page_title: Graz Hauptbahnhof
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Graz Hauptbahnhof / History
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue de Graz, au début du XXe siècle.
context_page_description: Graz Hauptbahnhof, abbreviated Graz Hbf, is the main railway station in Graz, the capital of the Austrian state of Styria. The station is located some 2 kilometres west of the city centre, to which it is connected by the tram.
  The station serves as a major node on the Southern Railway, which links it to Vienna in the north, and Slovenia in the south. It is also the terminus of the Styrian Eastern Railway, which runs eastwards towards Hungary, and of the local Köflacherbahn to the west. In the future, the Koralm Railway will provide a direct link from Graz to Italy via Klagenfurt.
context_section_description: The first Railway station was opened here in 1847 but due to a big increase in passenger numbers a bigger station was constructed on the same site between 1871 and 1876.
  In 1945 the grand station from 1876 was totally destroyed in allied bombing raids. 
  In 1956 the building works on the current station were completed.
  The station was built in the typical style of the 1950s and the main ticket hall is now a listed building.
  In 2001 the station was modernised and partly rebuilt to incorporate escalators to the platforms and also a small shopping mall.
caption: Original station from 1876 (destroyed in 1945)
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