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Rhein-Neckar S-Bahn
The Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn ''(S-Bahn RheinNeckar)'' forms the backbone of the urban rail transport network of the Rhine Neckar Area, including the cities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Ludwigshafen. The S-Bahn operates over 437 km of route in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg, and in small sections in Saarland and Hesse. S-Bahn trains operate about 7.5 million kilometres per year, with 113 stations served by class 425 electric multiple units. Network The S-Bahn is about 440 km long and is one of the largest S-Bahn networks in Germany. The core area is in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg. At Homburg (Saar), it touches the Saarland and it has three stations in Hesse between Neckarsteinach and Hirschhorn. Four of the seven lines run together on the core Schifferstadt–Ludwigshafen–Mannheim–Heidelberg section. Beyond this main line, the S-Bahn operates over six lines with terminuses in Homburg, Osterburken, Karlsruhe, Germe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
15 KV AC Railway Electrification
Railway electrification systems using at are used on transport railways in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, and Norway. The high voltage enables high power transmission with the lower frequency reducing the losses of the traction motors that were available at the beginning of the 20th century. Railway electrification in late 20th century tends to use AC systems which has become the preferred standard for new railway electrifications but extensions of the existing networks are not completely unlikely. In particular, the Gotthard Base Tunnel (opened on 1 June 2016) still uses 15 kV, 16.7 Hz electrification. Due to high conversion costs, it is unlikely that existing systems will be converted to despite the fact that this would reduce the weight of the on-board step-down transformers to one third that of the present devices. History The first electrified railways used series-wound DC motors, first at 600 V and then 1,500 V. Areas with 3 kV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schifferstadt Station
Schifferstadt station is a separation station in the town of Schifferstadt in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where the Speyer line branches off from the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway. History The station is on the first section of the Palatine Ludwig Railway ( Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway), inaugurated between Neustadt and Ludwigshafen in 1847. The line from Speyer and Germersheim was opened in the same year. Since 12 March 1964, electric trains have run through Schifferstadt. With the opening of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, the station became a junction of the Rhine-Neckar network, with S-Bahn lines S1 and S2 (towards Kaiserslautern) and lines S3 and S4 (towards Germersheim) separating there. In the evenings Schifferstadt station is also a terminus of some S-Bahn trains. Station facilities The station building houses a signal box, a ticket office and a kiosk. In the station area there are also telephone booths, bicycle parking, and a park and ride parking area. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof
Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof is a through-station in the German city of Kaiserslautern and one of seven stations in the city. It is a stop on the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn and Deutsche Bahn’s Intercity-Express network and a hub for all the regional trains of the western Palatinate. On 10 June 2007, the ''Rhealys'' high-speed rail consortium established a service with a stop in Kaiserslautern, reducing travel time to Paris to two and a half hours. In 2003, the station building was renovated and it now houses among other things, a service point and several shops. The station provides step-free access to all platforms. The redesigned Kaiserslautern station forecourt includes a busy bus station, allowing a convenient transfer between bus and rail. Buses run to the University of Kaiserslautern, Betzenberg and the central bus interchanges at Schillerplatz and Rathaus, where there are connections to all bus routes. Prior to the closure of the Einsiedlerhof marshalling yard, Kaiserslautern wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof
Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the town of Homburg in the German state of Saarland. It is a through station with four platforms and seven platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a station of category 3. It is located at the junction of the Homburg–Neunkirchen line and the Mannheim–Saarbrücken line (Palatine Ludwig Railway). It has been the western terminus of line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn since 2006. Location The station divides the town into two halves, separating Homburg-Mitte and Homburg-Erbach. It is about 700 metres away from the town centre. In front of the station area is the central bus station (''ZOB''), from which both regional and local buses operate. History On 1 July 1848, the line between Kaiserslautern and Homburg was opened. Nine years later, on 7 May 1857, the Blies Valley Railway was opened to Zweibrücken. The Homburg–Rohrbach line, now part of the mainline between Mannheim and Saarbrücken, opened to traff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bensheim Station
Bensheim station is in the town of Bensheim on the Main-Neckar Railway, connecting Frankfurt and Heidelberg, in the German state of Hesse. The station is also the beginning and end of the single-track non-electrified Worms–Bensheim line (Nibelung Railway). 114 trains stop at Bensheim station every day, of which about one-third are long-distance services. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. Bensheim station is protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian heritage legislation. History Almost eleven years after the Adler locomotive began to run over the Bavarian Ludwig Railway between Nuremberg and Fürth, the Main-Neckar Railway was opened in 1846. Bensheim station was opened in the same year. The building of this artery through three small states in the Rhine valley stimulated trade and industry throughout the region. In 1851, the Auerbach district—then still a separate municipality—gained its own station. In 1869, the Nibelungen railway, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mainz Hauptbahnhof
