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81 — Otto Wagner — 3/5 — On the Stadtbahn

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The Submerged and Elevated Railways

The idea is it's an urban railway there was a big plan to do quite a lot more than they eventually did. It's kind of railways connecting the outer suburbs and bringing them into you know into and through the center in this sort of classic European S-barne model. The two most famous stations which are atypical are the one at Carl's Platz which is sort of secession style one and there's also a famous one the hoof pavilion built for the use of the imperial family.

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