Göppingen station
- Stuttgart -Ulm ( KBS 750 )
- Schwäbisch Gmünd - Göppingen (closed)
- Göppingen - Boll ( decommissioned)
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The Göppingen station is a through station on the 1850 through opened Filstalbahn Stuttgart -Ulm ( kilometer 42.1 ). He is out in the establishment Jobs Directory under the name TGO.
Location
The station is located on the southern edge of downtown Göppingen. To the east is the large shunting and freight station, which is still used occasionally. West follows the disused smaller of the two areas in the goods until 2012 there was a loading bay. It is home to the central bus station (ZOB).
Construction of the railway station
The station consists of a reception building. In the reception building contains a restaurant, two kiosks, a bakery, a bookstore and a travel center. The former baggage and Expressguthalle is no longer used today. In the premises located since 2013, operated by the city of bicycle parking garage.
He has seven platform tracks, namely the tracks 1 to 7 Only the tracks 6 and 4 are actively used for passenger transport, from the tracks 1 and 3 only run single regional trains from track 5 is a daily City Night Line train from Paris to Next trip to Munich.
Track 1 served until 1986 the transport of disused Hohenstaufenring train to Schwäbisch Gmünd, Track 7 served some trains the disused Voralbbahn to Boll (setting of the passenger traffic on 27 May 1989, and final closure on 15 December 1997 ). In addition, ends on the eastern side of the platform for the tracks 6 and 7 show another track, which previously had the number 13. On this track drove most of the trains of Voralbbahn.
The sprawling Rangiergleisanlage is now used only by the resident in the vicinity of the railway station company Leonhard Weiss. All other outgoing from the railway industry sidings are decommissioned. Similarly, the first in the 1970s on the other side of the Fils as one of the most modern facilities of its kind newly built container station is shut down since the mid- 90s. The access track on the Ernst- Bosch Bridge now serves the rail line based on this area junkyard.
History
The in 1850 opened throughout Filstalbahn reached already in 1847 Göppingen, so the station on October 11 of the year could go into operation.
On April 6, 1893, the extension of the reception building was approved and this subsequently executed according to the plans.
1914 to 1917 the station was expanded and rebuilt again considering the Hohenstaufen train to Schwäbisch Gmünd and the then projected Voralbbahn to Boll.
During the Second World War was on the station forecourt an air raid trench cover for 80 people.
On May 27, 1964, the current planned by Hellmut Kasel station building was opened after two and a half years of construction. In the late 1960s created a new freight terminal building that was no longer used by the railroad and was canceled in the summer of 2012. In 2003, a new pedestrian bridge was opened, which links the station accessible to all tracks and lying beyond the Fils Jahn road.
Train services
On Göppingen station daily hold between 90 and 100 trains.
Long-distance traffic
Some Intercity and Euro City trains several lines which ply the route between Stuttgart and Ulm, keep on Göppingen station. In addition, once there is daily direct connection with the City Night Line to Paris.
Regional Transport
Göppingen is the intermediate station every hour from Stuttgart to Ulm Regional trains running express trains as well as the inter-regional express line from Stuttgart to Lindau. On the route of Plochingen Geislingen hourly free regional trains also make stop in Göppingen.
Others
At the regularly scheduled meeting of the Märklin model railway, numerous events are also held at the Göppingen station, including display of historic locomotives, arrival of trips from all over Germany, steam train shuttles, cab ride sharing.