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Venice to Vienna

Venice to Vienna

Italy to Austria through the Alps

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Venice to Vienna by direct ÖBB Railjet takes about 7 h 15 — beginning on the causeway across the Venetian lagoon and ending over the Semmering Railway, the 41 km Alpine line of 1854 that in 1998 became the world's first railway with UNESCO World Heritage status. An ÖBB Nightjet sleeper covers the same pair overnight.

Route facts

Duration≈ 7 h 15 by Railjet (≈ 30 min faster since the Koralm Railway opened Dec 2025); Nightjet dep Venice 21:05, arr Vienna 07:581
OperatorÖBB — Railjet (day, up to 230 km/h) and Nightjet (night)2
Summit898 m near Semmering — Europe's first standard-gauge mountain railway1
UNESCOSemmering Railway: World Heritage since 1998, the first railway ever listed3
ReservationsSparschiene advance tickets bookable up to 6 months ahead; Nightjet berths include reservations1
Fares (2026)Railjet from €28.30 (economy advance); Nightjet from €59 couchette / €129 single sleeper. Book at oebb.at1
RunsDaily, all year round1

Terrain along the route

06001,200 Venezia Santa Lucia — 2 m, km 0Wien Hbf — 205 m, km 628 1,656 m 0 km 628 km
Terrain elevation sampled along the line — tunnels appear as the ridges they pass beneath. Highest station: Wien Hbf at 205 m. Computed from Trainmap's route geometry and AWS Open Data terrain tiles.

Scenic highlights

  • Venice lagoon causeway. The journey opens (or closes) with the crossing from Venezia Santa Lucia over the lagoon.1
  • Bruck an der Mur to Villach. Sustained mountain scenery through Styria and Carinthia, resuming all the way past Klagenfurt.1
  • Semmering Railway. The climax near Vienna: the train snakes over the 41 km UNESCO line of 1854, across two-storey stone viaducts, summiting at 898 m.1

Stations on this route

  1. Venezia Santa Lucia
  2. Wien Hbf

UNESCO calls the Semmering "one of the greatest feats of civil engineering from this pioneering phase of railway building" — 41 km with 14 tunnels, 16 viaducts and over 100 stone bridges, built 1848–54 by some 20,000 workers under Carl von Ghega, an engineer born in Venice, at the far end of this very route (UNESCO, Wikipedia). The line has been in continuous use since 1854; the future Semmering Base Tunnel will bypass it for fast trains, making the historic crossing a scenic choice in its own right.

“An epic daytime ride through great scenery.”

— Mark Smith, The Man in Seat 611

Related routes

Sources

  1. seat61.com
  2. oebb.at
  3. semmering.at

Facts last verified 2026-07-18 · About Trainmap · All iconic routes

Rail data: signal.eu.org/osm
Stations: Trainline, Nominatim
Maps: Carto, OpenStreetMap, Stamen, Stadia Maps
3D Terrain: AWS Terrain Tiles, Mapzen
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