South Station demolition

I am arriving in Vienna via Bratislava on 28 November and am now concerned as to whether the train from Bratislava will come into the South Station. Has anyone any information? I was planning to take the train back to Bratislava on 30 November again assuming from the South Station. Any info appreciated as intended to locate on south side of city.

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No need to worry - Südbahnhof (South Station) will be shut down from December 12, so the Bratislava trains will operate as usual until then.

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Heyerette/Mikey - is there any information on-line about what is actually going to happen after 12th December? They must have some kind of plan in place for all the trains going to/from Prague, Bratislava, etc.

Thanks for any info.

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As far as I know, they will keep a section of the station, towards Schweizergarten park, for Ostbahn-trains (the Bratislava route belongs to that) - a provisionary East Station, if you will.

The Schnellbahn will continue to run, with a provisionary entrance/exit to Schweizergarten and it seems Ostbahn train passengers will get something similar ; the Ostbahn tracks will just be re-positioned in some way (shortened or something). Not sure whether this goes for trains coming in from Prague or further away though and apparently, international long-distance Ostbahn trains, e.g. to/from Budapest, will terminate in Meidling.

I wish ÖBB would finally provide the new time schedule, instead of only talking about it and causing uproar with planned shortenings on regional train services.

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Trains from the South will terminate at Wien-Meidling Station (which has been enhanced for that purpose) and local/regional trains from the East/Northeast will be guided to a temporary station as already described by Heyerette. International (long distance) traffic from the Czech Republic and Poland (not Bratislava!) will be going through Vienna using the S-Bahn corridor and terminate/stop at Wien-Meidling Station. S-Bahn traffic, running between Wien-Meidling and Wien-Floridsdorf, is not affected as it bypasses the %26quot;scene%26quot;.

http://www.hauptbahnhof-wien.at/