Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof

Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof
Through station

Panorama of station building and track
Location Homburg (Saar), Saarland
Germany
Coordinates 49°19′40″N 7°20′13″E / 49.32778°N 7.33694°E / 49.32778; 7.33694Coordinates: 49°19′40″N 7°20′13″E / 49.32778°N 7.33694°E / 49.32778; 7.33694
Line(s)
Platforms 7
Other information
Station code 2892
DS100 codeSHO
Category3 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
Traffic
Passengers 6,500 per day[2]

Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the town of Homburg in the German state of Saarland. It is a through station with four platforms and seven platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a station of category 3. It is located at the junction of the Homburg–Neunkirchen line and the MannheimSaarbrücken line (Palatine Ludwig Railway). It has been the western terminus of line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn since 2006.

Location

The station divides the town into two halves, separating Homburg-Mitte and Homburg-Erbach. It is about 700 metres away from the town centre. In front of the station area is the ZOB bus station, from which both regional and local buses operate.

History

On 1 July 1848, the line between Kaiserslautern and Homburg was opened. Nine years later, on 7 May 1857, the Blies Valley Railway was opened to Zweibrücken. The Homburg–Rohrbach line, now part of the mainline between Mannheim and Saarbrücken, opened to traffic on 1 January 1904. The electrification of the railway station to Homburg was inaugurated on 8 March 1960. 31 years later, on 6 March 1991, the first EuroCity service, the EC 56: Goethe, stopped in Homburg. A few days later, on 22 March 1991, the first InterCity (IC), the IC 26 stopped here. In the summer and autumn of 1991 the tracks were adapted for the operation of Intercity-Express trains, so that in January 1992, the first ICE (Type 1) ran to Homburg. In the following years, the station and the environment was modernised, including by the installation of electronic noticeboards for outgoing train and bus connections, lifts on all tracks and electronic noticeboards on platforms. Covered bicycle parking was also provided. Various platforms have been upgraded, including platform 1 as the normal platform for Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn services. In 2008, the modernisation of platforms 7 and 8 was completed.

Services

Homburg station hall

Long distance

Several services each day, classified as InterCity (IC), EuroCity (EC) or Intercity-Express (ICE) services, connect Homburg directly with Frankfurt am Main, Kassel, Dresden, Stuttgart, Munich, Salzburg and Graz. The ICE services on the Frankfurt–Paris route have not stopped here since December 2007.

Line Route Frequency
ICE 50 Saarbrücken Homburg (Saar) Kaiserslautern Mannheim Frankfurt (Main) Erfurt Leipzig Dresden One pair a day
IC/EC 62 Saarbrücken Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern – Mannheim Stuttgart Ulm Augsburg München Salzburg Occasional services
IC 50 Saarbrücken Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern – Mannheim Darmstadt – Frankfurt (Main) Occasional services

Rapid transit and regional transportation

Line Route Frequency
RE 7 Trier Saarlouis – Saarbrücken Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern Ludwigshafen (Rhein) – Mannheim Occasional services
RE 60 Saarbrücken St. Ingbert Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern Hourly
RB 71 Homburg (Saar) – St. Ingbert – Saarbrücken – Saarlouis Merzig Saarburg – Trier Hourly
RB 74 Illingen (Saar) Neunkirchen Homburg (Saar) Half-hourly
RB 76 Saarbrücken Wemmetsweiler – Neunkirchen (Saar) Homburg (Saar) Occasional services
S 1 Homburg (Saar) – Kaiserslautern Neustadt (Weinstraße) – Ludwigshafen (Rhein) – Mannheim Heidelberg Eberbach Mosbach (Baden) – (Osterburken) Hourly

Freight

Besides passenger services, eight tracks are allocated for freight operations. Two of the town’s three industrial areas are connected by sidings. There is also a siding on the line to Bexbach connecting to the site of the former army depot in Homburg.

Facilities

The Deutsche Bahn travel centre is open daily. The station buildings have ticket machines, public telephones, lockers, toilets (including for the disabled), a bistro-cafe, a station bookshop, a restaurant, a photo booth and a shop.

Notes

  1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.

External links

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