Wien Heiligenstadt railway station

• Franz- Josef -Bahn
• Vorortelinie

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The Vienna Heiligenstadt station is a transfer hubs in the north of Vienna. He is a breakpoint on the Franz Josef Railway and the suburban line. It operate regional and fast trains to the Waldviertel and Euregio Trains to Czech Republic, in the opposite direction, it is only two stops to the Franz Josef station. It keep the S-Bahn S40 ( direction of Franz Josef station and Tulln, St. Pölten) and S45 ( direction Handelskai and Hütteldorf ), the underground line U4 and regional and urban bus lines. The station stands as well as large sections of the suburban line under monument protection.

History

The Heiligenstadt station was originally designed by Otto Wagner. Here ended the suburbs, belt and Danube channel line of the Vienna Stadtbahn.

Until the extension to Floridsdorfer bridge in May 1993 Holy city was the end point of the line S45.

By April 1996, the line underground line U6 went to Heiligenstadt, by extending to Floridsdorf the route to the Holy town was abandoned. To Franz Josef train and U4 are now rising to the newly built station spittelau. Subsequently, the platforms of the U6 for the operation of the U4 were rebuilt and a shift system with a driverless return trip.

Concourse

In the station hall some shops, the advance ticket sales and ticket offices of the Vienna Transport ÖBB are housed. The disposals of U4 is a bakery. There are also ticket machines.

Platforms

The station has five platforms, of which are used but usually only four. On the platforms 1 and 2 hold the traits of the Franz- Josef -Bahn, on the platforms 3 and 4 that of the S45. The head platform 5 is only used for special trains. The U4 has four separate platforms.

Rebuilding

The station was modernized as part of the railway station between December 2006 and July 2008 and for the disabled.

The ÖBB Infrastructure Construction AG was able to May 2008 to redesign to an end. Officially, the refurbished train station on 18 July 2008, exactly 110 years after its first use, reopened.

Here is a table of the platform lengths after the conversion:

Gallery

Concourse

Pedestrian tunnel with escalator after completed rehabilitation measures

View of the tunnel people

The U4 train on track 2

4b platform during construction work.

Platform 4b after the conversion work.