[AT] Austrian timetable 2026 online

[Austriantrain]

Just as an info: from this week, the Vienna - Passau - Nürnberg - Frankfurt/Berlin ICE service is severely limited for the rest of the 2026 timetable year.

There are only three direct ICE train pairs between Vienna and Nürnberg, diverted via Ingolstadt, which adds about one hour of travel time.

From the summer until the TT change in December, there will be no service via Passau at all and passengers will have to go via Munich and change there (for track bashers, there will however be the unusual experience of fast, diesel-hauled LD services on the Wels/Neumarkt - Simbach - Munich line).

 

[Austriantrain]

Since today, Westbahn has started serving Vienna - Villach via the new Koralmbahn, using Stadler SMILE (=SBB Giruno sets). Currently, three daily train pairs are offered, with additional trains on Fridays and Sundays. From the end of May, it will be 5 daily train pairs.

Timetables can be found here (and of course in timetable planners): https://westbahn.at/news/unsere-reiseziele/ab-in-den-sueden/

 

[NCT]

Slight shame there aren't multi-operator flexible tickets. For Interrailers the Westbahn services are a welcome addition to OeBB's 2-hourly RJX services. Going from Vienna towards Villach you can loosely aim for the Westbahn knowing there's an RJX 38 minutes behind if you want to take your meal/coffee/pint/sightseeing a bit more leisurely.

 

[Austriantrain]

Slight shame there aren't multi-operator flexible tickets. For Interrailers the Westbahn services are a welcome addition to OeBB's 2-hourly RJX services. Going from Vienna towards Villach you can loosely aim for the Westbahn knowing there's an RJX 38 minutes behind if you want to take your meal/coffee/pint/sightseeing a bit more leisurely.

I agree. For regular Users, the Klimaticket has of course eliminated the issue, but for everyone else it remains. Unfortunately no one is willing to push for it apparently.

 

[Austriantrain]

From September 2026 to October 2027, the Praterstern - Hauptbahnhof section of the Viennese S-Bahn-core (Stammstrecke) will be closed for a complete route upgrade.

For inner-Vienna trips, there are plenty of easy alternatives, but if you happen to arrive in Vienna by plane: the City Airport Train will be a RRB and S-Bahn line S7 will terminate at St. Marx. Rail access to Wien Mitte will not be possible; besides the LD trains from Vienna airport to Wien Hauptbahnhof, additional REX7 services will run to Wien Hauptbahnhof too.

Trains from the airport should reach Wien Mitte again from October 2027, but Rennweg - Wien Hauptbahnhof and, from November 2027 Hauptbahnhof - Meidling (S-Bahn lines only) too, will remain closed until the timetable change in December 2027.

 

[Austriantrain]

Another update: From 14th of June 2026 until the timetable change in December, railjet services between Salzburg and Munich/Kufstein/Innsbruck will have extended journey times. The reason is "speed harmonization" - due to the complete closure of the Passau line, a lot of freight will have to be diverted, so the faster services are being slowed down to increase the number of available freight paths. West of Innsbruck, the railjet express-paths will be switched by 30 minutes, which also means that paths into Zurich via Sargans are not available and direct trains will be strongly reduced in number and diverted via St. Gallen.

As already mentioned before, there will be no Wien- Nürnberg ICE service via Passau at all. Additional trains Wien - München will run, both via Salzburg and via Simbach (Diesel traction between Wels and München).

And a preview for 2027: Salzburg - Rosenheim is planned to be closed entirely for the first half of the year. Wien- Innsbruck trains will either divert via Zell am See (90 minutes additional journey time) or be bustituted; Wien -München will be via Passau; and some (again, diesel-hauled) LD trains are expected on Salzburg - Mühldorf - München. As the Tauern will also be closed for some months at the same time, it won't be a good time for intercity rail travel in most of Austria...

 

[30907]

Another update: From 14th of June 2026 until the timetable change in December, railjet services between Salzburg and Munich/Kufstein/Innsbruck will have extended journey times. The reason is "speed harmonization" - due to the complete closure of the Passau line, a lot of freight will have to be diverted, so the faster services are being slowed down to increase the number of available freight paths. West of Innsbruck, the railjet express-paths will be switched by 30 minutes, which also means that paths into Zurich via Sargans are not available and direct trains will be strongly reduced in number and diverted via St. Gallen.

How does this affect the previously-planned diversion via St Margrethen caused by the closure of Feldkirch-Buchs?

 

[Austriantrain]

How does this affect the previously-planned diversion via St Margrethen caused by the closure of Feldkirch-Buchs?

I wrote „diverted via St Gallen“, meaning the same as „via St Margrethen“ (I know that there are other routes available, but the published timetable includes a stop in St Gallen). I don’t know what will happen when Feldkirch- Buchs reopens in October - CH-bound railjets might run to Buchs or Sargans and end there, like they often do.

