The Austrian Railway Group
Groß Schwechat - Wien

The museum displays a variety of stock from both standard gauge and narrow gauge lines in the area.

Built on the site of the works and base of the Pressburgbahn, a pioneer line combining high-speed running on lines powered by the national railway line AC voltage with street running behind DC locos, the engines being changed during station stops. The line ran into both Wien and Preßurg, whilst the main connecting line ran through Schwechat, past what is now the museum site.

The museum contains a collection of vehicles from the Pressburgbahn a 2-axle and a 4 axle DC loco, for use in the cities, and one of the main line locos. The museum also contains a carefully restored 3-vehicle set of the characteristic bogie coaches used on the line. Also present, and in use on the demonstration line, are a set of two axle urban coaches and two bogied express coaches, typical of the kkStB in the 1890-1900's.

The society also owns 5041.03, a single-unit diesel railcar built in 1933, the last surviving railcar of the first diesel railcars of this type built for the Austrian Railways. It is used on occasional sorties out onto the main line and around the Wien area, and can be hired for private trips. Other diesel locomotives include V36 and V20 examples, together with a hybrid electric loco with diesel engine, from the Montafonerbahn, and used there whilst the line was electrified at a different voltage to the Arlbergbahn. The museum also hosts three steam locomotives, two of which are allowed out onto the main running lines of ÖBB occasionally - "Brunn", built in 1896 by Lokomotive Krauss for shunting, 91.107, a 2-6-0T built in 1908, and 124, a representative of the country-spanning GySEV, a 2-6-2T built in 1925.

Also present in the grounds of the museum is a second organisation's exhibits, for the standard-gauge stock, looked after by VEF (Verband der Eisenbahnfreunde), is complimented by a number of exhibits from Austrian 600mm narrow-gauge lines, and there is a demonstration line in this gauge as well. Most of the vehicles in this collection are from industrial railways, but there is also a battery loco and a narrow-gauge fireless steam engine, formerly used in a kaolin factory. During opening hours one or two of the steam locos are put into steam, providing the means of propulsion for the visitor rides - which use Austrian forest railway carriages

The museum is across the track and visible from the s-bahn station at Groß Schwechat, on s-bahn S7 to the airport, or by road, leaving the A4 Autobahn at junction 8, and following the signs south into the town centre. Access to the Museum Yard is from the road at the platform end.

If you can help identify any of those locos below, pleaee contact us


narrow gauge 42
Former DR 50 3670-2
narrow gauge 240

unidentified diesel shunter
unidentified diesel shunter
unidentified diesel shunter

Teer AG ASDag 1
Ex OBB departmental
X150 01
Teer AG ASDag 2
Montaferbahn E10.011, actually a D&E-Lok, powered by a diesel engine or by 600c d.c.overhead
ex MBS E12-011 		The sad-looking fireless steam engine was built for the Nordzucker AG in Schladen (D) and ended its working life at BASF Ludwigshafen.fabrik (Hohenzollern 3814 of 1918)
3814/1918 Hohenzollern built fireless steam 0-4-0
Stern & Hafferl 20 001
Contact Details : Das Eisenbahnmuseum am Bahnhof Groß Schwechat, 2320 Schwechat, Sendnergasse 26.
Tel.: (01) 367 40 12 or 368 15 103
Open - on Sundays only - between 10:00 and 17:00, between the beginning of May and the end of October.
The narrow gauge exhibition is open at the same times, as is the model railway exhibition within one of the buildings.
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text by Stephen Ford Pictures unless otherwise credited by Ron Ferguson
updated 13th November 2004
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