Bad Sobernheim station is a through station, 38.44 km from Bingen on the

Nahe Valley Railway The Nahe Valley Railway (german: Nahetalbahn) is a two-track, partially electrified main line railway in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, which runs for almost 100 kilometres along the Nahe (Rhine), Nahe. It was built by the ...

(Bingen–

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), in the town of

Bad Sobernheim Bad Sobernheim is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde'', and is also its seat. It is a state-recognized spa town, and is well known for two fossil discovery sites ...

in the district of

Bad Kreuznach Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, most well known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke, which is one of the few remaining bridges in th ...

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 classified by

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as a category 5 station.

Infrastructure

The heritage-listed entrance building was built in the early years of the Nahe Valley Railway during the second half of the 19th century. It consists of a two-story main building, built of sandstone

ashlar Ashlar () is finely dressed (cut, worked) stone, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared, or a structure built from such stones. Ashlar is the finest stone masonry unit, generally rectangular cuboid, mentioned by Vitruv ...

, with eight portals on the long sides, and flanked by single-storey wings with three portals. The three buildings are topped by slated

hip roof A hip roof, hip-roof or hipped roof, is a type of roof where all sides slope downwards to the walls, usually with a fairly gentle slope (although a tented roof by definition is a hipped roof with steeply pitched slopes rising to a peak). Thus, ...

s. From 2006 to 2007, the station was rebuilt and now has two 160 metre-long platforms on three platform tracks, lifts and an underpass. In 2012 the park-and-ride area was expanded. A “bike-and-ride” facility is located at the station to serve riders on the Nahe cycleway (''Nahe-Radweg'').

Rail services

From Monday to Sunday there is an hourly service by

Regional-Express In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h (top speed often 160 km/h) as it calls at f ...

and Regionalbahn services. Every two hours, the Regional-Express service continued directly to/from

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and

Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, also called Frankfurt Central Station and Frankfurt Main Station, is the busiest railway station in the German state of Hesse. Because of its location near the middle of Germany and usage as a transport hub for lo ...

. The station is served by buses coordinated by the ''Rhein-Nahe Nahverkehrsverbund'' (Rhine-Nahe Transport Association, RNN). In the local transport plan of the Bad Kreuznach district, it is planned to expand operations at the station as a network node.

Notes

External links

* {{cite web , url=http://www.nahebahn.de/nahebahn/sobernheim/1980/sobernheim80.html , title=Sobernheim 1980 - 1989 (photographs) , author=Frank Halter , accessdate=17 May 2013 , language=German , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827202836/http://www.nahebahn.de/nahebahn/sobernheim/1980/sobernheim80.html , archive-date=27 August 2012 , url-status=dead Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate Buildings and structures in Bad Kreuznach (district)