!!!Ostbahn

Railway, Eastern, originally the private "Raab Railway", 
connecting Vienna to Bruck an der Leitha (1840-1846) and from 855 to 
Gyoer (then Raab), later extended to Budapest and merged with the 
(private) "State Railway Company" (Staatseisenbahngesellschaft, 
STEG), which, in 1870, opened the "Northern Lines" from 
Vienna's Eastern Railway Station (Ostbahnhof) to Marchegg via Stadlau 
(and to Bratislava = then Pressburg) and to Mistelbach and Laa an der 
Thaya (and to Brno = then Bruenn); nationalised in 1909. Cross-border 
traffic from Laa into Moravia was abolished in 1945. The Eastern 
Railway Station (or National Railway Station) in Vienna´s 
10%%sup th/%  district, built in 1870 to replace the old Raab Station, 
was destroyed during World War II and merged with the neighbouring 
Southern Railway Station in the course of post-war reconstruction.


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