Rastatt station
- Rhine Valley Railway ( 96.5 km; 702 KBS, KBS 710.3 )
- Rheinbahn (km 82.9; 702 KBS, KBS 710.41 )
- Murgtalbahn (km 0.0, KBS 710.41 )
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The Rastatt station is next to the breakpoint Rastatt Beinle one of two railway stations in the city of Rastatt in Baden- Württemberg. It is an important junction station for four lines of the Stadtbahn Karlsruhe, by the Albtal traffic -Gesellschaft ( AVG) are operated. In addition, he is served by regional and individual long-distance trains of the Deutsche Bahn AG (DB). The station is located at kilometer 96.5 of the Rhine Valley line and at kilometer 82.9 of the Rhine Railway and is the starting point of the Murgtalbahn to Freudenstadt.
History
The city of Rastatt received her first rail connection on 1 May 1844, when the Grand Ducal Baden State Railways section Heidelberg -Karlsruhe opened the Rhine Valley line. Since Rastatt at this time was federal fortress and was therefore protected by a rampart and a ditch, the track was initially passed to the east of the city. The first Rastatt station was therefore at the site of today's industrial district.
On 31 May 1869, the first section of the Murgtalbahn was opened; the Rastatt station was thus to node station.
With the repeal of the federal fortress 1890, the station was moved to the west, close to the town center. Here, the current station building was built.
In 1895 came a third rail line, add the Rhine railway, which was extended for strategic reasons from Karlsruhe to Haguenau. On this route, however, in 1966 the cross- border rail traffic was discontinued after France and dismantled the route to winter village.
The station was in the fifties connection to the electric railway system as the Rhine Valley Railway and the Rhine railway were electrified.
Rastatt in 1994 was integrated into the network of the Stadtbahn Karlsruhe. First, the light rail wrong only on the Rhine railway, in the following years, however, took on the Rhine Valley Railway and Murgtalbahn on the urban rail system, so that the station is now served by four rail lines.
Plant
The station has six platform tracks, which are all consistently passable. The track number 1 is on the main platform, the other five tracks on three central platforms. On the tracks 3 and 4 operate regional and long distance trains of Deutsche Bahn towards the Black Forest as well as the traits of the light rail to and from Baden -Baden and Achern (S4, S32). The tracks 5 and 6 are for the traffic on the Murgtalbahn to and from Freudenstadt ( S31, S41 ). The tracks 1 and 2 are no longer regularly used in passenger traffic; there held earlier cross- border trains Rheinbahn.
To the north of the passenger station is the train yard Rastatt, in the west of the central bus station. And offers various city and regional bus lines, operated by the transport company Rastatt under the brand name Rastattbus.