Villach Hauptbahnhof

Villach Hauptbahnhof
Villach Hauptbahnhof
	Station building
General information
Location	Bahnhofplatz; 9500 Villach; Austria
Coordinates	46°37′6″N 13°50′54″E
Owned by	Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)
Operated by	Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)
Line(s)	Rosen Valley Railway; Drava Valley Railway;
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
Railjet services Vienna - Klagenfurt - Villach - Udine - Venice
EuroCity services Klagenfurt - Villach - Salzburg - Munich (-Dortmund/Frankfurt)
EuroCity services Villach - Ljubljana - Zagreb
EuroNight services (Belgrade-) Zagreb - Ljubljana - Villach - Innsbruck - Zurich
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 towards Lienz in Osttirol		Railjet	Velden am Wörther See towards Wien Hbf
Klagenfurt Hbf Terminus		Railjet	Tarvisio Boscoverde towards Venezia Santa Lucia
EuroCity
Klagenfurt Hbf Terminus		EuroCity	Spittal-Millstättersee toward Munich Hbf
Terminus		EuroCity	Faak am See toward Zagreb Glavni kolodvor
EuroNight
Tarvisio Boscoverde toward Roma Termini		EuroNight	Klagenfurt Hbf toward Wien Hbf
Tarvisio Boscoverde toward Milano Porta Garibaldi		EuroNight	Klagenfurt Hbf toward Wien Hbf
Preceding station	Optima Tours		Following station
Terminus		Optima Express (de)	Dobova towards Edirne

References

Villach at Rail Europe. Accessed on 14 Aug 2013
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, .. "

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[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, .. "