Regensburg Hauptbahnhof

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Regensburg Hauptbahnhof
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
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Entrance of the station
LocationRegensburg, Bavaria
Germany
Coordinates49°0′44″N 12°5′58″E / 49.01222°N 12.09944°E / 49.01222; 12.09944Coordinates: 49°0′44″N 12°5′58″E / 49.01222°N 12.09944°E / 49.01222; 12.09944
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms8
Construction
Architectural styleNeo-Renaissance
Other information
Station code5169
DS100 codeNRH
Category2[1]
Fare zone: 1[2]
Website
History
Opened1892
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio Bayern   Following station
toward Munich Airport		RE 22
ÜFEX
via Freising		Terminus
toward Nürnberg Hbf		RE 40
via Schwandorf		Terminus
toward Munchen Hbf		RE 50
Ringzug Ost
via Landshut - Regensburg
toward Nürnberg Hbf
Preceding station   Die Länderbahn   Following station
toward Munchen Hbf		RE 2
via Regensburg		toward Hof Hbf
toward Munchen Hbf		RE 25
via Regensburg		toward Praha hlavní nádraží
toward Marktredwitz		RB 23
oberpfalzbahn
via Weiden in der Oberpfalz		Terminus
Location
Regensburg is located in Bavaria
Regensburg
Regensburg
Location in Bavaria

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the city of Regensburg in southern Germany.

Location[]

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof is located on the southern edge of the old city (Altstadt) in the immediate vicinity of Schloss St. Emmeram. In front of the station building are a taxi rank and the regional bus station. A short distance away is the central public transport hub known as Bustreff Albertstraße. The station has numerous shops; since its renovation in 2004 the overbridge also enables access to the Regensburg Arcade shopping centre south of the station tracks. At the site there are 177 car parking bays and stands for 300 bicycles.

History[]

Regensburg was connected to the railway network relatively late; although the first line in Bavaria opened in 1835, it took until 1859 for the Bavarian Eastern Railway (Königlich privilegirte Aktiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen) to link this east Bavarian metropolis with Nuremberg and Munich, the first line to be built going via Amberg. In 1860 Regensburg was connected to Passau; in 1873 a direct line to Nuremberg was opened; and this was followed by a connection to Ingolstadt in 1874.

The first station building was built between 1859 and 1864 at the southern end of Maximilianstraße to plans by architect Heinrich von Hügel, its great length, twin towers and five-arched portal reflecting the influence of the Italian renaissance. The building was torn down in 1888 and replaced by a new building in the contemporary style of the Gründerzeit. This second station building was destroyed in World War II; its successor was finished in 1955 and renovated in 2004.

View over the platforms and tracks

After just under five years of construction, a new signal box went into service at the Hauptbahnhof in spring 1988. At a cost of 24 million DM it replaced eight old signal boxes that had been repaired at the end of the Second World War. Plans for the replacement began in 1981. 180 sets of points and 220 signals in the marshalling yard and main station are controlled by the new box; the 9-metre-long control panel was designed for an expansion of the area to be controlled. For the first time in the history of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, time signals were no longer controlled by cable but by long wave transmissions from the Mainflingen transmitter.[3]

The marshalling yard, which is west of the main passenger station and adjacent to it, has been closed and is to be demolished.

Operational usage[]

Regensburg is situated at the crossing of the main line railway lines Munich-Hof and Nuremberg-Passau; smaller branch lines connect Regensburg to Ulm and Prague.

Regensburg today sees about 200 trains per day, most of them operated by Deutsche Bahn AG, though some regional services are operated by Vogtlandbahn. The following is a summary:

Train type Route Frequency
Intercity-Express
(Linie 91)		 Wien − Passau − Regensburg – Nuremberg – Würzburg − Frankfurt am Main − Köln – Düsseldorf – Oberhausen − Essen (− Dortmund) Two-hourly
Intercity-Express
(Linie 31)		 Passau − Regensburg – Nuremberg – Würzburg − Frankfurt − Köln – Düsseldorf − Oberhausen − Essen − Dortmund − Hanover − Hamburg − Kiel Once per day
Intercity
(Linie 26)		 Passau − Regensburg – Nuremberg – Frankfurt – Dortmund − Hamburg Once per day
RE 2/RE 25
(Arriva-Länderbahn-Express)		 Munich – Regensburg – Schwandorf – Hof / Furth im Wald – Prague Two-hourly
RE 50 Munich – Regensburg – Nuremberg Two-hourly
RE 40 Regensburg – Schwandorf – Amberg – Nuremberg Two-hourly
RE 23 Regensburg – Schwandorf − Marktredwitz Every 4 hours
RB 23 Regensburg − Schwandorf − Weiden (Oberpf) − Marktredwitz Two-hourly
RB 51 Neumarkt (Oberpf) − Regensburg − Plattling Hourly
RB 15
Danube Valley Railway		 Regensburg − Ingolstadt − Donauwörth − Günzburg − Ulm Hourly services
Sat, Sun and public hols: two-hourly

The platform announcements which inform travellers of the arrival and departure of trains at Regensburg Hauptbahnhof and also welcome alighting passengers were digitalised in July 2008.

References[]

  1. ^ "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. ^ "RVV-Tarifzonenplan/Streckenplan Region (Hauptnetz)". . 1 September 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  3. ^ Meldung Neues Zentralstellwerk für Regensburg. In: Die Bundesbahn 1988, No. 5, p. 479 (in German)

Further reading[]

  • Regensburger Straßenbahn-, Walhallabahn- und Eisenbahnfreunde e.V. (2010). Eisenbahn in Regensburg: 150 Jahre Schienenverkehr [Railways in Regensburg: 150 Years of Rail Traffic]. Regensburg: Pustet. ISBN 978-3791722740.

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