Wien Hauptbahnhof

Wien Hauptbahnhof
Wien Hauptbahnhof
The northern entrance to the station concourse
Location	Favoritenstraße 51, Vienna Austria
Coordinates	48°11′12″N 16°22′48″E / 48.186667°N 16.380000°E / 48.186667; 16.380000Coordinates: 48°11′12″N 16°22′48″E / 48.186667°N 16.380000°E / 48.186667; 16.380000
Owned by	Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)
Platforms	12
Tracks	16 Total 12 for ÖBB 2 for underground tram 2 for U-Bahn
Construction
Structure type	at-grade
Parking	yes
Other information
Website	Hauptbahnhof Wien
History
Opened	December 2012 (operational) December 2015 (last planned terminal)
Electrified	yes
Traffic
Passengers	40,000/day
Location
Wien Hauptbahnhof Location within Austria

Wien Hauptbahnhof (German for "Vienna Main station"; also referred to in English as "Vienna Hauptbahnhof") 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 Hbf (platforms 1 and 2) in December 2012.

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 €220m 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.