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Train routes operated by ÖBB
25 routes · high-speed 1 · classic 13 · night train 4 · scenic 7
ÖBB runs 25 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 7,615 km of railway across 6 countries. The longest is the Nightjet Vienna–Rome at 1,180 km; the fastest is the Railjet Wien–Lienz, running up to 250 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1854. 9 of its routes cross an international border.
The company itself dates to 1919, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from ÖBB's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q83822 ↗
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- 25
- Total length
- 7,615 km
- Fastest
- Railjet Wien–Lienz · 250 km/h
- Oldest line here
- 1854
- Company founded
- 1919
- Type
- railway company
- Countries
- Austria, Italy, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Hungary
- Longest
- Nightjet Vienna–Rome · 1,180 km
High-speed (1)
- Koralmbahn
Austria’s game-changer of December 2025: the 33 km Koralm Tunnel cuts Graz–Klagenfurt from nearly three hours to 45 minutes, forging a new Baltic–Adriatic high-speed axis.
Wikipedia ↗
Classic (13)
- Railjet Vienna–Bregenz
The full west-bound railjet: Salzburg, Innsbruck, the Arlberg tunnel and out at the Bodensee — Austria end to end in one train.
Wikipedia ↗ - Railjet Wien–Venezia
One seat Vienna to Venice: over the Semmering, through the new Koralm tunnel to Klagenfurt and Villach, then the 1879 Pontebbana across the Julian Alps.
- Railjet Wien–Lienz
Osttirol’s capital link restored: two railjets a day over the Semmering, through the new Koralm tunnel and up the Drau valley — a child of the Dec 2025 timetable.
Wikipedia ↗ - Railjet · Deutsches Eck
Tyrol to Salzburg the fast way — through Bavaria: Austrian expresses cut the German corner nonstop via Rosenheim, Alps on the horizon the whole run.
Wikipedia ↗ - S6 Lienz–Villach
Down the Drau from East Tyrol into Carinthia, Lienz past Oberdrauburg and Spittal to Villach, on the original Drautalbahn of 20 November 1871: an S-Bahn since 2015, renumbered S6 in December 2025.
Wikipedia ↗ - Vorarlbergbahn
Vorarlberg end to end: from Lindau on Lake Constance up the Rhine valley and the Walgau to Bludenz, where the Arlberg and Montafon lines begin.
Wikipedia ↗ - Hausruckbahn
The northern half of the Salzkammergutbahn, opened on 23 October 1877 by the Crown Prince Rudolf company to bring Hausruck coal down to the salt pans of Ebensee and Ischl.
Wikipedia ↗ - Innkreisbahn
Neumarkt-Kallham to Braunau opened on 20 December 1870 and the bridge over the Inn to Simbach on 1 June 1871; from 1883 to 1897 the Orient Express took this way between Vienna and Munich.
Wikipedia ↗ - Szombathely–Szentgotthárd railway
The old Hungarian Western Railway toward Graz, now the through run from Szombathely to Szentgotthárd on the Austrian border.
Wikipedia (HU) ↗ - S4 Villach–Hermagor
South out of Villach to Arnoldstein, then west up the Gail valley to Hermagor, on a branch opened on 11 August 1894 and ridden by 310 people on its first train.
Wikipedia (DE) ↗ - Franz-Josefs-Bahn
The first 22 km of the line to Gmünd and Prague: the Vienna end opened in 1870, once the delayed stretch in from Eggenburg was finished, and ran as part of the Stadtbahn from 1898 to 1925.
Wikipedia ↗ - Triesting Valley Line
Nineteen kilometres down the Triesting out of the Vienna Woods to the main line at Leobersdorf, the surviving stub of a branch the Leobersdorfer Bahn opened as far as Kaumberg in September 1877.
- Tauernschleuse
Salzburg to Carinthia without the pass: the car shuttle through the 1909 Tauern tunnel, hourly under the Alpine main ridge from Böckstein to Mallnitz.
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Night train (4)
- Nightjet Vienna–Rome
Board in Vienna after dinner, cross the Carinthian Alps and the Venetian plain by night, and wake rolling into Rome, a sleeper between two imperial capitals. From Villach south it runs coupled with the Munich portion — one train.
Wikipedia ↗ - Nightjet
First route to get ÖBB’s new-generation Nightjets in 2023. Mini Cabin pods for solo travellers and 230 km/h sleeper stock.
Wikipedia ↗ - Nightjet Munich–Rome
Board after dinner in Bavaria, wake to Tuscan hills: mini-cabins and wireless charging on ÖBB’s newest sleepers, crossing the Tauern by night. From Villach south it runs coupled with the Vienna portion — one train into Rome.
Wikipedia ↗ - Nightjet
The founding route of the Nightjet brand: over the Arlberg while you sleep, Alps at both ends.
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Scenic (7)
- Semmeringbahn
The world’s first true mountain railway (1854) and a UNESCO site: 16 viaducts built before the age of dynamite.
Wikipedia ↗ - Tauern Railway
Franz Joseph’s 1909 crossing of the Hohe Tauern: stone viaducts up the Gastein spa valley to an 8.4 km tunnel at 1,226 m.
Wikipedia ↗ - REX 92 Wiener Neustadt–Fehring
Planned in 1873 as the Vienna to Thessaloniki railway and killed by the crash that spring, then built in pieces anyway and joined up only in 1910. Wiener Neustadt over the Wechsel to Fehring.
- Rudolfsbahn
Through the Gesäuse on the old Kronprinz Rudolf line, Amstetten to Selzthal in two hours and five by Waidhofen and Hieflau. One train on Saturdays and two on Sundays; on weekdays you change.
Wikipedia ↗ - Salzkammergutbahn
Austria’s lake district by rail: from Attnang-Puchheim along the Traunsee past the imperial spa of Bad Ischl to the shore opposite Hallstatt, the picture-postcard village mirrored in its emerald lake.
Wikipedia ↗ - Pyhrn railway
Climbs from Linz over the Pyhrn Pass to Selzthal, tying the Westbahn to the Enns valley through the northern limestone Alps.
Wikipedia ↗ - Mühlkreisbahn
Out of Linz on the north bank of the Danube and up into the Mühlviertel towards the Bohemian border, an hour and a half on a branch opened in November 1900.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does ÖBB run?
25 of the routes in this atlas are ÖBB services, covering 7,615 km across 6 countries (Austria, Italy, Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Hungary). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest ÖBB train?
The Railjet Wien–Lienz, Vienna to Lienz, at up to 250 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 5 h 20 min over 470 km.
Does ÖBB run night trains?
Yes — 4 sleeper services in this atlas: Nightjet Vienna–Rome (Vienna – Rome), Nightjet (Hamburg – Vienna), Nightjet Munich–Rome (Munich – Rome), Nightjet (Vienna – Zurich).
When was ÖBB founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1919, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1854 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries ÖBB runs in
- 🇩🇪 Train routes in Germany 136 routes
- 🇮🇹 Train routes in Italy 81 routes
- 🇨🇭 Train routes in Switzerland 71 routes
- 🇦🇹 Train routes in Austria 63 routes
- 🇭🇺 Train routes in Hungary 41 routes
- 🇱🇮 Train routes in Liechtenstein 4 routes
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- ÖBB · DB 4 routes
- ÖBB · SBB 2 routes
- ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG 2 routes
- Salzburg AG 2 routes
- Steiermarkbahn 2 routes