Named after the Westbahnhof, Vienna’s terminus for the line to the west.
The Westbahnhof is the starting point of the Westbahn. It opened in December 1858 with the ‘Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn’, the railway named after Empress Elisabeth, towards Linz. The old station was badly damaged in the Second World War and pulled down from 1949; a statue of Elisabeth from the old station now stands in the lower hall. The new hall opened in 1951.