Bad Ems is a station in the town of

Bad Ems Bad Ems () is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Rhein-Lahn rural district and is well known as a spa on the river Lahn. Bad Ems is the seat of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' (administrative community) Ba ...

in the German state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...

. It is on the

Lahntal railway The Lahntal railway (German: ''Lahntalbahn'') is a railway line between Niederlahnstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate to Wetzlar in Hesse. Its western terminus was originally in Oberlahnstein. Trains now mostly operate between Kob ...

( Koblenz–

Wetzlar Wetzlar () is a city in the state of Hesse, Germany. It is the twelfth largest city in Hesse with currently 55,371 inhabitants at the beginning of 2019 (including second homes). As an important cultural, industrial and commercial center, the un ...

). The entrance building is heritage-listed.

Construction

The station has an entrance hall, an extension formerly used as a ''Fürstenbahnhof'' ("Princes' station", that it was built to be used by royalty) and a

train shed A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. It is also known as an overall roof. Its primary purpose is to store and protect from the elements train car ...

built by

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in 1910; which is the smallest train shed in the DB network. It was built because of the great importance of Bad Ems as a spa before the First World War. The ensemble is given heritage protection as a cultural monument. A pedestrian subway, which was built later, connects the entrance building with the island platform and ''Braubacher Straße'' (L 327) on the other side of the station. The entrance is equipped with a

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. An extension to the station building contains remains of paintings on the ceiling. This contains stairs and a lift connecting with the subway to the platform and to ''Braubacher Straße.'' In the meantime the station was classified as a ''Haltepunkt'' (halt). Station points were installed and the signals were renewed in August 2015 to allow more trains to pass over the Lahntal railway during the busiest periods. The installation of points meant that it was reclassified from a halt to a station.

Tracks

The station has a platform with two platform tracks: * track 1 (length: 277 metre; height: 34/55 cm): trains to

Koblenz Hauptbahnhof Koblenz Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the city of Koblenz in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is the focal point of rail transport in the Rhine-Moselle-Lahn area. It is a through station in southern Koblenz built below Fort G ...

* track 2 (length: 272 metre; height: 34/55 cm): trains to Limburg (Lahn) and

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Connections

Trains

The following services stop in Bad Ems station:

Buses

The following bus routes stop at the nearest bus stop, called ''Bad Ems Hauptbahnhof'': * 456:

– Welschneudorf–

Montabaur Montabaur () is a town and the district seat of the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. At the same time, it is also the administrative centre of the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Montabaur – a kind of collective municipality – to w ...

* 547: Bad Ems town route * 557: Bad Ems–

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–

Neuhäusel Neuhäusel is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The community has been since early 2006 a major investment and activity centre for village renewal ...

(– Koblenz)

References

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