Bad Vilbel station
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Location | Bahnhofsplatz 1 Bad Vilbel, Hesse Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 50°11′18″N 8°44′24″E / 50.18833°N 8.74000°ECoordinates: 50°11′18″N 8°44′24″E / 50.18833°N 8.74000°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | 358[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
DS100 code | RMF[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8000760 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Category | 3[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | : 2601[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 10 May 1850 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bad Vilbel Location within Hesse |
Bad Vilbel station is located at the 183.6 kilometre mark of the Main-Weser Railway in the town of Bad Vilbel in the German state of Hesse. The Nidder Valley Railway branches from Bad Vilbel via Nidderau to Glauburg-Stockheim. The station is located in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1]
History[]
Bad Vilbel station was opened with the opening of the Frankfurt–Friedberg section of the Main-Weser Railway station on 10 May 1850.[4] The entire length of the Main-Weser Railway from Kassel to Frankfurt was opened to traffic on 15 May 1852.[4]
The section of the Nidder Valley Railway between Vilbel Nord (now called Bad Vilbel) station and Heldenbergen-Windecken (now Nidderau) was opened on 1 June 1907. A new entrance building was built and put into operation for the opening of the new line.[5] It is now protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act. Operations on the Nidder Valley Railway on weekends were re-established on 4 May 2008.
The Rhine-Main S-Bahn was opened on 28 May 1978. Since then, Bad Vilbel station has been served by S-Bahn line S6, which has operated since 1992 on the Friedberg–Bad Vilbel–Frankfurt Hbf (underground)–Frankfurt South route.
Platforms[]
Bad Vilbel station has an extensive system of tracks. Five platform tracks (four through tracks and a bay platform) are available for passenger traffic. Renovation of the platforms to achieve barrier-free accessibility began in 2012. There are also several tracks without platforms for freight traffic.[6]
- Track 5 is a through track and is located on the eastern island platform next to track 7. This is used for Stadt-Express services on the Nidder Valley Railway and individual services to Nidda. When long-distance services are scheduled towards Gießen on the Main-Weser line, S-Bahn trains wait here to be overtaken.
- Track 6 is a bay platform that runs from the north and ends on the island platform between tracks 5 and 7. Individual services on the Nidder Valley Railway start and end here.
- Track 7 is a through track and is the main platform for services on the Main-Weser Railway to Kassel.
- Track 8 is the main platform for services on the Main-Weser Railway to Frankfurt and shares the western island platform with track 9.
- Track 9 is another through track. It is used as an alternative platform track and for services being overtaken.
The ticket office was closed in late 2003.[7]
Rail services[]
The journey time to Frankfurt Central Station by S-Bahn is about 20 minutes. In addition, there are Regional-Express (RE) and Stadt-Express (SE) connections to Frankfurt during peak hours and Mittelhessen-Express services every two hours. The journey time to Frankfurt station for regional services is about 15 minutes.
Services on S-Bahn line S6 connect Bad Vilbel during the day at 15-minute intervals to inner Frankfurt and Groß Karben. Every second S-Bahn service from Groß Karben continues to Friedberg station.
Since the modernisation of the Nidder Valley Railway, almost all trains on weekdays and about two-thirds on Saturdays run as Stadt-Express services to/from Frankfurt Central Station. The remaining trains run as Regionalbahn (RB) services, beginning and ending in Bad Vilbel.
In the early evening hours, two trains of the Niddertal-Netz (Nidder Valley Network) run as a combined service of lines SE 32 and SE 34, starting from Frankfurt Hbf, uncoupling in Bad Vilbel. While the front part of the train runs to Glauburg-Stockheim, the rear part continues to Nidda. In the morning peak hour, two trains run from Nidda via Friedberg to Frankfurt Hbf.
Since 13 December 2009, the Mittelhessen-Express stops every two hours in Bad Vilbel. Its trains run from Frankfurt Hbf to Giessen with two sections coupled together as a Stadt-Express service. The sections are uncoupled in Giessen. Then one section runs as an RE service to Treysa and the other section runs to Dillenburg.
Since 11 December 2011, a service of the Main-Sieg-Express, designated as an RE-sprinter service, stops in Bad Vilbel during the morning peak.
Bus[]
Bad Vilbel is connected by several bus routes to the surrounding cities of Frankfurt, Offenbach am Main, Bad Homburg (Ober-Erlenbach), Karben and Rosbach vor der Höhe. It is also served by five city bus routes.
Future[]
For many decades it has been planned to add two separate tracks for the S-Bahn to the Main-Weser Railway between Frankfurt and Bad Vilbel, or as far as Friedberg. This is expected to go into operation in 2022 as part of a 10-point program of the Hessian state government to improve transport in Frankfurt Rhine-Main region. Planning permission for the project has already been granted in the Bad Vilbel area.[8]
Photographs[]
Entrance building from the street side
Entrance building from the rail side
Former freight shed
Bad Vilbel signal box
Track 5
References[]
- ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ a b Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen (in German). Vol. 2.1. Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag. p. 143. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
- ^ Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen (in German). Vol. 2.1. Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
- ^ "Track plan of Bad Vilbel station" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Dunkel, stinkig und verdreckt: Bad Vilbels Nordbahnhof erweckt den Eindruck, als sei er schon vor Jahren stillgelegt worden" (PDF). Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 1 March 2005. Archived from the original (PDF; 246 kB) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Streckenausbau Main-Weser – Vier Gleise nach Bad Vilbel". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 25 January 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
External links[]
- Railway stations in Hesse
- Rhine-Main S-Bahn stations
- Buildings and structures in Wetteraukreis
- Railway stations in Germany opened in 1850