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Sopron–Kőszeg railway
Overview
OwnerÖBB
Technical
Line length57.7 km (35.9 mi)
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Operating speed80 km/h (50 mph)
Route map

Legend
Mattersburg railway line from Wiener Neustadt
Raaberbahn line from Ebenfurth
−0,205 Start of the line
0,000 Sopron 198 m above sea level (AA)
Raaberbahn line to Győr and to Sopron-Rendező shunting yard
from Sopron-Rendező shunting yard
2,600 Sopron-Rendező déli elágazás
4,811 Harka
RÖEE to Szombathely
6,602 Austria–Hungary national border
7,752 Feuerbach (6,0 m)
9,352 spur junction silo facility Deutschkreutz
9,411 Deutschkreutz 182 m above sea level (AA)
10,210 End of the ÖBB-operated track
10,540 B 62 (41 m)
11,571 B 62 (2 × 16,5 + 1 × 26,0 m)
12,168 Goldbach (5,0 m)
12,168 Bridge (3,0 m)
13,483 Unterpetersdorf 218 m above sea level (AA)
16,432 spur junction Lagerhaus Horitschon
16,252 Neckenmarkt-Horitschon 245 m above sea level (AA)
18,025 Kuchelbach (15,0 m)
18,959 Raiding-Lackendorf 270 m above sea level (AA)
20,114 Unterfrauenhaid
21,735 B 62 (2 × 18,0 + 1 × 23,5 m)
22,362 Lackenbach 300 m above sea level (AA)
22,389 spur junction Sägewerk Esterházy
22,666 Lackenbach (9,6 m)
23,146 B 62 (2 × 12,0 + 1 × 17,0 m)
23,872 Goberlingbach (9,5 m)
27,512 Weppersdorf-Kobersdorf 300 m above sea level (AA)
27,785 Brücke (5,7 m)
27,942 Stooberbach (20,0 m)
28,113 Brücke (3,7 m)
28,475 spur junction
28,729 Tessenbach (5,0 m)
28,888 Markt Sankt Martin 280 m above sea level (AA)
30,483 B 50 (2 × 10,8 + 1 × 17,0 m)
31,265 Neutal
34,046 Stoob
38,535 Gemeindestraße (4,0 m)
38,931 Oberpullendorf 260 m above sea level (AA)
39,280 Gemeindestraße (12,0 m)
42,690 spur junction Lagerei Handelsges. m.b.H.
42,833 Unterpullendorf 284 m above sea level (AA)
line from Bük (removed)
46,745 Oberloisdorf 248 m above sea level (AA)
46,860 End of the track
47,000 Rabnitz (removed)
49,800 Mannersdorf a. d. Rabnitz (removed) 322 m above sea level (AA)
52,400 Rattersdorf-Liebing (removed) 291 m above sea level (AA)
53,101 Austria–Hungary national border
55,700 Kőszeg-Sörgyár (removed) 322 m above sea level (AA)
57,500 End of the track
57,700 Kőszeg
line to Szombathely

The Sopron–Kőszeg railway line, also known as Burgenlandbahn and Günser Bahn, is a railway line formerly connecting Sopron and Kőszeg, two towns in western Hungary, through the Austrian province Burgenland. It is a single-track partly electrified line, operated by ÖBB (passenger trains) and GySEV (goods trains). Its only connection to the rest of the ÖBB network currently is through Sopron.

Operations on most of the track (between Deutschkreutz and Kőszeg) have been ceased in a few stages. As the Iron Curtain has cut off Hungary from Austria, passenger traffic between Rattersdorf-Liebing and Kőszeg had to be stopped on 6 October 1951, with goods trains no longer operating since 1 September 1960 on, with only corridor traffic being allowed. The track from Oberloisdorf in the direction of Hungary has been dismantled on 28 April 1969. All traffic between Deutschkreutz and Oberloisdorf stopped on 15 December 2013.

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