Bad Kreuznach station

Bad Kreuznach station is the largest station in the town of Bad Kreuznach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1] It is regularly served by Regional-Express and Regionalbahn services on the Nahe Valley Railway (Nahetalbahn). The station is located south-east of the town centre.

Bad Kreuznach station
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationEuropaplatz 25, Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates49°50′34″N 7°51′58″E
Line(s)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code296[1]
DS100 codeSBKN[2]
IBNR8000021
Category3[1]
Fare zone
  • RNN: 400[3]
  • Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): 6901 (RNN transitional tariff)[4]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1905
Passengers
5000
Services
Preceding station Vlexx Following station
Bad Münster am Stein
towards Saarbrücken Hbf
 RE 3 Ingelheim
towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Bad Münster am Stein
towards Kaiserslautern Hbf
 RE 15 Gensingen-Horrweiler
towards Bodenheim
Bingen Hbf
towards Koblenz Hbf
 RE 17 Bad Münster am Stein
towards Kaiserslautern Hbf
Gensingen-Horrweiler
towards Neubrücke (Nahe)
 RB 33 Bad Münster am Stein
towards Wiesbaden Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station
Bad Münster am Stein
towards Kaiserslautern Hbf
 RB 65 Bretzenheim (Nahe)
towards Bingen Hbf

History
Former town station and later freight yard

The first station in Bad Kreuznach was opened in 1858 with the Nahe Valley Railway and was later used as a freight yard, which is now closed.[5] Between 1896 and 1936, the Kreuznach Light Railways (Kreuznacher Kleinbahnen), a network of 750 mm gauge lines, also terminated at the station. On 1 June 1864 a second station opened in southern Bad Kreuznach called Kreuznach Bad to improve access to the southern part of the city. With the opening of the railway line to Gau-Algesheim in 1902, the present station was built at the junction of two lines between the two stations. The station went into operation in 1905 and the entrance building was built between 1905 and 1908. In due course the other two stations were closed.[6]

Infrastructure

The station is a Keilbahnhof ("wedge-shaped station") with 5 platform tracks. Tracks 1 and 2 are used by trains towards Kaiserslautern and Bingen and tracks 3–5 are used by trains to Mainz / Frankfurt and Saarbrücken. Bad Kreuznach station has an entrance building with a bakery, a newsagent, and a Deutsche Bahn ticket office. The platforms are equipped with seating and food vending machines. From the summer of 2011 to September 2014, the station was thoroughly renovated after a dispute between the town council and Deutsche Bahn. The platforms was raised, barrier-free access for the disabled and a new platform canopy was built.[7] The station was also given additional access on the south side to Bosenheimer Straße.

Passenger services
Fork of the tracks

Bad Kreuznach station is served by the following regional rail services:

Line Route Frequency
RE 3 Rhein-Nahe-Express
Saarbrücken – Neunkirchen – Ottweiler – Türkismühle – Idar-Oberstein – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz (– Frankfurt)		 Hourly to Mainz, every 2 hours to Frankfurt
RE 17 Kaiserslautern – Winnweiler – Rockenhausen – Bad Kreuznach – Bingen – Koblenz Every 2 hours
RE 15 Kaiserslautern – Rockenhausen – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz – Bodenheim Mon to Fri: 1 train pair in the morning to Mainz,

1 train pair in the evening to Kaiserslautern

RB 33 Nahetalbahn
Idar-Oberstein – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz		 Hourly
RB 65 Alsenztalbahn
Kaiserslautern – Winnweiler – Rockenhausen – Bad Kreuznach - Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof		 Hourly

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. "RNN Wabenplan 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  5. "Bad Kreuznach Güterbahnhof" (in German). nahebahn.de. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  6. "Transport history of the town of Bad Kreuznach" (in German). Institut für Geschichtliche Landeskunde an der Universität Mainz e.V. Retrieved 27 May 2012.
  7. "Richtung Zukunft - Modernisierungsarbeiten am Bahnhof Bad Kreuznach" (in German). Zwechverband ZSPNV Rheinland-Pfalz Süd. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
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