Villach main station
| Villach main station | |
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.jpg) The main entrance to the station concourse from Bahnhofplatz in May 2015
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| Location in the network |
Through station branch station |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| abbreviation | Vb |
| IBNR | 8100147 |
| opening | May 30, 1864 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Villach |
| Place / district | Inner city |
| state | Carinthia |
| Country | Austria |
| Coordinates | 46 ° 37 '6 " N , 13 ° 50' 54" E |
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| List of train stations in Austria | |
The main station Villach is a through station in the city of Villach in the Austrian state of Carinthia . It is the junction of the single-track Rudolfsbahn with the double-track Drautalbahn and primarily functions as a passenger station and is an important junction in the Austrian railway network.
history
On May 30, 1864 , today's main station was opened under the name Villach Station . The start of operation of the station in charge of the railway technical development of Carinthia one . The rail expansion reached Carinthia on June 1, 1863 . The route initially led from today's Maribor (then Marburg) through the lower Drautal via Bleiburg and Klagenfurt to Villach, thus representing the first connection Carinthia to the Austrian-Hungarian railway network. Before the railway line, stagecoaches were the only means of public transport for the residents of the region, the entire movement of goods was carried out with horse-drawn vehicles.
From 1868 the station was run under the name Villach Südbahnhof , in the same year the Rudolfsbahn reached Carinthia. With the expansion of the line via Spittal and Lienz to Franzenfeste on November 20, 1871 , the connection to the main lines of the Southern Railway Company (Vienna - Trieste and Kufstein - Ala) followed. On July 7, 1909 , the name was changed back to Villach Station . From May 15, 1938 , the station bears its current name Villach Main Station .
The route extensions at a time overview
| Opening date | route |
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| June 1, 1863 | Maribor - Bleiburg Klagenfurt |
| May 30, 1864 | Klagenfurt - Villach |
| October 19, 1868 | St. Michael - St. Veit / Glan - Feldkirchen - Villach |
| November 20, 1871 | Villach - Spittal - Lienz - Innichen |
| November 25, 1873 | Villach - Arnoldstein - Tarvisio |
| November 25, 1873 | Villach State Railway Station |
| July 7, 1909 | Connection loop Villach train station - Villach State train station (eastern Draurücke) |
| October 1, 1906 | Villach / Warmbad - Rosenbach - Jesenice |
| 5th October 1989 | Large shunting yard Villach Süd with access routes |
| July 7, 1909 | Bad Gastein - Mallnitz - Spittal |
Station parts
From an operational point of view, Villach main station has several parts of the station (timetable reference points), these are:
| Name of the operating location | Abbreviation | comment | Location in km ( Drautalbahn ) | Location in km ( Rudolfsbahn ) |
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| Villach main station | Vb | Passenger station | 164.264 (route 413 01) | 377,620 (route 413 14) |
| Villach main station car loading point | Vba | Car loading | 376,200 (route 408 11) | |
| Villach Hauptbahnhof-Ostbf | Vbo | Freight depot | 163.450 (route 413 01) | 376,800 (route 408 01) |
| Villach Hauptbahnhof-Draubrücke | Vbd | Branch point | 000.923 (route 415 01) | 000,177 (route 413 01) |
| Villach Westbahnhof | Vf | Stop, traction location | 379.139 (route 413 14) | 001,071 (route 413 01) |
In addition, the following stations outside the main train station are remotely controlled by the electronic interlocking of Villach main station:
| Name of the operating location | Abbreviation | Tracks | Location in km |
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| Villach St. Ruprecht | Ru | 514, 516, 518 | 373,620 (route 408 01) |
| Abzw Gummern 2 | Gu Z2 | 33, 35-36 | 166.433 (route 222 01) |
Location and existing infrastructure
The main station has twelve tracks with platforms . Four of them are butt tracks that are basically only used to park wagons . For another track equipped with a platform, the freight train loop, in the course of planned construction work on the catenary systems of the Westkopf, the operating license was issued as platform 8 in autumn 2009; in passenger traffic , it is occasionally (during construction work) for tied-through trains from the Gailtalbahn to Klagenfurt used, many freight trains continue to bypass the station on this track, which is operationally known as track 20, in order to relieve the main station.
The points and signals of the station are remote controlled by an electronic signal box . At the beginning of the 1990s, the station and the track and safety systems were completely renewed. On the occasion of these renovations, the station concourse was also renovated, the underpass enlarged and elevators and escalators installed.
In the years 2007 to 2008 the station was provided with a new washing facility for passenger coaches located next to track 383.
