Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof

Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof
Through station
General information
Location	Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany
Coordinates	49°21′0″N 8°8′26″E
Line(s)	Neustadt (Weinstr)–Monsheim Palatine Ludwig Railway (KBS 670) Neustadt (Weinstr)–Wissembourg Neustadt (Weinstr)–Lambrecht–Elmstein
Platforms	6
Other information
Station code	4454
DS100 code	RN
Category	2
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	11 June 1847

Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof is the railway station and 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.

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 (Homburg–Osterburken) and S2 (Kaiserslautern–Mosbach) have stopped at Neustadt station.

Long distance services

Line	Route	Frequency
ICE 75	Frankfurt Hbf - Mannheim - Neustadt - Kaiserslautern - Homburg - Saarbrücken	Some services
ICE 50	Dresden – Leipzig – Erfurt – 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 – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Munich – Rosenheim – Salzburg – Graz	Some services

S-Bahn and regional services

Regional-Express operated by class 612 diesel multiple unit in Neustädt station on its way to Karlsruhe

Line	Route	Line name	KBS	Operator
Template:S-Bahn-RheinNeckar	Homburg – Kaiserslautern – Neustadt – Mannheim – Mosbach – Osterburken	Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn	665.1-2	DB Regio RheinNeckar
Template:S-Bahn-RheinNeckar	Kaiserslautern – Neustadt – Mannheim – Mosbach	Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn	665.1-2	DB Regio RheinNeckar
RE 6	Neustadt – Landau (Pfalz) – Winden – Karlsruhe	Palatine Maximilian Railway	676	DB Regio RheinNeckar
RE 7	Mannheim – Neustadt – Kaiserslautern – Saarbrücken	Palatine Ludwig Railway	670	DB Regio Südwest
RB 49	Ludwigshafen BASF – Ludwigshafen – Neustadt – Kaiserslautern / 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