Koralm railway: Railway Station Weststeiermark

Forster gets you around at the Weststeiermark Railway Station

The Koralm railway and tunnel will start operations in December 2025. We are supplying several sign projects to ensure that passengers will make it to their destinations along the southern railway with a maximum of rapidity and convenience.

It was a successful “open-door day”: on 27 June 2025, half a year before the Weststeiermark railway station becomes operational, the Austrian Railways invited locals to an exclusive preview, including guided tours and a framework programme for families. It was a good opportunity to introduce to the general public the latest and largest railway station along the new Koralm railway. The future transport hub features nine tracks and 450 park&ride slots, connects to the network of cycle routes, and provides infrastructure for e-mobility and access for buses, coaches and cabs. In this way, Western Styria is fully interlinked thanks to the Koralm railway. 

High visibility day and night  

Forster supplied and installed the highly visible, prominent and well-known information signs of ÖBB and S-Bahn. They are made of a steel base and glass-fibre-reinforced plastic and are fitted with energy-saving, long-serving LEDs.

Barrier-free goes without saying 

Inside and outside the new station, information posts made of powder-coated aluminium are placed to provide orientation and guidance. They, too, are lit by LEDs. The station’s name is laser-cut, backed by acrylic glass and back-lit by LEDs. Tactile elements help handicapped passengers to overcome barriers. Their exchangeable signage consists of raised normal letters and Braille letters. Another bonus of the information posts is their invisible attachment. They can be removed at any time without damaging the floor.

Practical station signage solutions

A sustainable transport infrastructure naturally calls for a highly noticeable and informative sign system for the stations and stops. A key requirement to be met by bus and coach stops is conformity with a uniform signage scheme that is visible from afar. Forster had the right solution for exactly these purposes. The Combiflex posts, also made of powder-coated aluminium and fitted with integrated LED illumination, ensure that the bus platforms and schedules can be easily read even in the dark.

Koralm railway experience 

Already in December 2023, Forster supplied the signs for the first new station along the Koralm railway – the station at St. Paul im Lavanttal. Positioned between the 35-kilometre-long Koralm tunnel and the six kilometres of the Granitztal tunnel, the station acts as a major mobility hub.