, Austrian Federal Railways (Österreichische Bundesbahnen, ÖBB) and Berchtesgadener Land Bahn (BLB).
Currently, line S 2 ends at Salzburg Hauptbahnhof, as the western branch (Salzburg–Freilassing) and Salzburg Hauptbahnhof is not yet fully developed for the S-Bahn operation. To ensure that it has sufficient capacity for a 15-minute service, a third track is being built on the line between Salzburg Taxham Europark and Freilassing. As part of this work, which started in the spring of 2010, a new bridge is being built over the Saalach for the third track. A new railway bridge has already been built over the Salzach in the course of the building of a third track in central Salzburg from Salzburg Hauptbahnhof to Taxham.
The construction of the first station on the western branch (Salzburg Taxham Europark) began in the spring of 2005 and the station became operational in June 2006 and opened with the Europark, one of the largest shopping centres in Western Austria, and serves a school of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, the Red Bull Arena and a large number of households. Construction of the stations of Salzburg Mülln-Altstadt and Salzburg Aiglhof began in autumn of 2005 and they were opened on 12 December 2009. Thus the Paracelsus Private Medical University of Salzburg (PMU) and the Salzburg State Hospital will receive a connection to the new S-Bahn. Both stations are also stops on the Salzburg trolley bus network and the bus routes of Albus Salzburg Verkehrsbetrieb (the Salzburg municipal bus company) and some regional bus services.
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