Visit of the Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB)-Technische Services GmbH

On 4 November 2025 a delegation of 17 members and guests of the CdH gathered at the main security gate of the ÖBB Technical Services Matzleinsdorf vehicle light maintenance depot at 1pm.

From there the CdH delegation was taken to a conference room where Mr Alexander Brantner, of ÖBB TS, gave a presentation of the facility and its activities.  Here it was explained that the Matzleinsdorfer facility is responsible for the light maintenance of a large range of railway vehicles (rolling stock), including many types of ÖBB locomotives and various types of passenger rolling stock such as RailJet push-pull trainsets of the ÖBB and of Czech national railways, conventional passenger carriages of both daytime and night train services, multiple-unit sets, and double decker trainsets. ICE high speed trainsets of German Railways (Deutsche Bahn) are also serviced here.

 After the presentation the visitors were taken on a tour of the site. In the main maintenance workshop, the largest building of the facility (240 metres long), complete trainsets can be housed without having to uncouple the vehicles. Here a wide variety of rolling stock could be seen being serviced.

 Only light maintenance of rolling stock is carried out in the Matzleinsdorf depot. Heavy maintenance, whereby vehicles need to be partly or fully dissembled, is carried out in other depots of the ÖBB, two of which are also in Vienna. But Matzleinsdorf does have a wheel lathe facility where the wheel treads of rolling stock wheels are machined to remove wheel flats and restore correct tread profiles without having to remove the wheelsets from the vehicles. By chance the facility was in action when the CdH delegation passed through that area.

After an event which lasted most of the afternoon, the visitors departed having gained a good understanding of the light maintenance work, and associated investment, that is needed to keep the railways running efficiently and the challenges which the Matzleinsdorf facility sometimes has to contend with when the unexpected happens and rolling stock scheduled for maintenance cannot arrive when planned, or when unscheduled maintenance needs to be carried out on an urgent basis.