!!!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.


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