Winden station is in the town of Winden 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 ...

and is its public transport node. At the station, the line to

Wissembourg Wissembourg (; South Franconian: ''Weisseburch'' ; German: ''Weißenburg'' ) is a commune in the Bas-Rhin department in Grand Est in northeastern France. It is situated on the little river Lauter close to the border between France and Germany a ...

Alsace Alsace (, ; ; Low Alemannic German/ gsw-FR, Elsàss ; german: Elsass ; la, Alsatia) is a cultural region and a territorial collectivity in eastern France, on the west bank of the upper Rhine next to Germany and Switzerland. In 2020, it had ...

branches off the

Palatine Maximilian Railway A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times.

(''Pfälzische Maximiliansbahn''), which runs from Neustadt an der Weinstraße to

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

. In addition, the ''Kurbadlinie'' ("Spa Line") branches off at the station to Bad Bergzabern. It is located at the eastern edge of the town. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.

History

Winden station was opened in 1855 as an intermediate station on the Maximilian Railway (Neustadt–

Landau Landau ( pfl, Landach), officially Landau in der Pfalz, is an autonomous (''kreisfrei'') town surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße ("Southern Wine Route") district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town (since 1990) ...

–Wissembourg). Nine years later it became the interchange station with the opening of the second branch of the Maximilian Railway to

via

Kandel Kandel () is a town in the Germersheim district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France and approximately 18 km north-west of Karlsruhe, and 15 km south-east of Landau. Kandel is twinned with the small Lancashir ...

and Wörth. Then in 1870 the Kurbadlinie was opened to Bergzabern. The section of the Maximilian Railway to Wissembourg was closed in 1975 and the Kurbadlinie was closed in 1981. As a result, platform track 1a, from which trains to Bad Bergzabern started, was dismantled. Both lines, however, were reactivated in 1995 and 1997. The station also had an important role in handling the transport of sugar until this traffic was discontinued in 1993. The freight tracks were then also dismantled. Winden station was modernised from 2005 to 2007, with the raising of the platforms to 55 cm above the rail and the installation of lifts. The platform canopy was originally built in a Romanesque style, but was replaced during the modernisation.

Rail services

Three services an hour run towards Neustadt from platform 3. In the opposite direction, two services an hour run to Karlsruhe and one an hour to Wissembourg. These stop either on platform track one or two. The trains running every hour from Bergzabern stop on platform 2. Similarly, a regular bus route runs to Bad Bergzabern, mainly to serve the villages that lie off of the spa line. The station is served 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 ...

services on the Karlsruhe–Neustadt route (generally stopping in Landau, Winden, Kandel and Wörth and some stopping in the peak hour in

Edenkoben Edenkoben () is a municipality in the Südliche Weinstraße district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It lies approximately halfway between Landau and Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Edenkoben is one of the towns situated along the German Wine R ...

, Karlsruhe-Knielingen, Karlsruhe-

Mühlburg Mühlburg, formerly a town on its own right, is a borough located in the west of Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The name ''Mühlburg'' could be translated as 'Mill Castle' and refers to a water mill and a water castle located at the sit ...

and Karlsruhe-West) and Regionalbahn services on the Karlsruhe–Neustadt route (stopping everywhere, except Karlsruhe Maxau and Maximiliansau Eisenbahnstraße) and the Neustadt–Wissembourg route (stopping at all stops, except on the section between Winden and Landau).

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