Mainz Hauptbahnhof ("Mainz main station", formerly known as ''Centralbahnhof Mainz''von Meyer, Arthur (1891). ''Geschichte und Geographie der deutschen Eisenbahnen von ihrer Entstehung bis auf die Gegenwart'', W. Baensch, p. 1131) is a railway station for the city of Mainz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is used by about 60,000 travelers and visitors each day and is therefore by far the busiest station in Rhineland-Palatinate. The station was a trial area for a CCTV scheme using automated face recognition. History The current station was built as a central station from 1882 to 1884 according to the plans of Philipp Johann Berdellé (1838–1903) as part of the expansion of the city after the Franco-Prussian War. Origins Under the ''Rheinschifffahrtsakte'' (Rhine navigation treaty) of 1831, Mainz lost its right to impose a ''stapelrecht'' (pile right, a medieval right apparently first granted by Charlemagne to some cities, including Mainz, to require river t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aglasterhausen Station
Aglasterhausen station is the terminus of the Meckesheim–Neckarelz railway in Aglasterhausen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It has one platform and is located in the network administered by the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (VRN). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 7 station. It was opened with the Odenwald Railway (''Odenwaldbahn'') from Heidelberg to Würzburg as a through station on 23 October 1862. The section from Aglasterhausen to Obrigheim was closed on 25 September 1971, turning Aglasterhausen station into a terminus. It has been the terminus of line S51 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn since June 2010. History The Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway, which operated railways in Baden from 1840 to 1920, when it was integrated into Deutsche Reichsbahn, commenced operations of the Baden Odenwald railway between Heidelberg, Meckenheim, Aglasterhausen and Mosbach on 23 October 1862. With the opening of the Neckar Valley Railway on the Neckargemünd–N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eppingen Station
Eppingen station is the station of Eppingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a junction station, where the so-called ''Kraichgau-Stromberg-Bahn'' ("Kraichgau-Stromberg railway", referring to two nearby regions), the Steinsfurt–Eppingen railway branches from the Kraichgau Railway (''Kraichgaubahn'', Heilbronn Eppingen–Karlsruhe railway). It is served by services on S4 line of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn and the Heilbronn Stadtbahn on the one hand and services on the line S5 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn on the other hand. Entrance building The entrance building was built in 1879 according to plans of the Karlsruhe architect Ludwig Diemer in the Italian Renaissance Revival Renaissance Revival architecture (sometimes referred to as "Neo-Renaissance") is a group of 19th century architectural revival styles which were neither Greek Revival nor Gothic Revival but which instead drew inspiration from a wide range o ... style. The building has belonged since 1 Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruchsal Station
Bruchsal station is the centre of the rail transport in the city of Bruchsal in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. History The original station of the baroque town of Bruchsal opened on 10 April 1843 as part of the Karlsruhe–Heidelberg section of the old Baden main line, which eventually connected Mannheim via Heidelberg, Karlsruhe, Baden-Baden and Freiburg to Basel and was initially built with 1600 mm (5 ft 3 in) broad gauge. A few years later the line was duplicated. The station gained more importance with the opening on 1 October 1853 of the Württemberg Western Railway (''Westbahn''), which connected Stuttgart and Bruchsal. The Western Railway originally had its own standard gauge ''Württemberger Bahnhof'' (station) with two platform tracks, which was located on the eastern side of the original Baden station (''Badischen Bahnhof''). The locomotive depot and goods yard of the Württemberg railway were built to the south of the station. Since Baden's broad gauge wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germersheim Station
Germersheim station is a junction station in the town of Germersheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 5 station and it has four platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the ''Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund'' (Karlsruhe Transport Association, KVV) and belongs to fare zone 575. Since 1996, Germersheim has also been part of the area where the tickets of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) are accepted at a transitional rate. The address of the station is ''Bahnhofstraße 13''. The station was opened on 14 March 1864 as the terminus of the first section of the branch line from Schifferstadt to Speyer. On 16 May 1872, it became the eastern terminus of a line from Landau. The line from Schifferstadt was extended to Wörth on 25 July 1876. On 15 May of the following year, the Bruhrain Railway from Bruchsal was extended from Rheinsheim across the Rhine to Germersheim. The line to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof
Karlsruhe Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the German city of Karlsruhe. The station is classified as a Category 1 station, as it is a major hub where several railways connect. History Old station When the Baden Mainline was built between Mannheim and Basel, the original Karlsruhe station was built on Kriegsstraße between Ettlinger Tor and Mendelssohnplatz about 500 metres south of Karlsruher Marktplatz, the central square of Karlsruhe. The station was designed by Friedrich Eisenlohr and it was opened on 1 April 1843 with two platforms. From the beginning, it was designed as a through station. South of the station there was a locomotive depot and to its east there was a freight yard and a central workshop. It was built to Irish gauge (), as were all railways built by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway in the early days. It was converted to standard gauge in 1855. In the following years other routes were connected to Karlsruhe station: in 1859 the line to Stuttgart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osterburken Station
Osterburken station is at the junction of the Franconia Railway and the Neckarelz–Osterburken railway. It is served by Regionalbahn, Regional-Express and Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn services. Location The station is located about 300 metres from central Osterburken. History The Royal Württemberg State Railways (''Königlich Württembergischen Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or K.W.St.E.) opened the station in 1866 as the terminus of the Lower Jagst Railway (''Untere Jagstbahn'') from Heilbronn to Osterburken, now considered part of the Franconia Railway. At the same time the Mannheim–Würzburg railway (''Odenwaldbahn'') railway was opened. At the end of March 1945, an "evacuation" train with detainees from the Neckarelz concentration camp was parked near the station for three days. Nine of the detainees died and were buried in a common grave at what is now the old cemetery; a memorial stone is located there. Services on line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn commenced at the 2003/2004 tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
