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Problems ease at Vienna-Meidling station

By David Rogers

Problems with delayed and cancelled passenger trains at Vienna-Meidling railway station after it became the capital�s new main southern station have eased, Austrian Federal Railways (�BB) claimed today (Tues).

It claimed 96 per cent or 144 of 150 trains this morning had arrived and departed on time at the station in the wake of widespread delays and cancellations on Sunday and yesterday.

The Meidling station on Sunday took over the rail passenger business formerly handled by Vienna�s southern railway station (S�dbahnhof), which closed on Saturday ahead of construction of the city�s new main railway station on its site.

Herwig Wiltberger, a board member of �BB Infrastruktur AG, said today of train punctuality at the Meidling station: "It has been absolutely tops."

He added the predictions of chaos today had been proven wrong.

�BB had been forced to downplay media reports of near chaos at the Meidling station over the past two days.

�BB spokeswoman Verena Radlingmayr, however, admitted yesterday that some passengers had waited for up to 55 minutes for trains.

Workers will tear down the old southern railway station beginning in January, and the new main station should be in partial operation by the end of 2012.

Austrian Times

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