There are six railway stations in the town of Coburg in Bavaria, southern

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. These include: two

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s, three halts and one

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Coburg station

Coburg station is the most important

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in the town of

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and its surrounding area. From here railway lines run to Bad Rodach, to Sonneberg, to Lichtenfels,

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and Kulmbach. From 2017, an

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will call daily at Coburg, briefly leaving the nearby

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. The station has five tracks a "Service-Center" and several shops in the station building. All Franconia Bus Company (''Omnibusverkehr Franken'' or ''OVF'') lines stop at the station as do all but one of the town bus routes (SÜC). Since 2007 a central bus station has been under construction immediately next to Coburg station. Whilst the station is described simply as a ''Bahnhof'' by the railways, the local bus stops and bus timetables usually refer to it as the ''

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''.

Creidlitz station

Creidlitz station is located on the south side of the town of Coburg on the Werra Railway at kilometre stone 134.77 between Coburg station and the halt at

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. Despite having two platforms and being described as a ''Bahnhof'', it is not particularly important nowadays, only the Regionalbahn trains to Coburg and those in the opposite direction to Lichtenfels stop here. The trains to Lichtenfels leave from the eastern 'home platform, number 1, and trains to Coburg from platform 2, an island platform with no subway. The red brick station building was built at the end of the 19th century. Due to its age, it is one of the most important station buildings in the Coburg district and is a

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.Peter Morsbach, Otto Titz: ''Stadt Coburg. Ensembles-Baudenkmäler-Archäologische Denkmäler''. Denkmäler in Bayern. Band IV.48. Karl M. Lipp Verlag, München 2006, , Seite 442 During the construction of the

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to Rossach in 1900 the station, which is located between branching tracks, was built with two platforms in 1911; whene the second line to Coburg was built it was expanded by a further platform. On the eastern side are the two tracks of the Werra railway and on the western side, the Itzgrund railway track and a second, parallel, track for the

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. In 1950 the station, including the Rossach branch, was electrified. In 2004 the Rossach branch was closed. Because the section of line to Lichtenfels is single-tracked, trains often cross at the station. In 2008 the station still had semaphore signals and manually operated level crossing barriers. Next to the station is a bus stop with the same name - Creidlitz/Bahnhof - which is served by one of the town bus lines as well as busses of the OVF.

Coburg-Nord halt

Coburg-Nord halt lies on the Coburg–Sonneberg line between Coburg station and the halt at Dörfles-Esbach at kilometre stone 1.3. It was built in the trackbed of the old line to

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and taken into operation on 11 December 2005 together with

Rödental Rödental () is a town in the district of Coburg, northern Bavaria, Germany, 7 km northeast of Coburg. Rödental was the name given to a group of municipalities that united 1971, including Mönchröden, Oeslau, Einberg, Oberwohlsbach and U ...

-Mitte station. The platform is 140 m long and is located behind the Coburg tax office on Rodacher Strasse.

Coburg-Neuses halt

Coburg-Neuses halt is situated between Coburg station and Wiesenfeld halt at kilometre marker 1.99. The halt was originally a station, but was later downgraded to a halt. The Coburg–Bad Rodach '' Regionalbahn'' trains call here every 2 hours. The stop has two tracks, the main running track by the platform and the siding with a branch to the incinerating plant. The station is rather insignificant because there are very good bus connexions to Neuses. Since 1999 the station building has been home to the Steinach Valley Railway Society (''Eisenbahnfreunde Steinachtalbahn-Coburg'').

Coburg-Beiersdorf halt

Many years ago there was also a halt at Beiersdorf that was on the line to Bad Rodach. This was closed due to low passenger numbers and competition from good bus services in this part of the town.

Goods station

The

is south of Coburg station at kilometre post 131.8 on the Werra railway.

Sources

Wolfgang Bleiweis, Stefan Goldschmidt und Bernd Schmitt: ''Eisenbahnen im Coburger Land''. Resch Druck: Coburg 1996, {{ISBN, 3-9802748-4-5

References

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