Empress Elisabeth Railway

Its rail network was centred on the Western Railway line from Vienna to Salzburg with a branch to Passau.

On 21 June 1851 the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Bavaria signed a treaty to build a railway line from Vienna via Salzburg to Munich, and also agreed upon an extension from Rosenheim via Kufstein to Innsbruck as well as the continuation of the railroad from Nuremberg via Regensburg and Passau to Linz.

First plans were set up at the behest of the industrialist Hermann Dietrich Lindheim (1790–1860), who together with the German businessman Ernst Merck (1811–1863) founded the Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn railway company, named after Empress Elisabeth of Austria.

Vienna West Station was heavily damaged in World War II and reconstructed until 1952, when the railway had been equipped with electrical power lines.

The obverse shows the steam locomotive kkStB 306.01 crossing a railroad bridge on the Austrian Western Railway path.

Westbahn line from Salzburg to Vienna. The extension to Passau is not included.
Share of the Empress Elisabeth Railway (Kaiserin Elisabeth-Bahn), issued 1 July 1856 [ 1 ]