Zwiesel station
- Platt Ling- Bavarian Einstein ( 120.7 km )
- Zwiesel -Grafenau ( 0.0 km )
- Zwiesel - ground corn ( 0.0 km )
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The Zwiesel Train is the most important railway junction in the Bavarian Forest. He is the only station in the Lower Bavarian town of Zwiesel. In addition to the Zwiesel station there in the light Thal district nor the breakpoint light Thal. The Zwiesel station has four platform tracks and heard the train station, Category 5 of DB Station & Service in. Zwiesel is located on the railway platform Ling- Bavarian Eisenstein, also known Bavarian Forest Railway is. In Zwiesel Train the railway lines branch off to Grafenau and ground corn on the Bavarian Forest Railway. The rail lines are served by trains Regentalbahn under the brand name Forest Railway.
History
The railway station of the town of Zwiesel glass makers was put into operation on 15 November 1877, the main railway platform Ling- Bavarian Eisenstein. Since 1 September 1890, the station is also the starting point of the branch line to Grafenau, which stresses the importance of the station continued to rise. Another branch line was followed on with the rail line Zwiesel - ground corn, which was opened on September 3, 1928, also in Zwiesel had its starting point. Based on the four rail routes that lead in all directions, the route network lying around the station is also known as Zwieseler spider.
Infrastructure
Between September 2006 and July 2007, a new island platform has been created. The platform has three platform edges that lie on the running lines 2 and 5, as well as the dead-end track 4. The height of the platform was raised to 55 cm, so that a height equal access to the trains is possible. During the renovation of the island platform for the first time, named after the station platform roofing type " Zwiesel " was used, which has since been installed at several other stops and train stations. Only the platform track 1 on the main platform has a platform height of 22 cm. This was increased in the summer of 2013 for 600,000 Euro to a height of 55 centimeters. The modified platform is 90 m long. Thus, the station is fully equipped with platforms of height 55 cm and thus a level access possible to all trains.
North of the station building is still a Ladestraße available. Freight traffic at the station has been set, however. The interior of the station building was also renovated during the modernization of the platforms. The German railway operates there since the spring of 2008, a DB Service Store. This is next to a cafe and a ticket office.
In the run up to the train station there are several bus stops. The train station is a central transfer hubs is in the city, so the station is serviced by city bus lines, from the buses and the RBO of the Falkenstein buses.
Operation
Until 2000 the station was Zwiesel also served by long distance trains. By 1987, the multiple unit VT drove 601 of the German Federal Railways as an Alpine Lake Express to Zwiesel and further into the Bavarian Forest. The train was mainly the numerous tourists in the Bavarian Forest. After the train was set coaches were still the IC and the IC Arber Bavarian Forest to Zwiesel.
Since 2003, the operation of trains, except for rare special trips, performed only in vertakteten operation with the green - yellow Regio -Shuttle Regentalbahn under the operating name of the forest path, where the trains from the mainline train station platform Ling, the ground corn railway station and the border station Bavarian Eisenstein ( including trains, which are guided to and from the Czech station Špičák ) shortly before the hour (hour clock ), and the train from Grafenau odd hour (2- hour intervals ) meet at the station.
Scheduled freight no longer takes place since 2000. Today, the remaining goods shed from the former large volume of goods generated. There was also a railway siding are Zwiesel Crystal Glass AG.