Immediately after platform 1 there is a small car loading point, where cars are loaded to Vienna and Feldkirch . In the north of the station is the freight train loop, which can be used to bypass the station. To the east is the east part of the station with a loading point for rail express goods, the night-time express freight trains also have their end point there. In addition, international freight trains that are severely delayed at times are temporarily parked in this area after they are not taken over by neighboring railways. A little further to the east is the station's second large car loading point, which is served by car trains from Germany , Greece and Turkey .
All passenger trains stop at Villach main station . As part of the Carinthian cycle , the range of local trains was significantly increased when the timetable was changed in December 2008 and the services were largely synchronized.
At the station forecourt is the bus station where you can change to all regional and city buses, there is also a taxi stand. The intercity buses to Venice operated by the Austrian Federal Railways also stop at the station forecourt in the area of the bus station.
The traction location, with a maintenance hall for passenger coaches and a locomotive shed, is located in the Westbahnhof section of the station, which is on the other side of the Drau and about one kilometer from the main station.
passenger traffic
| Train type | route | Clock frequency | |
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| railjet |
Klagenfurt main station - Leoben main station - Bruck an der Mur - Wiener Neustadt main station - Vienna main station Tarvisio Boscoverde - Udine - Venezia Santa Lucia |
2 trains every 2 hours |
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EuroCity InterCity |
Spittal an der Drau - Schwarzach-St. Veit - Bischofshofen - Salzburg Hauptbahnhof, individual trains continue to Vienna Hauptbahnhof or Vienna / Munich / Frankfurt am Main / Dortmund Airport |
Every 2 hours |
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| EuroCity | Klagenfurt | Every 2 hours | |
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EuroCity express train |
Ljubljana / Zagreb / Belgrade | several times a day | |
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EuroNight (EN) Nightjet (NJ) |
Vienna / Munich - Salzburg - Ljubljana - Zagreb / Rijeka Vienna / Munich - Salzburg - Venice Vienna - Klagenfurt / Munich - Salzburg - Verona - Milan / Florence - Rome Vienna (car train system) - Florence - Livorno Zurich - Innsbruck / Schwarzach-St.Veit - Ljubljana - Zagreb - Beograd |
one pair of trains each | |
| Intercity bus | Udine Venice |
three times a day, twice a day |
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| Regional train | Spittal - Millstätter See - ( Mallnitz - Obervellach ) | individual trains | |
| Regional Express | Klagenfurt - ( St. Veit an der Glan - Friesach ) | individual trains | |
| Regional train | Arnoldstein | separate
Trains |
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FUC
Regional train |
Tarvisio - Udine - Trieste Centrale | two trains | |
| S-Bahn line 1 | Spittal-Millstätter See - Lienz - ( Sillian ) | 1 hour intervals | |
| S-Bahn line 1 | St. Veit an der Glan Friesach |
30-minute intervals, 1-hour intervals |
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| S-Bahn line 2 | Rosenbach | 1 hour intervals | |
| S-Bahn line 2 |
Feldkirchen St. Veit an der Glan |
1 hour intervals 2 hours intervals |
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| S-Bahn line 4 | Hermagor | 1 hour intervals | |
| S-Bahn line 41 | Tarvisio Boscoverde | individual trains | |
future
As part of the urban renewal of the Drau / Bahnhof, the forecourt was rebuilt by the city of Villach between 2008 and 2010. In 2008 a new underground car park was built, and the redesign of the bus station and the surrounding business areas were also completed.
As part of the economic stimulus package of the Austrian federal government , the Draubrücke bridges, which connect the main and western train station sections, were renewed in 2011. During the closure of a track, this led to all freight trains traveling from Tarvisio or Jesenice in the direction of Spittal an der Drau via the main station or, if there was a lack of space, the eastern section of the station.
literature
- Dietmar Rauter, Herwig Rainer: A traffic route opens up the Alps: the side streets of the kk priv. Crown Prince Rudolf-Bahn . Mlakar, Judenburg 1998, ISBN 3-900289-36-0 .
Web links
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book presentation ÖBB: 140 years of railways in Villach. Retrieved August 13, 2019 .
- ↑ City of Villach: urban renewal of the Drau / train station by the city of Villach ( memento of the original from October 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on May 3, 2009)
- ↑ Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology : Framework plan for the Carinthian stimulus package (PDF file, 40 KB, accessed on May 3, 2009)
| Previous station | Carinthia S-Bahn | Next station | ||
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| Puch ← Lienz |
S1 | Villach Seebach Friesach → |
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| Villach Westbahnhof ← Rosenbach |
S2 | Villach Landskron St. Veit an der Glan → |
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| Villach Westbahnhof ← Hermagor |
S4 | - | ||
| Villach Westbahnhof
← Tarvisio Boscoverde |
S41 | |||