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Stern und Hafferl Verkehr

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Austrian train, bus, and boat operator

Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. is a transport company and wholly owned subsidiary of Stern Gruppe. It operates train and bus services in Upper Austria, Austria. The company owns and operates 105 km (65 mi) of railways which carry 4.7 million passengers per year.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

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Stern & Hafferl Verkehrsgesellschaft m.b.H. is a transport company and wholly owned subsidiary of Stern Gruppe. It operates train and bus services in Upper Austria, Austria. The company owns and operates 105 km (65 mi) of railways which carry 4.7 million passengers per year. Since 2005 the company has also worked in partnership with Rail Cargo Group in rail freight and from the end of 2012 has provided locomotives for Rail Cargo Group trains on the Salzkammergut railway line and transports 9.4 million tonnes of freight per year.2

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Stern and Hafferl operate services on four different railway lines:

Linzer Lokalbahn: Linz - Eferding - Neumarkt im Hausruckkreis / Peuerbach (Line S5 of the Upper Austria S-Bahn)

Atterseebahn: Vöcklamarkt - St.Georgen im Attergau - Attersee

Vorchdorferbahn: Lambach - Vorchdorf

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Traunseebahn: Vorchdorf - Gmunden

The company also operates bus services and the Gmunden Tramway, which since 2018 has been connected to the Traunseebahn with through services operating over both.

A sister company, Atterseeschifffahrt, operates ferry services on the Attersee.

Stern & Hafferl also used to operate another four railway lines:

Lambach - Haag am Hausruck, closed in December 2009

Bürmoos - Ostermiething, transferred to Salzburger Lokalbahn in 1994

Florianerbahn: Ebelsberg - Sankt Florian, closed in 1973

Unterach am Attersee - See am Mondsee tramway, closed in 1951

From Wikipedia’s article on Stern & Hafferl Verkehr, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

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