Neustadt Central Station

Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof
Operations
Category 2 [1]
Type Crossing station
Platforms in use 6
DS100 code RN
Station code 4454
Construction and location
Opened 11 June 1847
Location Neustadt an der Weinstraße
State Rhineland-Palatinate
Country Germany
Home page www.bahnhof.de
Route information
List of railway stations in Rhineland-Palatinate

Neustadt Central Station (German: Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof) is the centre of public transport in the city of Neustadt in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

In addition to the Hauptbahnhof, there is another station in the city, Neustadt-Böbig, which is a stop on the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. Neustadt Local station (Neustadt Lokalbahnhof) was the terminus of the metre gauge Neustadt–Speyer Local Railway (Lokalbahn Neustadt–Speyer), but was closed with the line in 1956.

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History

The Rheinschanze–Neustadt section of the Palatine Ludwig Railway was opened on 11 June 1847. Some years later, when the Palatine Maximilian Railway to Wissembourg and the Palatine Northern Railway to Monsheim were opened, the trackwork had to be increased considerably, whereupon the station building had to be replaced. In 1909, the Cuckoo Railway opened from Lambrecht to Elmstein, to the west of Neustadt; its service mostly began or ended in Neustadt.

From 1911, an overland tramway (interurban), the so-called Palatine Overland Railway (Pfälzer Oberlandbahn) also operated from the station forecourt, to Landau until it was closed in stages from 1953 to 1955. Around the same time the Palatine Ludwig Railway was electrified through the station.

Operations

In 2003, the station was modernised with the introduction of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn and the platforms were raised. Since then, lines S1 (HomburgOsterburken) and S2 (KaiserslauternMosbach) have stopped at Neustadt station.

Long distance services

Line Route Frequency
ICE 75 Frankfurt Hbf - Mannheim - Neustadt - Kaiserslautern - Homburg - Saarbrücken Some services
ICE 50 DresdenLeipzigErfurt – Frankfurt (Main) – Darmstadt – Mannheim - Neustadt – Kaiserslautern – Saarbrücken Some services
IC 50 Frankfurt – Darmstadt – Mannheim – Neustadt – Kaiserslautern – Homburg (Saar) – Saarbrücken Some services
IC/EC 62 Saarbrücken – Homburg (Saar) – Neustadt – Mannheim – HeidelbergStuttgartUlmMunichRosenheimSalzburgGraz Some services

S-Bahn and regional services

Line Route Line name KBS Operator
S 1 HomburgKaiserslauternNeustadtMannheimMosbachOsterburken Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn 665.1-2 DB Regio RheinNeckar
S 2 KaiserslauternNeustadt – Mannheim – Mosbach Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn 665.1-2 DB Regio RheinNeckar
RE 6 NeustadtLandau (Pfalz)WindenKarlsruhe Palatine Maximilian Railway 676 DB Regio RheinNeckar
RE 7 MannheimNeustadt – Kaiserslautern – Saarbrücken Palatine Ludwig Railway 670 DB Regio Südwest
RB 49 Ludwigshafen BASF – Ludwigshafen – NeustadtKaiserslautern / Germersheim – Wörth (Rhein) BASF works services 670
677
DB Regio RheinNeckar
RB 51 Neustadt – Landau (Pfalz) – Winden – Karlsruhe Palatine Maximilian Railway 676 DB Regio RheinNeckar
RB 53 Neustadt – Landau (Pfalz) – Winden – Wissembourg Palatine Ludwig Railway 679 DB Regio RheinNeckar

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