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Westbahn Continues Expansion with New Chinese Trains and High-Speed Trains for the South
Industrialist Hans Peter Haselsteiner's Westbahn railway is pushing ahead with massive expansion on its western and southern lines. While four new double-decker trains from Chinese manufacturer CRRC will increase service frequency on the line of the west, the southern line will be served by new high-speed trains from March 2026. The total investment underscores the growing competition in Austrian long-distance rail transport.
The expansion to the south is part of a comprehensive offensive in which Westbahn is also pursuing plans to extend the line to Lienz, Bolzano, and Venice. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons; Herbert Ortner, CC BY 3.0 DEED (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en)
With the gradual commissioning of four new double-decker trains from Chinese manufacturer CRRC, Westbahn's fleet is growing to 19 sets. The investment for these trains amounts to 70 million euros. With this expansion, seating capacity will increase by 28 percent to just under 10,000 seats, enabling 66 daily Westbahn connections instead of the previous 60, and thus continuous half-hourly…
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