Salzburg still negotiating railway station maintenance deal

Salzburg has yet to agree how many stations and stops the Austrian Federal Railways will maintain from January 2027, ORF reports. The planned handover is intended to ease the workload of municipalities, with costs shared by the federal government and the states on an 80-20 basis.

The Austrian Federal Railways list includes 59 stations and stops in Salzburg, but it is not yet clear how many will be covered by the new arrangement. The state and railway are still negotiating, and no initial cost estimate is available.

“The specific implementation in Salzburg is still the subject of ongoing negotiations,” railway spokesperson Robert Mosser said. He said the railway could not yet comment on the number of municipalities involved or the financial details.

In Styria, the state has agreed to provide more than one million euros as a one-off payment, which is expected to ease the budgets of 26 municipalities. Under the planned handover, municipalities would no longer be responsible for station cleaning, winter maintenance, vegetation trimming or maintaining lifts.