Idar-Oberstein station

Near Valley Railway ( 67.9 km ) ( KBS 680)

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The station Idar-Oberstein is the largest train station in the town of Idar -Oberstein on the Nahe Valley Railway. He belongs to the category 4 station. It regularly hold regional express trains and regional trains, there used to also carry freight. The station is located in the center of the town of Idar -Oberstein.

History

The Idar -Oberstein station was opened on 15 December 1859 as Oberstein station. At that time only one connection to Bingen am Rhein. In 1860 the connection direction Saarland was produced, which train to Neunkirchen ( Saar) were possible, where connection was to the Palatine Ludwig Railway. Later there was of Idar- Oberstein also links to Glantalbahn, Baumholder and to today's county town of Birkenfeld.

Already in May 1884 the trains four times a day between Bingen Brück and Metz. Already in 1900 wrong -distance trains between Frankfurt and Paris about Idar -Oberstein. There were around 1910 and long-distance trains between Berlin and Paris. During the traffic during the war years was very limited, the train station in Idar-Oberstein in 1926 even hit by a train on the distance Wiesbaden -Calais. In the 1930s, he was approached by several long-distance trains: Those were the D - 132 Frankfurt Nancy, the D 138 Frankfurt- Paris and the D 144 Wiesbaden- Paris. While the long-distance train service to the Second World War fell, they learned in the 1980s, again a renaissance. Between 1985 and 1991 drove another two Fernzugpaare about Idar -Oberstein. In addition to the express train Göttingen- Frankfurt -Saarbrücken was the D- train Frankfurt am Main Idar-Oberstein -Saarbrücken - Paris, who ran his Corail cars to Idar -Oberstein. Since 1991, Idar- Oberstein is without remote transport links.

Today the Near Valley Railway is one of the main axes of rail passenger transport in Rhineland- Palatinate. In addition, the station was formerly the starting point of the tram Idar -Oberstein ( 1900-1956 ) and the trolleybus Idar -Oberstein ( 1956-1969 ).

Construction

The station Idar-Oberstein has a reception building. In the course of restoration work the platforms were renewed and made ​​accessible by lifts. In addition, the platforms were equipped with a reactive control system. In November 2008, the building was completely repainted and decorated with pictures of landmarks of the city.

Railway operation

Presence

In Idar -Oberstein station stop following features of transport:

Future

With the timetable change in December 2014, the diesel power -West GmbH ( DNSW ) receives, a subsidiary of Regentalbahn, the surcharge. From the following connections are available:

Bus operation

On Idar -Oberstein station provides six city bus routes the traffic society Idar-Oberstein and numerous lines of local bus services, the bus and coach transport Rhein-Nahe. On a school run 261 buses at Idar -Oberstein station from (as of 20 May 2011 ).

  • Station in Rhineland -Palatinate
  • Idar -Oberstein
  • Building in the district of Birkenfeld
  • Traffic ( Birkenfeld )
  • Near Valley Railway
German railway station categories Regional-Express Corail (train) Neunkirchen Hauptbahnhof Kirn Bad Kreuznach station
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