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The Badner Bahn or Wiener Lokalbahn is a tram-train service in the metropolitan area of Vienna. It runs for 30.4 kilometres (18.9 mi) between Vienna and Baden , and is operated by the Wiener Lokalbahnen Aktiengesellschaft .
The bus line 360, the so-called Casinobus Baden, operates the round-trip Wien Oper – Baden – Bad Vöslau – Gainfarn and is integrated into the night service network of the Wiener Linien. The line 361 operates between Baden, Oeynhausen, Möllersdorf, Bad Vöslau and the "Industriezentrum Niederösterreich Süd".
The Wiener Stadtbahn, which belonged to the Commission for Transport Facilities in Vienna and was operated by the Imperial Royal Austrian State Railways, was in its original mode of operation (1898–1925) a forerunner of the S-Bahn, since it was a full-line operation (Vollbahn ), which also handled local traffic. However, since other factors ...
With the September 2017 opening of the 4.6-kilometer (2.9 mi), five-station extension of the U1 line, [9] the five-line U-Bahn network consists of 83.1 kilometers (51.6 mi) of route, serving 109 stations.
They are still under city control as part of the responsibilities of the City Administrator for Finance, Economics, Work, International affairs and Wiener Stadtwerke, currently Peter Hanke. As of 2009, Wiener Linien employ approximately 8,000 people and serve approximately 812 million passengers.
The current operator of the network is Wiener Linien. In 2013, a total of 293.6 million passengers travelled on the network's trams. [ 1 ] As of 2013 [update] , there were 525 tramcars in Vienna's tram fleet, including 404 trams or tramsets scheduled for service during peak periods , [ 1 ] comprising 215 single cars and 189 motor and trailer sets.
Westbahnhof is one of the busiest stations in Vienna and used to be one of the several termini for international trains in the city. With the 2015 opening of Wien Hauptbahnhof, all long-distance services of the state-owned Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) were transferred to that station, although private operator WESTbahn maintains its intercity service from Bregenz and Munich via Salzburg.
During June 2007, construction work formally commenced in the form of preliminary works, such as the remodelling of the existing S-Bahn station Südtiroler Platz. In 2008, the S-Bahn and the U-Bahn stations at Südtiroler Platz were connected to one another, while the Südbahnhof was demolished, a process which took until 2010 to complete. [ 15 ]