From Prague to Vienna will be 30 minutes faster thanks to the new station
Vienna - Trains from Prague to Vienna will begin stopping at Vienna's main railway station starting mid-December, which the Austrians began constructing in the capital eight years ago. The journey will be shortened by half an hour to four hours and ten minutes due to the redevelopment of the Vienna hub. However, the new station has a key benefit for Vienna in that all trains can not only enter the city center but also pass through it, said Vinzenz Friedel Kroner, the project manager of the redevelopment, to Czech journalists at a presentation today.
The new station was built on the site of the two terminal stations, Ostbahnhof and Südbahnhof, where the last train arrived in 2009. Since then, all trains had to be accommodated by the surrounding stations. "Talk about solving the Vienna hub began as early as 1899, but it took more than 100 years for work to actually begin," Kroner stated.
Regional trains began stopping at the main station earlier, and long-distance trains will join them in December. Everything will be completely finished next year; workers are still on-site completing various minor details. The cost of the construction has climbed to one billion euros (27.5 billion crowns). However, the station occupies only half of the released 100-hectare area. The other half has been purchased by investors. "Investment, including the station, is between four and five billion euros, and it is expected that the area should be developed by 2025," remarked Kroner.
The new Vienna station has been contemplated for about a century, and a similar timeline applies to the solution of the Brno railway hub. In the case of Brno, two variants of the new station are being considered, each estimated to cost around 20 billion crowns. If the station were moved 800 meters south, a new district would effectively be created in Brno as well.
The new Vienna station has five platforms with ten tracks on the first floor, and a double-track route for the metro and suburban trains on the ground floor. Both the ground and first floors contain shopping galleries, and there is a parking lot with 800 spaces and technical facilities in two underground levels. Designers anticipate that when the station is fully operational, 1000 trains will pass through it daily, and 100,000 people will pass through.
Like most large construction projects, the new station has stirred controversy, which is why the Austrian railways established an information point at the station, known as Bahnorama, along with a unique observation tower. "To avoid larger protests, we continually informed people about what was happening and what would happen. We held monthly meetings with citizens of the local Vienna district," Kroner explained. However, the observation tower is only temporary, and the last visitors will have the chance to look at the station and Vienna from above in December.
The new station was built on the site of the two terminal stations, Ostbahnhof and Südbahnhof, where the last train arrived in 2009. Since then, all trains had to be accommodated by the surrounding stations. "Talk about solving the Vienna hub began as early as 1899, but it took more than 100 years for work to actually begin," Kroner stated.
Regional trains began stopping at the main station earlier, and long-distance trains will join them in December. Everything will be completely finished next year; workers are still on-site completing various minor details. The cost of the construction has climbed to one billion euros (27.5 billion crowns). However, the station occupies only half of the released 100-hectare area. The other half has been purchased by investors. "Investment, including the station, is between four and five billion euros, and it is expected that the area should be developed by 2025," remarked Kroner.
The new Vienna station has been contemplated for about a century, and a similar timeline applies to the solution of the Brno railway hub. In the case of Brno, two variants of the new station are being considered, each estimated to cost around 20 billion crowns. If the station were moved 800 meters south, a new district would effectively be created in Brno as well.
The new Vienna station has five platforms with ten tracks on the first floor, and a double-track route for the metro and suburban trains on the ground floor. Both the ground and first floors contain shopping galleries, and there is a parking lot with 800 spaces and technical facilities in two underground levels. Designers anticipate that when the station is fully operational, 1000 trains will pass through it daily, and 100,000 people will pass through.
Like most large construction projects, the new station has stirred controversy, which is why the Austrian railways established an information point at the station, known as Bahnorama, along with a unique observation tower. "To avoid larger protests, we continually informed people about what was happening and what would happen. We held monthly meetings with citizens of the local Vienna district," Kroner explained. However, the observation tower is only temporary, and the last visitors will have the chance to look at the station and Vienna from above in December.
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