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Ludwigsburg Ludwigsburg (; Swabian: ''Ludisburg'') is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, about north of Stuttgart city centre, near the river Neckar. It is the largest and primary city of the Ludwigsburg district with about 88,000 inhabitants. It is ...
in the German state of
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on the
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and the Backnang–Bietigheim line. It is served by regional trains and the
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. Until 2005 the Ludwigsburg–Markgröningen line also connected to the station. In addition, it has a direct link with
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's main marshalling yard at
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.


History

From the beginning of the planning for the Central Railway (german: Centralbahn), a station was planned for the ''Residenzstadt'' (city with a royal palace) of Ludwigsburg. Construction began in 1844 and affected several parts of the Ludwigsburg district. A portion of the Lerchenholz hill had to be removed. The site of the former Schafhofseen (lake) had to be filled in. Ludwigsburg station had a two-storey entrance building and a locomotive depot. On 5 October 1846 the first train ran to Ludwigsburg. The stops between Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg were not served by the
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until ten days later. The inauguration ceremony for the new line was held in Stuttgart. The Ludwigsburg city council took no part in it. Unfortunately for the locals the station was in a very unfavourable position. Due to the swampy area around the Feuersee (lake) there was only a narrow track that was very difficult to use in rain or snow. Carts could only approach the station via Solitudestraße and Leonbergerstraße. A direct road link had to be created as soon as possible. But the Government did not have the finances to achieve this. The construction continued on the Northern Railway. A year later, on 11 October 1847, the next section was completed and trains ran to
Bietigheim Bietigheim is a village in the district of Rastatt in Baden-Württemberg in Southwestern Germany. It is located east of the Rhine river and thus the border to France, west of the Black Forest (more precisely the Northern Black Forest), south of ...
. In 1852 the State Railways opened a second track on the line from Stuttgart to Bietigheim. In the 1860s another floor was added to the station building along with two wings. The southern wing was a building for mail handling, the north one was a waiting room. A loading dock existed for freight and military traffic. At the time there were five tracks running through the station. A sixth track was added as siding in 1868 to serve the factory of Heinrich Franck & Sons, which produced a
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from chickory. After ten years of construction, the road between Wilhelmsplatz (now Schillerplatz) and the station was completed in 1869. ''Eisenbahnstraße'' (railway street) was a short time later renamed ''Myliusstraße'' after General Ferdinand von Mylius who was considered the founder of the costly street. Stately buildings were built along the street and ''Bahnhofsvorplatz'' (station forecourt) such as the railway hotel (1870s), the general post office (1886) and the music hall (1890). On 15 October 1881 the State Railway opened the railway line between Ludwigsburg and Beihingen (now part of
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), connecting to the Backnang–Bietigheim line. Three terminating tracks were built on the north side of the entrance building to cater for the resulting traffic. From 1910 to 1926 the station forecourt was the starting point of the Ludwigsburg Overhead Line Railway (''Ludwigsburger Oberleitungs-Bahn''), an early
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operation. A branch line to Markgröningen was opened on 4 December 1916. The building of two additional tracks between Stuttgart and Ludwigsburg was completed in 1929. On 15 May 1933, electrification of two tracks to Stuttgart was completed and suburban services began to operate on the line. On 28 September 1975
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closed passenger operations on the line to Markgröningen due to lack of passengers. From the mid-1970s tracks in the station area were modified as part of the introduction of
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operations. The junction between the Northern Railway and the line to Backnang is now grade separated. The terminating tracks north of the station were built over. Despite an extensive renovation of the station and the waiting room in the 1950s, the station was outdated and still unpopular with some of the population. Its demolition in favour of a new building began in October 1987. It was one of a small number of stations that had survived
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to be demolished and replaced in
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. After several planning delays the groundbreaking ceremony for a new building took place in June 1991. The new building combines the station with a shopping centre. It was opened on 19 November 1992.


Operations

The station has five platform tracks. Regional trains stop at track 1 running towards Bietigheim. Track 2 is used by S-Bahn services to Bietigheim or Marbach. S-Bahn services towards
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run on track 3. Track 4 is used by regional trains to Stuttgart. Track 5 is not used by scheduled services. Long-distance services do not normally stop at Ludwigsburg, except for a night stop on an
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train from
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to Stuttgart and an
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from Stuttgart to
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. The station is classified by
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as a category 3 station.


Regional services


S-Bahn


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* {{Stuttgart S-Bahn Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart S-Bahn stations Buildings and structures in Ludwigsburg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1846