 

[30907]

I wrote „diverted via St Gallen“, meaning the same as „via St Margrethen“ (I know that there are other routes available, but the published timetable includes a stop in St Gallen). I don’t know what will happen when Feldkirch- Buchs reopens in October - CH-bound railjets might run to Buchs or Sargans and end there, like they often do.

Yes, I've now looked at times: 2hr longer Zurich-Wien instead of 1hr as advertised in December, of which 20min is between Salzburg and Kufstein, 10min each at Innsbruck and St Gallen. And fewer hough trains, for understandable reasons.

Wien-Munich is about 10min longer.

 

[Austriantrain]

Not directly timetable-related, but as a point of information:

The new ÖBB Stadler KISS classes 4734 (4 car) and 4736 (6 car) should enter service by the end of June, first on line CJX9. They will gradually replace existing stock on the CJX- and REX-Lines traversing the Vienna S-Bahn city core, in particular REX1 and REX3 as well as CJX9. Mostly, they will run as double 4car sets (when the S-Bahn core upgrade is finished); some lines I expect to be run with single six-car sets (REX2 possibly, and AFAIK also Wien - Bratislava hl.st. in the future).

ÖBB 4705/4706/4734/4736 – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

The longer-distance class 4706 should follow towards the end of the year.

 

[ABB125]

As already mentioned before, there will be no Wien- Nürnberg ICE service via Passau at all. Additional trains Wien - München will run, both via Salzburg and via Simbach (Diesel traction between Wels and München).

Is there a list of the diesel-hauled services via Simbach?

 

[DanielB]

Is there a list of the diesel-hauled services via Simbach?

They are relatively easily recognized as trains via that route are ECs, while all RJ(X) go via Salzburg:

EC1218 Wien Hbf 7.13 - München Hbf 12.01
EC1216 Wien Hbf 9.13 - München Hbf 13.54
EC1210 Wien Hbf 17.13 - München Hbf 21.59
EC1213 München Hbf 10.21 - Wien Hbf 14.47
EC1217 München Hbf 14.21 - Wien Hbf 18.47
EC1219 München Hbf 18.21 - Wien Hbf 22.47

I've checked only one day in August (as I found them whilst planning my summer holiday and tweaked my plans to enable taking the EC1216), so verify the times at oebb.at for any other dates.

 

[ABB125]

They are relatively easily recognized as trains via that route are ECs, while all RJ(X) go via Salzburg:

EC1218 Wien Hbf 7.13 - München Hbf 12.01
EC1216 Wien Hbf 9.13 - München Hbf 13.54
EC1210 Wien Hbf 17.13 - München Hbf 21.59
EC1213 München Hbf 10.21 - Wien Hbf 14.47
EC1217 München Hbf 14.21 - Wien Hbf 18.47
EC1219 München Hbf 18.21 - Wien Hbf 22.47

I've checked only one day in August (as I found them whilst planning my summer holiday and tweaked my plans to enable taking the EC1216), so verify the times at oebb.at for any other dates.

Thanks very much - I wasn't sure what to look for in VagonWeb

 

[Gottfried]

They usually are available only a few days before the TT change.

Hi,
The timetable of the Koralmbahn has been provided by ÖBB 220 and 501. Please note, the Koralmbahn is only the part between Graz Hbf. and Klagenfurt Hbf.
The new line is not a really high speed one, as there are also regional- some local services and freight trains.
The part between Kühnsdorf and Klagenfurt is an upgrade of the Drautalbahn. Italy-Sillian-Klagenfurt-Dravograd/Unter Drauburg (Slovenia)


See the timetables:

https://www.oebb.at/de/dam/jcr:3d9fa68a-67fb-4dc3-89e1-fb091b71bccc/501.pdf

https://www.oebb.at/de/dam/jcr:cce94ea4-fe5b-43a5-be2f-57fc67388cc7/220.pdf

 

[route101]

I was in Graz recently and sampled the local S bahn network , I took the S61 DMU to Wettmannstatten and returned on the S6 double deck loco hauled service. I bought a return ticket at Graz on TVM which was two singles at around 11 Euros each. I thought this was quite expensive, I couldn't find a day ticket for the S Bahn.

From the way the guards checked my ticket, my ticket was more unusual. With no TVMs at Wettmannstatten, I guess people on E tickets or buying on board.

 

[rvdborgt]

I was in Graz recently and sampled the local S bahn network , I took the S61 DMU to Wettmannstatten and returned on the S6 double deck loco hauled service. I bought a return ticket at Graz on TVM which was two singles at around 11 Euros each. I thought this was quite expensive, I couldn't find a day ticket for the S Bahn.

