Zweibrücken Hauptbahnhof is a through station with two platforms and three platform tracks in the city of
Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken (; french: Deux-Ponts, ; Palatinate German: ''Zweebrigge'', ; literally translated as "Two Bridges") is a town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river.
Name
The name ''Zweibrücken'' means 'two bridges'; olde ...
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 ...
. It is located not far from the city centre, on the single-track, non-electrified,
Queich Valley Railway, over which
Regionalbahn trains operate between
Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof
Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof or Saarbrücken Central Station also called ''Eurobahnhof Saarbrucken'', is the principal railway station in the German city of Saarbrücken and the largest station in the Saarland, a German state on the border with Fran ...
and
Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof
Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof is a terminal station in the town of Pirmasens, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, about one kilometre from the city centre. It was opened on 25 November 1875 and is the terminus of the Biebermühl Railway (''Bieb ...
. It also connects with
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 ...
, although this requires a change of trains at
Pirmasens Nord.
History
On 7 May 1857, the
Blies Valley Railway (''Bliestalbahn'') was opened to neighbouring
Homburg, now in the
Saarland
The Saarland (, ; french: Sarre ) is a state of Germany in the south west of the country. With an area of and population of 990,509 in 2018, it is the smallest German state in area apart from the city-states of Berlin, Bremen, and Hamburg, and ...
. On 25 November 1875, the extension of the Queich Valley Railway from Annweiler was opened to traffic. The extension of the Blies Valley Railway to Bierbach and Reinheim was opened in 1879. The link from
Hornbach opened on 15 December 1913. Three years later, on 1 October 1916, the
Hornbach railway was extended to
Brenschelbach. After the Second World War, a series of closures and dismantlings were carried out. Until the 1980s the station was served by long-distance traffic of
Deutsche Bundesbahn
The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (German Federal Railway) was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). The DB remained ...
. Up to the station's reconstruction in 1991, when the number of track was reduced from 13 to four, the station was also served by freight traffic. In 2006, the platforms were modernised; this work included the installation of lifts.
Location and infrastructure
![Bahnhofshalle zweibrucken](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Bahnhofshalle_zweibrucken.jpg)
The station is located west of the city of Zweibrücken at the southwest corner of Poststraße. The
A 8 autobahn runs parallel and south of the station area. The station building has lockers, vending machines and toilets; there is also a bistro and a bar. The station forecourt has car parking and bike racks.
Rail services
Zweibrücken station is served each hour by
Regionalbahn line 68 operated by
DB Regio
DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany. DB Regio AG, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and there part of the DB Regio bus ...
Südwest.
There are also bus services from the station to
Zweibrücken Airport
Zweibrücken Airport , or ''Flughafen Zweibrücken'' in German, is a regional airport and former minor international airport in Zweibrücken, Germany. It was the smaller of the two passenger airports in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, the ot ...
and to
Homburg. The latter serves as a replacement for the Blies Valley Railway closed in 1991.
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Railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1875
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