Pressburger Bahn

Preßburg Railway, built between 1911 and 1914, standard-gauge electrified regional railway; tram from the square in front of Hauptzollamt station (now Wien-Mitte station) along the Donaukanal (Danube Canal) to Groß-Schwechat; from there as regional railway on the right bank of the River Danube to just before Preßburg (Bratislava, Slovakia), then again as tram to the centre of Preßburg. Nationalized in 1933, from 1936 only to the national border near Berg (on the Czechoslovak side, narrow-gauge Preßburger Straßenbahn tram), after 1945 only as far as Wolfsthal. After the tram route had been destroyed during the Second World War, the Hauptzollamt station became the starting point. Since the construction of the Schnellbahn it also runs as line S7 to the Central Cemetery, Vienna Airport, the excavation site of Carnuntum and the town of Hainburg. There are plans to again extend operations to Kittsee and Bratislava.

Literature: A. Horn, Die Preßburger Bahn, 1974.