There's a 24-hour ticket for the price of 2 singles. It's actually a ticket of the Verkehrsverbund Steiermark, and is valid in all public transport in the zones you paid for, not just in the S-Bahn.

 

[route101]

There's a 24-hour ticket for the price of 2 singles. It's actually a ticket of the Verkehrsverbund Steiermark, and is valid in all public transport in the zones you paid for, not just in the S-Bahn.

I see. I did see a Weekend ticket but not this one. The day ticket for the Graz Trams covered Zone 101.

 

[Beebman]

I'm going to be in Graz next week and I've been investigating the prices of day tickets - there's a one-page PDF (in German) on the Verkehrsverbund Steiermark website which shows ticket prices as well as a map of zones:

https://www.verbundlinie.at/images/tarif/pdfs/tarifzonenplan_fahrpreise.pdf

Prices for day (24-Stunden) tickets range from 7.00 EUR for a single zone to 76.20 EUR for 16 zones, the latter seems rather pricey but presumably it covers the whole of the state of Steiermark (Styria). However there's also a Weekend ticket valid for a day on either Saturday or Sunday which appears to cover all zones:

https://www.verbundlinie.at/de/tickets-tarif/spezielle-tickets/freizeit-ticket-steiermark

The price is 14 EUR (rising to 15 EUR on July 1st).

 

[Austriantrain]

They are relatively easily recognized as trains via that route are ECs, while all RJ(X) go via Salzburg:

EC1218 Wien Hbf 7.13 - München Hbf 12.01
EC1216 Wien Hbf 9.13 - München Hbf 13.54
EC1210 Wien Hbf 17.13 - München Hbf 21.59
EC1213 München Hbf 10.21 - Wien Hbf 14.47
EC1217 München Hbf 14.21 - Wien Hbf 18.47
EC1219 München Hbf 18.21 - Wien Hbf 22.47

I've checked only one day in August (as I found them whilst planning my summer holiday and tweaked my plans to enable taking the EC1216), so verify the times at oebb.at for any other dates.

Thanks very much - I wasn't sure what to look for in VagonWeb

If you are thinking of using one of these services, please note that they seem to often be heavily delayed. For once, it is (mostly) not DB‘s fault.

 

[Beebman]

If you are thinking of using one of these services, please note that they seem to often be heavily delayed. For once, it is (mostly) not DB‘s fault.

Last week while I was travelling around Austria I'm sorry to say that I found punctuality to be disappointing and indeed I racked up a lifetime worst-ever delay in my many years of train travel of an arrival into Wien Hbf from Villach some 261 minutes late (long story, initially not ÖBB's fault until a loco failed). I therefore found myself submitting a Delay Repay claim (processed very quickly I'm happy to say) and in doing so I found this page in English where you can check the punctuality of individual trains in Austria over the past 7 days:

https://www.oebb.at/en/fahrplan/verspaetungsbestaetigung

I've checked the arrivals at Wien of yesterday's ECs to München and they're shown as follows:

EC1213: 42 mins
EC1217: 88 mins
EC1219: 32 mins

The progress of the delays are only shown on the Austrian side but they do seem to generally increase from Wels onwards.

Also just to note that from my observations of these services they generally seemed to include some ex-NightJet compartment coaches which might not provide the best level of comfort.

 

[Austriantrain]

Last week while I was travelling around Austria I'm sorry to say that I found punctuality to be disappointing and indeed I racked up a lifetime worst-ever delay in my many years of train travel of an arrival into Wien Hbf from Villach some 261 minutes late (long story, initially not ÖBB's fault until a loco failed).

Punctuality and reliability has, in the past years, really gone downhill in Austria unfortunately. We are not at German levels yet (not by quite a distance), but no one should assume that they will arrive on time here, let alone reach a connecting train. For a timetable built as a Takt, that is quite disastrous.

I've checked the arrivals at Wien of yesterday's ECs to München and they're shown as follows:

EC1213: 42 mins
EC1217: 88 mins
EC1219: 32 mins

The progress of the delays are only shown on the Austrian side but they do seem to generally increase from Wels onwards.

I have looked more at the westbound trains, and there are many heavily delayed departures from Wien Hbf, the reason almost invariably being rolling stock issues (and a rather strange case of using the diesel from Wien Hbf, with 140 max speed and no ETCS, so no using the Higher-Speed Vienna - St. Pölten). The old RIC stock is extremely worn down, and due to the ever overoptimistic ÖBB assumptions about when the new trains will enter service, are on minimum maintenance.

Indeed, rolling stock issues are a major reason for delays generally, including the RJ sets. They cover very long distances daily and because of the perennial lack of rolling stock, their mid-life refurbishment has been delayed for years and is proceeding at a glacial pace. And it shows. Loco 1x16 failures are not rare either.

