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Wien Südbahnhof c. 1875 Trieste Centrale railway station, opened in 1857. 1829: Austrian railway pioneer Franz Xaver Riepl proposed a railway connection from Vienna to the Adriatic Sea, bypassing the Eastern Alps and running via Bruck an der Leitha, Magyaróvár and Szombathely through the west edge of Hungary, and then via Maribor and Ljubljana to Trieste.
Austria-Hungary, [c] also referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Dual Monarchy or the Habsburg Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe [d] between 1867 and 1918.
Countries with defunct rail networks [88] Country Comment ISO 3166-1 Antigua and Barbuda: Had agricultural / industrial lines 028 Bahamas: Had a plantation railway 044 Barbados: Had a public railway. Has a 3 km tourist line opened in 2019. 052 Belize: Had one public railway and a number of private lines 084 Brunei
Mátra Railway in Gyöngyös. The former Austria-Hungary empire boasted a narrow-gauge network thousands of kilometres in length, most of it using Bosnian gauge 760 mm (2 ft 5 + 15 ⁄ 16 in) or 600 mm (1 ft 11 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) gauge, constructed between 1870 and 1920. Landlords, mines, agricultural and forest estates established their own branch ...
Geographical shapes from File:Europe laea location map.svg; Meridian and circles from File:Europe natural laea location map.jpg; Multiple countries. Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T): Passenger railway map of Europe, core and comprehensive networks (updated Feb. 2019) (using exactly the same geographical projection as this map). TEN-T ...
The Northern Railway in Lower Austria was completed up to the Bohemian border at Bernhardsthal, a branch-off from Olmütz (Olomouc) and Brünn (Brno) to Prague was opened in 1845/49. In 1851, construction works reached the northern imperial border with Saxony at Bodenbach, where the Northern Railway received access to the Royal Saxon State ...
The Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways (Kaiserlich-königliche österreichische Staatsbahnen, kkStB), a company serving the Austrian side of Austria-Hungary, was created in 1884 [11] and in 1923, some years after the dissolution of the empire, the national company BBÖ (Bundesbahnen Österreich) was founded.