Neubrücke (Nahe) station is a station in the town of Neubrücke (Nahe) in the municipality of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach in the German state of

Rhineland-Palatinate Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) 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 sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...

. It is on the

Nahe Valley Railway The Nahe Valley Railway () is a two-track, partially electrified main line railway in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, which runs for almost 100 kilometres along the Nahe (Rhine), Nahe. It was built by the Rhine-Nahe Railway ...

(''Nahetalbahn'') and was the terminus of the Birkenfeld District Railway (''Birkenfelder Kreisbahn'') to the district seat of

Birkenfeld Birkenfeld () is a town and the district seat of the Birkenfeld (district), Birkenfeld Districts of Germany, district in southwest Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the Birkenfeld (Verbandsgemeinde), like-named ''Verbandsge ...

from 1880 to 1991. It was opened with the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from

Idar-Oberstein Idar-Oberstein () is a town in the Birkenfeld (district), Birkenfeld Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. As a ''Große kreisangehörige Stadt'' (large city belonging to a district), it assumes some of the respons ...

to Neunkirchen (Saar) on 26 May 1860.

Location

Neubrücke station is located in the southeast of Neubrücke. Its address is ''Saarstraße 19''. The entrance building is heritage-listed.

History

Neubrücke (Nahe) station was officially opened during the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from Idar-Oberstein via

Heimbach Heimbach is a town in the district of Düren of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the river Rur, in the Eifel hills, approx. 20 km south of Düren. Heimbach has the smallest population of any town in North Rhin ...

, Neubrücke, Türkismühle and St. Wendel to Neunkirchen (Saar) on 26 May 1860. A branch line was opened on 15 October 1880 from Neubrücke to Birkenfeld, which made a connection from the district seat to the Nahe Valley Railway and thus to the national railway network. This route was built by ''Birkenfelder Lokalbahn GmbH''. After the end of the Second World War, the Birkenfeld Railway lost significance, as trade with the nearby

Saar Protectorate The Saar Protectorate ( ; ), officially Saarland (), was a short-lived French protectorate and a disputed territory separated from Germany. On joining the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG/West Germany) in 1957, it became the smallest "federal ...

, which was occupied by France, was restricted. This situation was only resolved in the 1950s. From the 1960s onwards several bus routes were established, which ran parallel to the line. Financial problems at Degussa AG and ''Birkenfelder Ziegelei'', which were connected to the railway, as well as decreasing passenger numbers finally led to the decommissioning and dismantling of the line in the 1970s and 1980s. It was closed on 30 September 1991. Passenger services ended as early as 1962. The entire infrastructure was then dismantled and a cycle path was established on the former track. The Nahe Valley Railway was electrified between Türkismühle and Neubrücke in the summer of 2014, when it was closed for six weeks. Since then,

Regionalbahn The ''Regionalbahn'' (; lit. Regional train; abbreviated ''RB'') is a train categories in Europe, type of Regional rail, local passenger train (stopping train) in Germany. It is similar to the Regionalzug (R) and Regio (Swiss railway train), R ...

line RB 73, which previously ended in Türkismühle has continued to Neubrücke.

Entrance building

The entrance building of Neubrücke station is protected as a monument under the Rhineland Palatinate Conservation Act. It is a one and two-storey sandstone structure, which was built around 1860.

Operations

Neubrücke 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 a top speed of and an average speed of about as it calls at fewer stations than ''R ...

line RE 3 from

Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

Mainz Mainz (; #Names and etymology, see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in ...

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...

as well as by a

service from Neubrücke to Saarbrücken (RB 73). In the working day peaks, individual Regionalbahn services on line RB 33 to and from

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end or start in Neubrücke. The Saarbrücken–Mainz railway is electrified from Saarbrücken to Neubrücke. Until 2014, Regional-Express services on line RE 3 were operated with class 612 tilting trains, but since the change of the operator in December 2014 to

vlexx Vlexx GmbH (stylized in lowercase in its logo) is a rail transport company based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany; it is a subsidiary of the Regentalbahn, which in turn has been part of the Italian state railway Ferrovie dello Stato (FS ...

, services has been operated with LINT 54 and 81 sets. On the Neubrücke (Nahe)–Saarbrücken section, services on

line RB 73 are operated with electric multiple units of classes 425 and 426 and on the Neubrücke–Idar-Oberstein(–Mainz) section, services on line RB 33 are operated with LINT 54 and 81 sets. Neubrücke (Nahe) station is also a stop for coach services on the

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–

Frankfurt am Main Frankfurt am Main () is the most populous city in the States of Germany, German state of Hesse. Its 773,068 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the List of cities in Germany by population, fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located in the forela ...

route operated by DeLux-Express.

References

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