Bad Kreuznach station

Bad Kreuznach station
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
Location Europaplatz 25, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates 49°50′34″N 7°51′58″E / 49.842736°N 7.86614°E / 49.842736; 7.86614Coordinates: 49°50′34″N 7°51′58″E / 49.842736°N 7.86614°E / 49.842736; 7.86614
Line(s)
Platforms 5
Other information
Station code 296
DS100 codeSBKN
IBNR8000021
Category3 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 1905
Traffic
Passengers 5000
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
RE 3
Rhein-Nahe-Express
Ingelheim
RB 33
Nahetalbahn
Gensingen-Horrweiler
toward Mainz Hbf
RB 65
Alsenztalbahn
Bretzenheim (Nahe)

Bad Kreuznach station is the largest station in the town of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1] It is regularly served by Regional-Express and Regionalbahn services on the Nahe Valley Railway (Nahetalbahn). The station is located south-east of the town centre.

History

Former town station and later freight yard

The first station in Bad Kreuznach was opened in 1858 with the Nahe Valley Railway and was later used as a freight yard, which is now closed.[2] Between 1896 and 1936, the Kreuznach Light Railways (Kreuznacher Kleinbahnen), a network of 750 mm gauge lines, also terminated at the station. On 1 June 1864 a second station opened in southern Bad Kreuznach called Kreuznach Bad to improve access to the southern part of the city. With the opening of the railway line to Gau-Algesheim in 1902, the present station was built at the junction of two lines between the two stations. The station went into operation in 1905 and the entrance building was built between 1905 and 1908. In due course the other two stations were closed.[3]

Infrastructure

The station is a V shaped station with 5 platform tracks. Tracks 1 and 2 are used by trains towards Kaiserslautern and Bingen and tracks 3–5 are used by trains to Mainz / Frankfurt and Saarbrücken. Bad Kreuznach station has an entrance building with a bakery, a newsagent, and a Deutsche Bahn ticket office. The platforms are equipped with seating and food vending machines. Since the summer of 2011, the station has been undergoing a major overhaul after a dispute between the town council and Deutsche Bahn. The platforms are being raised, barrier-free access for the disabled is being built and a new platform canopy will be built.

Passenger services

Fork of the tracks

Bad Kreuznach station is served by the following regional rail services:

Line Route Frequency
RE 3 Rhein-Nahe-Express
Saarbrücken – Neunkirchen – Ottweiler – Türkismühle – Idar-Oberstein – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz (– Frankfurt)		 Hourly to Frankfurt, some only to Mainz
RB 33 Nahetalbahn
Idar-Oberstein – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz 		Hourly
RB 65 Alsenztalbahn
Kaiserslautern –Winnweiler – Rockenhausen – Bad Kreuznach - Bingen		 Hourly
RE WX Excursion train (Weinstraßen-Express)
Wiesbaden – Mainz – Bad Kreuznach – Idar-Oberstein – Türkismühle (Sundays from May to October)		 Individual services

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. ↑ "Bad Kreuznach Güterbahnhof" (in German). nahebahn.de. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  3. ↑ "Transport history of the town of Bad Kreuznach" (in German). Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde an der Universität Mainz e.V. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
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