Bingen Central Station

Bingen Central Station (German: Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof) is a railway station in the German city Bingen am Rhein on the West Rhine Railway. Contrary to its name, it is not located in the city centre, but in the borough of Bingerbrück. The station that serves central Bingen is called Bingen Stadt.

Bingen HBf is an ICE/IC station.

History

The particularly beautiful section of the line between Koblenz and Bingerbrück, which runs close to the river through a winding section of the Rhine Valley was opened on 15 December 1859. Bingerbrück station was at the time on the border of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Due to this, Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof was the main station of the Prussian Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), located in Bingen. Here it connected with the line of the Hessian Ludwig Railway (Hessische Ludwigsbahn), which had already opened on 17 October 1859, connecting Bingen with Mainz and the Prussian Nahe Valley Railway to Saarbrücken. It is still the goods station nowadays.

During the construction of the main railway station a roman necropolis had been discovered revealing numerous tombstones of Roman military and civil auxilia. The tombstone of Annaius, a member of the cohors IV Delmatarum, shows a detailed aspect of Roman weaapons and clothing dating back to the first half of the 1st century.^[1]

Three of the attractions of The Industrial Heritage Trail Rhine-Main (Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main), which links tourist attractions related to the industrial heritage of the Rhine Main Area are located at Bingen HBf

• the pedestrian tunnel under the classification yard
• the historic roundhouse building used by railroads for servicing locomotives
• the historic railway control centre covering all tracks

Operational Usage

Regional trains

References

1. ^ CIL XIII, 07507