Badgastein Transportation

Bad Gastein is on the railway route that connects Salzburg to the southern part of Austria. It takes about one hour and a half to get to Salzburg, while Villach, in the other direction, is about one hour away.
It is nice to look at the timetable of trains, because they show also their further destinations: Venice, Croatia, Belgrade ... It gives a cosmopolitan feeling to this little station.

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Those who travel to Bad Gastein from the South, i.e. through Carinthia, will find that the most direct route is through the railway tunnell.
Between the stations of Mallnitz and Boeckstein there is a regular service of special trains that carry cars.
They are scheduled every hour (every 30 minutes on weekends in the high season). The train can carry many cars and there are no reservations to be made.
If you want to use this train, you must be at the station at least 5 minutes before the time of departure, and queue at the toll gate, when your turn comes you pay the fee (17 euro per car), the passengers go directly to the passengers' wagon while the driver parks the car on the train. Then he/she joins the passengers because remaining inside the cars during the journey is forbidden.
The whole procedure is simple and fast, but it is important to know in advance all the rules, especially the size limit of vehicles (max height is m 3.7, max width m 2.1).

Anyone travelling by road from the south near Klagenfurt to Badgastein will most likely come via the Katschberghöhe mountain pass.

Katschberghöhe is a popular winter sport resort but there are also many great hiking trails to be enjoyed during those warm summer months.

Trains: BAD GASTEIN: the station is in town at Bahnhofpl. Trains to: Salzburg (1 ½ hr., 10 per day, 184 ATS), Vienna (5 ½ hr., at 7:18 and 17:18, 540ATS), Villach (1 ½ hr., 10 per day, 166 ATS), Zurich (8 ½ hr., at 0:10), Munich (3 ½ hr.,3 per day), Beograd (12 hrs., at 4:59), Venice (5 hrs., at 10:45) .

BAD HOFGASTEIN: the station is about 3km to the north (10 min. by train from Bad Gastein). All trains stop in both Bad Gastein and Bad Hofgastein.