I do not want to change this (the following) article, but mind that the Austro-Hungarian monarchy was formed some years after the railroad from Vienna to Trieste, accross Slovenia, was built!

The Austrian Southern Railway (German Südbahn) was a former railway company during the time of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Today, the term is still used to refer to the railway lines which were formerly operated by it. Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ...

Originally, the railway company operated services between Vienna and Trieste. The connection between Vienna and Gloggnitz was constructed from 1839 to 1842 by the private Wien-Gloggnitzer Eisenbahn, and the connection from Mürzzuschlag via Graz and Ljubljana to Trieste between 1842 and 1857 by the government. The two lines were connected by the Semmering Railway, when the railway over the Semmering was built according to plans made by Carl Ritter von Ghega between 1848 and 1854. In 1858, all lines were sold to the privately owned Südbahngesellschaft, which constructed another line from Maribor via Klagenfurt, Villach and Lienz to Franzensfeste. The company was nationalized only in 1923. Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine states (Land Wien). ... Location within Italy Trieste (Latin Tergeste, Italian Trieste,German and Friulian Triest, Slovenian and Croatian Trst, ) is a city in northeastern Italy, capital of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region and Trieste province, population 211,184 (2001). ... Gloggnitz - a Mountain Town // Facts Altitude: 442 m Area: 0,4 km² Inhabitants: 5596 Municipal area: 19,554 km² Houses: 1713 Gloggnitz is situated in the south-western part of the Vienna Basin in Lower Austria. ... 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Mürzzuschlag is a town in Styria, Austria, with a population of 9,569 (2001). ... The Graz Schlossberg Clock Tower Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 300,000 (in 2005) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German). ... Tromostovje (Tromostovje) and Franciscan church (FrančiÅ¡kanska cerkev) in baroque style in the back Ljubljana (IPA ), German Laibach (), Italian Lubiana () is the capital of Slovenia, situated on the outfall of the river Ljubljanica into the Sava, in central Slovenia, between the Alps and the Mediterranean. ... 1842 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Semmering Railway at Mürzzuschlag, around 1900 The Semmering Railway, Austria, which starts at Gloggnitz and leads over the Semmering to Mürzzuschlag is commonly referred to as the worlds first mountain railway, especially given the very difficult terrain and difference in height. ... The Semmering is a mountain pass in the Eastern Northern Limestone Alps connecting Lower Austria and Styria between which it forms a natural border. ... Carl Ritter von Ghega (January 10, 1802 - March 14, 1860), was the designer of the Semmering Railway from Gloggnitz to Mürzzuschlag. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1854 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1858 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Area: 147. ... Klagenfurt is the capital of the federal state of Austrian Carinthia (German Kärnten, in Austria, on the Glan River. ... Villach (Slovenian Beljak) is the second largest city in Carinthia in the south of Austria, on the river Drau (Slovenian Drave) . It currently has 57,646 inhabitants. ... Lienz is a medieval city in Tyrol, Austria. ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Today, the term Südbahn is commonly used within Austria for the railway from Vienna via Bruck an der Mur and Klagenfurt and Villach to Italy (Tarvisio), and the branch from Bruck to Graz and then to Slovenia. Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]; Hungarian: Bécs, Czech: Vídeň, Slovak: Viedeň, Romany Vidnya; Serbian: Beč) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine states (Land Wien). ... Bruck an der Mur is a city in the Austrian province of Styria. ... Tarvisio is a town in Italy located in the northeastern part of the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in the Province of Udine, at the border both to Austria and Slovenia, in the Val Canale. ... The Graz Schlossberg Clock Tower Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec, pronounced grah-dets), with a population of 300,000 (in 2005) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the federal state of Styria (Steiermark in German). ...

The Vienna South Station was destroyed in World War II and rebuilt in 1956, when Vienna East Station was integrated into it. The railway from Vienna to Tarvisio had been equipped with electric power lines by 1963, the branch to Graz and Slovenia by 1966. World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrination, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...