Destination Guides from main Stations in Austria

Discover where you can travel on to by direct express train from the major rail hubs in Austria.
You can see at a glance which other destinations you can access most easily, whether you'll be on holiday in these cities, or stopping over on a rail pass itinerary.

This is a guide intended for leisure travellers, so the non-comprehensive destination lists focus on locations and routes popular with tourists.

The day train frequency guides are based on the usual schedules between 08:00am and 17:00pm, but the availability of the trains can be impacted by temporary timetable alterations.
The frequencies are included as indicators, as in some hours during the day the most regular patterns of departures won’t apply

From Wien / Vienna

The Austrian capital is a key European rail hub as it is where a main north ↔ south route between Hamburg and Trieste / The Balkans crosses the one time Orient Express east ↔ west route between Paris and Bulgaria / Romania.

Hence the creation of the incredible Wien Hbf, the main station which serves the city and has trains heading off in all four directions:

3 or more x trains per hour:
to Linz, Salzburg and St Polten

1 or 2 x trains per hour
to Bratislava, Graz, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, München/Munich and Villach

1 x train per hour 
to Budapest and Landeck-Zams*
(*= in most hours)  

1 x train every other hour:
to Bregenz, Frankfurt (Main) (not from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026), Nuremberg, Regensburg, St Anton and Zurich

0 to 2 x trains per hour:
to Brno and Prague

Less frequent trains:
to Bad Gastein, Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt (Main)(from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026), Chop, Debrecen, Köln/Cologne, Krakow, Lienz, Maribor, Udine, Venice, Warsaw and Zahony and Zell-am-See

1 x train per day:
to Bad Ischl*, Bolzano, Dresden, Hallstat*, Hamburg (not from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026), Hannover (not from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026), Kosice, Kyiv, Ljubljana, Lviv, Trieste and Zagreb
*= from Wien Westbahnhof

By night train:
to Amsterdam, Berlin, Bregenz, Brussels, Bucharest, Dresden, Florence, Hamburg, Hannover, Gdansk, Genoa, Krakow, München/Munich, Rome, Split (not year round), Stuttgart, Udine, Utrecht, Venice, Warsaw and Zurich.

For more info on the trains on each of these routes see the journey guides:

From Salzburg

Salzburg Hbf  is a junction station where the route from Switzerland and Innsbruck meets the route between Germany and The Balkans.

More than 1 x train per hour:
to Linz, München/Munich, St Polten and Wien / Vienna

1 or 2 x trains per hour:
to Innsbruck

1 x train per hour:
to Attgang-Pucheim - connect for Hallstat; Bad Gastein, Klagenfurt, Landeck-Zams and Villach

1 x train every other hour:
to Bregenz, Graz and Zurich  

0 to 2 x trains per hour:
to Zell-am-See

Less frequent trains:
to Budapest, Frankfurt (Main) and St Anton

1 x train per day:
to Bolzano, Bratislava and Köln/Cologne

By night train:
to Florence*, Krakow, Rome*, Udine*, Venice*, Warsaw and Zagreb
*= train departs after midnight

For more info on the trains on each of these routes see the journey guides.

From Innsbruck

Innsbruck Hbf is a junction station where the route from Switzerland to eastern Europe crosses the main route between Germany and Italy.
It’s also a city surrounded by stunning landscapes so it is a great base for exploring by train.

1 or 2 x trains per hour:
to Salzburg, Linz, St Polten; Wien / Vienna

1 x train per hour (in most hours):
to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Landeck-Zams and St Anton

1 x train every other hour:
to Bolzano, Bregenz; Garmisch-Partenkirchen, München/Munich (fast trains), Trento, Verona and Zurich

0 to 2 x trains per hour
to Kitzbuhel and Zell-am-Zee

Less frequent trains:
to Bologna, Frankfurt (Main), Graz, Lindau, Padova/Padua, Venezia/Venice and Vicenza

1 x train per day:
to Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Heidelberg, Leipzig and Köln/Cologne

By night train:
to Amsterdam, Budapest*, Graz*, Hamburg, Hannover, Ljubljana*, Köln/Cologne and Zagreb*
*= train departs after midnight 

For full details see the journey guides

From Linz

Linz / Donau Hbf is a junction station where the route from Switzerland to eastern Europe meets a route which heads into historic Bohemia and on to Praha / Prague.

More than 1 x train per hour:
to Salzburg, St Polten and Wien/Vienna

1 or 2 x trains per hour:
to Innsbruck, Landeck-Zams* and München/Munich
 (*= in most hours)

1 x train every other hour:
to Bregenz, Budapest, České Budějovice, Frankfurt (Main) (not from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026), Nuremberg (not from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026), Regensburg (not from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026), St Anton and Zurich

Less frequent trains:
to Bad Gastein, Berlin, Bonn, Frankfurt (Main)(from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026) Graz, Köln/Cologne, Lindau, Mainz, Nuremberg (from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026) Praha/Prague, Regensburg (from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026)

1 x train per day:
to Bolzano, Bratislava, Hallstat, Hamburg (not from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026), Hannover (not from Feb 7th 2026 until Dec 12th 2026) 

By night train:
to Amsterdam, Bregenz, Hamburg, Hannover, Krakow, Udine, Utrecht, Warsaw and Zurich

From Graz

Thanks to its location near the Croatian and Hungarian borders, Graz Hbf is a a transfer station when making international journeys to and from Austria.

2 x trains per hour (most hours):
to Klagenfurt, Villach, Wien / Vienna Hbf

1 x train per hour 
to Linz, Maribor and Vienna Airport / Flughafen

1 x train per hour (most hours)
to Bad Gastein and Salzburg

1 x train every other hour
to Linz

Less frequent trains to:
Augsburg, Budapest, Brno, Frankfurt (Main), Innsbruck, Kitzbuhel, Ljubljana, Munchen / Munich, Praha/Prague, Schladming, Stuttgart, Udine, Ulm, Venezia/Venice, Worgl and Zell am See

1 x train per day to:
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt Airport, Koln/Cologne, Krakow, Ostrava, St Anton, Trieste, Zagreb and Zurich  

Night trains to:
Berlin, Bologna, Dresden, Firenze/Florence, Roma, Praha/Prague and Zurich  

General Notes:

The Austrian national rail operator OBB provides a fixed timetable with departure patterns repeated in every hour on the two main routes to/from Wien/Vienna
 (1) east/west to Linz, Salzburg and Innsbruck; and
(2) north/south towards Graz and Klagenfurt.

Though trains are less frequent on the other core route between Sallzburg and Villach - a route which is closed to through trains until mid-July.

Timetables for regional trains tend to be more sporadic, particularly on routes west of Salzburg, with different service patterns applying at weekends

Austria is connected to neighboring countries by multiple routes which have fixed timetables, with trains departing at a minimum of every other hour

Plus OBB operates Nightjet, the most comprehensive network of overnight train services in Europe.Though multiple Nightjet routes aren’t able to operate their usual schedules on multiple dates in 2025.