Kehl station is a railway station in

Kehl Kehl (; gsw, label= Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic, Kaal) is a town in southwestern Germany in the Ortenaukreis, Baden-Württemberg. It is on the river Rhine, directly opposite the French city of Strasbourg, with which it shares some munic ...

, a town in southwestern

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in the

Ortenaukreis Ortenaukreis ( gsw, label= Low Alemannic, Ortenaukrais; french: Arrondissement de l'Ortenau) is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (clockwise from north) Rastatt, Freudenstadt, Rottwe ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

. It is situated on the

Appenweier–Strasbourg railway The Appenweier–Strasbourg railway is a major railway line linking the French TGV station at Strasbourg with the German Rhine Valley Railway (''Rheintalbahn'') and the Karlsruhe–Basel high-speed railway (between Offenburg and Baden-Baden Ba ...

, with trains crossing the

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into France to reach the latter destination. Both sides being within the

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, no passport or border controls apply.

History

The line opened in 1844. Since June 2007, TGV trains run from

Paris Est The Gare de l'Est (; English: "Station of the East" or "East station"), officially Paris-Est, is one of the six large mainline List of Paris railway stations, railway station termini in Paris, France. It is located in the 10th arrondissement of ...

Strasbourg Strasbourg (, , ; german: Straßburg ; gsw, label=Bas Rhin Alsatian, Strossburi , gsw, label=Haut Rhin Alsatian, Strossburig ) is the prefecture and largest city of the Grand Est region of eastern France and the official seat of the Eu ...

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

and

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. Therefore, since 10 June 2007 the ''Ortenau-S-Bahn'' has operated railcars every hour (and sometimes every half-hour) between Offenburg and Strasbourg. This change extended previous services to Strasbourg including services formerly ending in Kehl.

Services

InterCity

Regional

Trams

Since 29 April 2017, Strasbourg's tram line D has been running to Kehl and used to terminate at Kehl station. Since November 2018, the tram extends into the town centre "Kehl Rathaus".

References

External links

Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg {{BadenWürttemberg-struct-stub