(Kaiserin Elisabeth-bahn), becoming a key junction for traffic to Bavaria and Salzburg. In addition to the main railway station at the southern edge of the city at the time, the Central Freight and Marshalling Yard for goods traffic was built in 1880.

The original Linz Central Station was destroyed during the Second World War and rebuilt between 1945 and 1950. Between 2000 and 2004, as part of the Austrian Federal Railways'