Lower Austrian Southwest Railways

The Niederösterreichische Südwestbahnen ( NÖSWB ) were supposed to connect these two lines after the completion of the southern and western lines. They finally comprised the Leobersdorf – Hainfeld – St. Pölten (Leobersdorfer Bahn) with the Traisen – Schrambach branch line, the Wittmannsdorf – Piesting – Gutenstein line (Gutensteinerbahn) and the Pöchlarn – Scheibbs – Kienberg-Gaming line .

The first sections were opened in 1877. As early as 1878, the state took over the originally private kkpriv. Lower Austrian Südwestbahnen as kk Niederösterreichische Staatsbahnen . The abbreviation "SWB" can still be found on the boundary stones of the railways.

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literature

• Hans Sternhart, Friedrich Slezak: Lower Austrian Southwest Railways . Verlag Slezak, Vienna 1977, ISBN 3-900134-35-9 (International Archive for Locomotive History; Vol. 25)
• Johann Kohn:  Iron bridge structures of the Lower Austrian Southwest Railways. In:  Allgemeine Bauzeitung , year 1879, pp. 17–23 (online at ANNO ).