Raaberbahn

Headquarter in Sopron

The Raaberbahn is a railway company based in Sopron, Hungary. The company is a joint enterprise of the states of Hungary (66.5%),^[1] Austria (28.6%) and a holding belonging to ÖBB Austrian Federal Railways (4.9%). In Hungarian it is called Győr-Sopron-Ebenfurti Vasút (GySEV), in German it was called Raab-Oedenburg-Ebenfurther Eisenbahn (ROeEE) until 2008.

Lines

Green: Lines of Raaberbahn (2011)

The company maintains the following railway lines:

• Győr/Raab–Sopron/Ödenburg–Ebenfurth (Lower Austria), the main line of the company
• Sopron/Ödenburg–Szombathely/Steinamanger (parallel to the Austrian border, in Hungary only; operated by MÁV, the Hungarian State Railway, until 2002)
• Szombathely/Steinamanger–Szentgotthárd/St. Gotthard (as above; operated by MÁV until 2006)
• Neusiedl am See (Burgenland)–Fertőszentmiklós (Hungary), German: "Neusiedler Seebahn"
• Széchenyi Museum Railway near Nagycenk/Groß-Zinkendorf (Hungary), a narrow-gauge track constructed in 1972

See also

• Rail transport in Austria
• Rail transport in Hungary

References

1. ↑ ORF Austrian Broadcasting Company, 9 July 2007

External links

• Media related to GySEV at Wikimedia Commons
• Official Website of Raaberbahn/GySEV (de, hu, en)