As part of my daily commute from Vienna to St Pölten, I almost always opt for Westbahn now. They are very much more reliable.

 

[ABB125]

If you are thinking of using one of these services, please note that they seem to often be heavily delayed. For once, it is (mostly) not DB‘s fault.

I travelled yesterday. And there were delays!
Some delays (also affecting DB Regio services) on the single track Munich to Simbach route. The middle of the day train from Vienna to Munich was several hours late throughout. But none of the delays really affected me, I just replanned as I went along - the aim of the day was to just fit in some diesel loco haulage

 

[DanielB]

If you are thinking of using one of these services, please note that they seem to often be heavily delayed. For once, it is (mostly) not DB‘s fault.

Thanks, made me look into it and it looks like my connection after the EC would be feasible in most cases.

Are those ECs busy by the way (in first class) on a weekday? If not I might consider taking the 7.13 instead of the 9.13, as I only changed plans (and reserved the 9.13 one) to have a bit more time for breakfast and packing my bags before leaving. (My hotel in Vienna is right across the street from the hauptbahnhof, so pretty easy to get there in time)

 

[Austriantrain]

I racked up a lifetime worst-ever delay in my many years of train travel of an arrival into Wien Hbf from Villach some 261 minutes late (long story, initially not ÖBB's fault until a loco failed).

The elderly driver who mistook a footpath with a one-way street and drove onto the tracks somewhere between Villach and Klagenfurt? That one caused some delays, yes…

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Are those ECs busy by the way (in first class) on a weekday?

I suspect not - people always tend to use the RJ services - but don’t know for sure. I will ask around and answer again if I can find out.

BTW, the first class-coaches do tend to miss quite often on those „RIC“-ÖBB trains, because there are very few spares (although if possible, ÖBB will remove them from domestic trains first and reshuffle them).

 

[Beebman]

The elderly driver who mistook a footpath with a one-way street and drove onto the tracks somewhere between Villach and Klagenfurt? That one caused some delays, yes…

I can exclusively reveal that I was on that train...

After only 10 minutes out of Villach at the unstaffed station of Lind-Rosegg there was a bang followed by very sharp emergency braking with the sound of debris and ballast being thrown up by the train. I was certain some large object had been the cause but I couldn't see that it could have been a car as there was no sign of a level crossing. Anyway a fire engine turned up after 10 minutes to extinguish a small fire followed by other emergency vehicles (see the first of my attached photos), and a policewoman later walked past holding a crumpled car number plate.

After over an hour of sweltering, as there was no power to the train, a stash of bottled water in a cupboard (presumably kept for such emergencies) was distributed to passengers. Eventually everyone was led out and assisted by firemen down onto the ballast followed by a walk along the platform with car debris still strewn along it (see my second attached photo) where the local Red Cross provided more water and shelter from the sun.

After another 20 minutes a bus turned up and took those who of us who wanted to continue our journey (some elected to return to Villach) to Klagenfurt Hbf where a RJ to Wien was due to depart in 10 minutes...

...but the loco was then declared a failure and everybody ended up getting the following RJ service, hence my 261-minute late arrival.

 

[Austriantrain]

I can exclusively reveal that I was on that train...

Very sorry to hear that!

I was certain some large object had been the cause but I couldn't see that it could have been a car as there was no sign of a level crossing.

There was indeed no level crossing and that was the problem, the driver drove onto the platform and then onto the tracks. At least, no one was injured.

BTW, that was the view the driver had.

 

[DanielB]

I suspect not - people always tend to use the RJ services - but don’t know for sure. I will ask around and answer again if I can find out.

An update based on my observation this morning: not exceptionally busy, especially not after Linz.

I had changed my reservation from EC1216 to EC1218, but unfortunately a minor delay and the loco swap in Wels taking a bit longer than planned resulted in waiting for oncoming trains and an hour delay at Simbach. Waiting for passing trains in Germany added another 30 minutes.
My onward connection from Munich would have become tight from the 1216, so happy I'd changed to the earlier train. (And the delay of the 1218 didn't matter anyway, as my earlier onward option ECE 192 was cancelled anyway)

 

[30907]

An update based on my observation this morning: not exceptionally busy, especially not after Linz.

I had changed my reservation from EC1216 to EC1218, but unfortunately a minor delay and the loco swap in Wels taking a bit longer than planned resulted in waiting for oncoming trains and an hour delay at Simbach. Waiting for passing trains in Germany added another 30 minutes.
My onward connection from Munich would have become tight from the 1216, so happy I'd changed to the earlier train. (And the delay of the 1218 didn't matter anyway, as my earlier onward option ECE 192 was cancelled anyway)

That fits my experience a couple of months ago which I think I posted about (but not in this thread).