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Gemünden (Main) station is a station in the town of
Gemünden am Main Gemünden am Main (; officially ''Gemünden a.Main'') is a town in the Main-Spessart, Main-Spessart district in the ''Regierungsbezirk'' of Lower Franconia (''Unterfranken'') in Bavaria, Germany and lies roughly 40 km down the Main (river), ...
in the
Main-Spessart Main-Spessart is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the northwest of Bavaria, Germany. It is located in Lower Franconia and derives its name from the river Main and the wooded hills of the Spessart. Geography The district is bounded by (from the nort ...
district of the German state of
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on the Flieden–Gemünden railway. It was opened on 1 October 1854. The station is classified by
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(DB) as a category 4 station.


Station category

After the completion of the
Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway The Hanover–Würzburg high-speed railway is a double-track, electrified high-speed railway between Hanover and Würzburg in Germany, in length. The line, built between 1973 and 1991, was the longest contiguous new project constructed by Deuts ...
, the station, which had previously been classified as a "regional node" (category 3), was downgraded to category 5 ("local traffic stop"), of the then six categories because from that time nearly all intercity services were routed over the high speed line. Up to the timetable of 2008 there were still occasional
Intercity InterCity (commonly abbreviated ''IC'' on timetables and tickets) is the train categories in Europe, classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe. Such trains (in contrast to InterRegio, regional train, r ...
services, but since then long-distance services have been abandoned completely. With the reassignment of station categories on 1 January 2011 using objective and quantitative criteria, the station was reclassified as category 4 of the current seven categories.


Operations

The Gemünden train station is now served only by the following regional services (as of the 2016 timetable):


Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gemunden station Railway stations in Bavaria Railway stations in Germany opened in 1854 Main-Spessart Buildings and structures in Lower Franconia 1854 establishments in Bavaria