Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof is the largest railway station in the
Lower Franconian city of
Schweinfurt
Schweinfurt ( , ; ) is a city in the district of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the surrounding district (''Landkreis'') of Schweinfurt and a major industrial, cultural and educational hub. The urban agg ...
and its transfer hub to the majority of regional buses. In addition to the Hauptbahnhof, the
Schweinfurt Mitte (Schweinfurt Central) and
Schweinfurt Stadt (Schweinfurt Town) stations also lie within the city, closer to the centre, on the
Bamberg–Würzburg railway.
Importance
The station is no longer served by long-distance traffic since the introduction of the
Interregio line from Stuttgart via Würzburg and Schweinfurt to Erfurt in 2001. It still has an important role, however, in regional and local rail services.
There are currently passenger services on the following lines:
* ''KBS 803'' (Schweinfurt–) Bad Kissingen–Gemünden (Main) (
Franconian Saale Valley Railway), single-tracked main line
* ''KBS 810'' Würzburg–Schweinfurt–Haßfurt–Bamberg (
Bamberg–Würzburg railway), double-tracked main line
* ''KBS 815/570'' Schweinfurt–Bad Neustadt (Saale)–Meiningen /–Erfurt (
Schweinfurt–Meiningen railway
The Schweinfurt–Meiningen railway, route number 5240, is a single-tracked main line in the states of Bavaria and Saxony in southern Germany. It is also called the ''Main-Rhön-Bahn'' ("Main- Rhön railway") and is listed in the Deutsche Bahn ...
), single-tracked main line
On the single-tracked branch line
Kitzingen–Schweinfurt there is still goods traffic between
Gochsheim and Schweinfurt, the rest of the line to
Kitzingen
Kitzingen () is a town in the Germany, German state of Bavaria, capital of the Kitzingen (district), district Kitzingen. It is part of the Franconia geographical region and has around 21,000 inhabitants. Surrounded by vineyards, Kitzingen County i ...
-Etwashausen is unused.
Links to regional and local services
Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof is embedded in the Deutsche Bahn network as shown below
(as at: 2006/2007 timetable):
Schweinfurt Hbf is a timetable hub (''Taktknoten''), i.e. every hour on the hour trains arrive on the three main lines and depart shortly after the hour again. Included in this system are the three Regional-Express links and the trains of EIB Line 4. There is an hourly service to Würzburg and Bamberg which is achieved by overlapping the two RE lines, and on the routes to Bad Kissingen and Meiningen/Erfurt there is also an hourly service which alternates between RE and EIB trains. On the Würzburg–Bamberg route the frequency of RE trains is supplemented by the use of RegionalBahn services; likewise the EIB Linie 5 Schweinfurt–Gemünden (Main), bolsters the section to Bad Kissingen.
Infrastructure
Station building
The station building at Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof is on the north side of the tracks. After the original building had been destroyed by bomb attacks in the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
, a modern, functional building was erected after the war in the style of the 1950s. The two-storey building houses a Deutsche Bahn travel centre (''ReiseZentrum''), toilets, lockers and several shops.
Traffic station
The station has five through platforms for passengers. Two bay platforms directly in front of the station building are no longer needed for scheduled services since trains from Bad Kissingen and Meiningen now pass through the Hauptbahnhof and stop at the more centrally-sited Schweinfurt Stadt station. All platforms have a height of 38 cm and are accessed by flights of stairs from an underpass.
References
External links
*{{commonscat-inline, Schweinfurt Hauptbahnhof
Station fact file in the data bank of the Bavarian Railway Company (''Bayerischen Eisenbahngesellschaft'')
*[http://reiseauskunft.bahn.de/bin/bhftafel.exe/dn?seqnr=3&ident=m1.01448763.1174326775&evaId=8000032&boardType=dep&time=05:00&productsDefault=1111101&dateBegin=19.03.07&dateEnd=&start=yes Departure timetable on the Deutsche Bahn website]
Railway stations in Bavaria
Buildings and structures in Schweinfurt, Hauptbahnhof