ÖBB InfoRail

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A mobile exhibition touring Austria to give insight into the construction projects along the ÖBB South Route.

CLIENT

ÖBB Infrastruktur / Südstrecke

IN COOPERATION WITH

Andreas Strauss
WHY.

BUILT BY

Apprentices of the ÖBB Floridsdorf training workshop

INTERFACE DESIGN & TECHNICAL DIRECTION

BILDWERK

Take a seat – take your time. The InfoRail Südstrecke invites visitors to linger and, on its tour across Austria, offers a glimpse into the projects along the South Route. Nine red metal pipes, 50 metres of real track, 12 original Cityjet seats, 3 interactive video installations, a relief map and countless photo and information panels deliver facts and tell the stories of the people working on them.

The mobile exhibition was built by apprentices of the ÖBB Floridsdorf training workshop together with Andreas Strauss and WHY. BILDWERK successfully pitched their concept against competing agencies and subsequently took over interface design and technical direction.

01

Opening at Vienna Central Station

Red InfoRail tunnel modules outside Vienna Central Station at sunset, visitors studying the information panels
Display wall with numbered panels on South Route projects such as the Semmering Base Tunnel and Koralm Railway
Teenagers seated on Cityjet seats inside a red-lit exhibition module at Vienna Central Station
Two men discussing the photo and information panels of the InfoRail at the opening
Visitors walking along the real rail track through the exhibition's red rings at Vienna Central Station
Overview of the red exhibition modules on the forecourt of Vienna Central Station in the evening light
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Assembly at Vienna Central Station

Set-up at Vienna Central Station: technicians wiring seats and lights inside the open tunnel frame
Power distribution box inside an exhibition module during assembly, with cables and mounting rods
Red tunnel modules branded ÖBB Infra being assembled in front of the Vienna Central Station entrance
Close-up of workers fitting the rails into the floor of a module branded Südstrecke mehr erfahren
Crew bolting the steel floor frame between the red rings of the InfoRail during set-up
Build crew levering rails into place, with the entrance of Vienna Central Station behind them
View through the bare red rings towards the build crew beneath the ÖBB sign
Cordoned-off InfoRail build site on the rain-soaked station square as travellers pass by
Elevated view of the half-built exhibition modules and material racks at Vienna Central Station
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Ferienmesse Vienna

InfoRail at Ferienmesse Vienna: visitors on Cityjet seats beside screens and a relief map of the South Route
Couple resting inside a tunnel module, an original ÖBB seat in the foreground of the trade fair hall
Theme wall Schaffen with photos of tunnel construction and line drawings of a tunnel boring machine
Children and parents inside the InfoRail, with screens of an interactive video installation on the right
The exhibition's red modules lined up along the glass facade of a hall at Ferienmesse Vienna

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