📋 Tender Overview
Extensive measures are implemented on the Mattersburger Bahn. Except for electrical operation, there is still a lot to do, the preparatory work starts at the end of June.
The OBB start with the preparatory work to electrify the Mattersburg railway. This takes another important step to modernize the regional rail network in Lower Austria and Burgenland. The goal is an environmentally friendly, modern railway operation with a 100 % green railway current. Electrification not only brings more comfort for passengers, but also a significant reduction in CO2 and noise emissions.
Predictures and security expansion
In July, OBB begin with geotechnical priorities along the route. The measures are essential to implement the future electrification safely and efficiently. At the same time, ASFINAG carries out the safety expansion on the S4. In the construction phase, crossings with the Mattersburg railway. The work of ASFINAG makes a lock of the railway line.
Conservation work at Wiesen-Sigless
Another focus is on the railway crossing at the Wiesen-Sigless stop. Here the road surface is renewed through the road maintenance department and the level crossing is exchanged by the OBB. This work increases security for all road users: inside and improving the infrastructure sustainably.
Slove of the railway line and rail replacement traffic
Due to the construction work, Saturday, June 28, 2025 (towards Sopron from the start of operation, towards Wiener Neustadt from 07:30 a.m.) until Sunday, August 31, 2025, 8:30 p.m., no trains of the lines Rex93 and R93 do not return between Wiener Neustadt and Deutschkreutz. A rail replacement traffic is set up by bus for the duration of the lock. Passengers from and to Sopron and Deutschkreutz are led via the Baumgarten station, where a switch to Rex6 of the Raaberbahn is possible.
