Villach Hauptbahnhof

Villach Hauptbahnhof
Station building
Location	Bahnhofplatz 9500 Villach Austria
Coordinates	46°37′6″N 13°50′54″E / 46.61833°N 13.84833°ECoordinates: 46°37′6″N 13°50′54″E / 46.61833°N 13.84833°E
Owned by	Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)
Operated by	Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)
Platforms	12
Location
Villach Hauptbahnhof Location within Austria

Villach Hauptbahnhof (translated as Villach Central Station^[1]) is the main railway station in Villach, the second largest city in the Austrian state of Carinthia.^[2] It primarily serves as a passenger station and is an important junction within the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) network.

Operational usage

Railway tracks

The station has twelve tracks, four of them sidings, and a motorail terminal. It is linked with both to the Southern Railway line to Vienna and the Tauern Railway line towards Salzburg.

Villach is served by Austrian Railjet, InterCity and Regional-Express trains, as well as by the Carinthian S-Bahn rapid transit system. The station also hosts international EuroCity and EuroNight trains leading to destinations like Munich, Ljubljana and Zagreb, or to Venezia Santa Lucia via Tarvisio Boscoverde and Udine.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:

• RailJet services (Lienz -) Villach - Klagenfurt - Vienna
• EuroCity services Klagenfurt - Villach - Salzburg - Munich (- Dortmund/Frankfurt)
• EuroCity services Vienna - Győr - Budapest - Kiskunmajsa - Novi Sad - Belgrade
• EuroCity services Zagreb - Ljubljana - Villach
• EuroNight services Rome - Florence - Bologna (Milan - Verona) - Venice - Villach - Klagenfurt - Vienna
• EuroNight services Zagreb - Ljubljana - Villach - Salzburg - Munich

Preceding station		ÖBB		Following station
Spittal-Millstättersee toward Lienz in Osttirol		Railjet		Velden am Wörther See toward Wien Hbf
Klagenfurt Hbf Terminus		EuroCity		Spittal-Millstättersee toward Munich Hbf
Tarvisio Boscoverde toward Venezia Santa Lucia		EuroCity		Klagenfurt Hbf toward Wien Hbf
Terminus		EuroCity		Faak am See toward Zagreb Hbf
Tarvisio Boscoverde toward Roma Termini		EuroNight		Klagenfurt Hbf toward Wien Hbf
Tarvisio Boscoverde toward Milano Centrale		EuroNight		Klagenfurt Hbf toward Wien Hbf

References

1. Villach at Rail Europe. Accessed on 14 Aug 2013
2. ÖBB travel portal: Stations with Luggage lockers "Upper Austria: Linz Hauptbahnhof, Wels Hauptbahnhof, .. Salzburg Hauptbahnhof, ..Graz Hauptbahnhof, Leoben Hauptbahnhof, ...Carinthia / East Tyrol: Klagenfurt Hauptbahnhof, Villach Hauptbahnhof, Tyrol: Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof, .. "

External links

Media related to Hauptbahnhof Villach at Wikimedia Commons

This article is currently being translated from the German language version. Further paragraphs will be published soon.