Named after Meidling railway station; until 2013 the stop was called Philadelphiabrücke.
Meidling, the old village that gave the 12th district its name, appears around 1140 as ‘Murlingen’ and in 1258 as ‘Meverlingen’: ‘at the people who live by the little wall’. Until 4 October 2013 the U6 station was called Philadelphiabrücke, after the nearby bridge – itself named after the locomotive ‘Philadelphia’, built by Norris in that American city, which reached Vienna in 1838.