 The two stations were placed symmetrically, and both made use of the same depots and workyards.In the course of industrialisation, the need for rail transportation grew, and the Austrian railways passed from private hands into government control.The old "Raaber Bahnhof" was replaced between 1867 and 1870 by the "Centralbahnhof" ("central station"), designed by A. Schumann, then in 1910 by the "Staatsbahnhof" ("State station") and in 1914, the "Ostbahnhof" ("eastern station").