Bad Dürkheim station

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Bad Dürkheim
Terminal station
Bahnhof Bad Dürkheim ohne Straßenbahn.jpg
LocationBad Dürkheim, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates49°27′39″N 8°10′14″E / 49.46083°N 8.17056°E / 49.46083; 8.17056Coordinates: 49°27′39″N 8°10′14″E / 49.46083°N 8.17056°E / 49.46083; 8.17056
Line(s)
Platforms3
Other information
Station code266
DS100 codeRBDH[1]
Category5 [2]
Fare zoneVRN: 92[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened15 November 1870

Bad Dürkheim station is a terminal station in Bad Dürkheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is on the Palatinate Northern Railway between Neustadt an der Weinstraße and Monsheim. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[2]

Entrance building[]

The entrance building is a heritage-listed building.

In front of the entrance building is the terminus of the . Bad Dürkheim also includes the stations of Bad Dürkheim-Trift and Bad Dürkheim Ost.

History[]

The station was opened on 6 May 1865 as part of the Neustadt–Bad Durkheim line.[4] The station was not relocated with the closing of the Grünstadt–Bad Durkheim gap on 20 July 1873,[4] so the station remains as a terminal station, even though it is in the middle on the line.

Tram to Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim in the station forecourt

In 1913, the Bad Durkheim–Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim railway was opened by Rhein-Haardt Bahn GmbH, which begins on the station forecourt. Between Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim and Bad Durkheim, the line, which was authorised as a railway, runs in Bad Dürkheim as a tram on grooved rails.

Operations[]

Bad Durkheim station has three platform tracks, which are used only by regional trains. Regional services connect the station with Neustadt an der Weinstraße at 30-minute intervals. An excursion train runs under the name of the Elsass-Express (Alsace-Express) between Mainz via Bad Durkheim to Wissembourg on weekends and public holidays during the summer. The terminal loop of the Bad Durkheim–Ludwigshafen-Oggersheim railway is located outside the station. This route is served by line 4 of the Mannheim/Ludwigshafen tramways.

Line Route Frequency
RE
Elsass-Express 		Mainz – Bad Dürkheim – Neustadt (Weinstraße) – Landau (Pfalz) – Wissembourg 0Individual services of the weekend
RB 45 Neustadt (Weinstr) Hbf – Bad Dürkheim – Freinsheim ( – Grünstadt – Monsheim) 0Every half hour
4 Heddesheim – Mannheim – Ludwigshafen – Maxdorf – Ellerstadt – Bad Dürkheim 0Every 30 min (hourly on Sat/Sun and public holidays)
Preceding station   DBAG   Following station
toward Neustadt		RB 45
Pfälzische Nordbahn		toward Grünstadt

Notes[]

  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Wabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  4. ^ a b Holzborn, Klaus D. (1993). Eisenbahn-Reviere Pfalz (Palatinate railway district) (in German). Berlin: transpress. p. 34. ISBN 3-344-70790-6.
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