Bad Kreuznach station

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Bad Kreuznach station
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
Bahnhof Kreuznach Front.jpg
LocationEuropaplatz 25, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates49°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)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code296[1]
DS100 codeSBKN[2]
IBNR8000021
Category3[1]
Fare zone
  • : 400[3]
  • RMV: 6901 (RNN transitional tariff)[4]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1905
Passengers
5000
Services
Preceding station   Vlexx   Following station
toward Saarbrücken HbfRE 3
Rhein-Nahe-Express
toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
toward Kaiserslautern HbfRE 17
toward Koblenz Hbf
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
toward Idar-ObersteinRB 33
Nahetalbahn
toward Mainz Hbf
toward Kaiserslautern HbfRB 65
Alsenztalbahn
toward Bingen (Rhein) Hbf

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.[5] 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.[6]

Infrastructure[]

The station is a Keilbahnhof ("wedge-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 Mainz, every 2 hours to Frankfurt
RE 17 Kaiserslautern – Winnweiler – Rockenhausen – Bad Kreuznach – Bingen – Koblenz Every 2 hours
RB 33 Nahetalbahn
Idar-Oberstein – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz 		Hourly
RB 65 Alsenztalbahn
Kaiserslautern – Winnweiler – Rockenhausen – Bad Kreuznach - Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof 		Hourly

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. ^ "RNN Wabenplan 2021" (PDF). . 1 January 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  5. ^ "Bad Kreuznach Güterbahnhof" (in German). nahebahn.de. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  6. ^ "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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