Spielfeld-Straß railway station
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| Location | Spielfeld, Straß in Steiermark Austria | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 46°42′35″N 15°37′45″E / 46.70975°N 15.629167°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Elevation | 263 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | ÖBB | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 8100082 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1848 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Spielfeld-Straß station is a border station on the Southern Railway and the line to Trieste in Straß in Steiermark, in southern Steiermark by the Austrian- Slovenian border. Next to the ÖBB station, there is also an office staffed by Slovenian Railways (Slovenske železnice, SŽ), which calls the station Špilje.
The station is located in Spielfeld, on the right (south) bank of the Mur and is about 2.2 km from the national border and 4.5 km from the Slovenian border station of Šentilj. The town of Straß in Steiermark, which the station is partly named after, is located about two kilometres north of the station.
The station is 257.9 km from Vienna on the Southern Railway and 615 km from Belgrade on the Spielfeld-Straß–Trieste railway and 263m above sea level. The station is also the starting point of the Radkersburg Railway, which runs to the east over the Mur Bridge to Bad Radkersburg.
All international trains used to stop in Spielfeld-Straß for passport control and to change staff between 1918 and December 2007, when Slovenia joined the Schengen Agreement. Customs controls ended in May 2004.
