Bingen (Rhein) Stadt station

Bingen (Rhein) Stadt station (Bingen town station) is, after Bingen Hauptbahnhof, the second largest station in the town of Bingen am Rhein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The station is located on the West Rhine Railway (German: Linke Rheinstrecke) between Koblenz to Mainz. Furthermore, the station is the beginning and end of the Rheinhessen Railway to/from Worms. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[1]

Bingen (Rhein) Stadt
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationEspenschiedstr. 1, Bingen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates49°58′11″N 7°54′19″E / 49.969793°N 7.905308°E / 49.969793; 7.905308
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms4
Construction
ArchitectHans Kleinschmidt
Other information
Station code650[1]
DS100 codeFBGN
IBNR8000976
Category4[1]
Fare zone
  • RNN: 330[2]
  • Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV): 6880 (RNN transitional tariff)[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1859
Services
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station
Ingelheim RE 2
Occasional services
Bingen Hbf
towards Koblenz Hbf
Gensingen-Horrweiler
towards Worms Hbf
RB 35 Terminus
Preceding station Trans Regio Following station
Bingen-Gaulsheim
towards Mainz Hbf
RB 26 Bingen Hbf
Location
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt is located in Rhineland-Palatinate
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt
Location in Rhineland-Palatinate
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt is located in Germany
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt
Location in Germany
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt is located in Europe
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt
Bingen (Rhein) Stadt
Location in Europe

History

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On 17 October 1859, the Hessian Ludwig Railway (Hessische Ludwigsbahn) opened the West Rhine Railway, which ran between Mainz and Bingen, initially only for freight operations. The station now called Bingen (Rhein) Stadt was opened with the line as the border station of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. On the other side of the border in Prussia, the Rhenish Railway Company operated its own station, then called Bingerbrück, but now called Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof (Bingen (Rhine) main station).

Around 1880 the station building was built to a design of the architect Hans Kleinschmidt. A relay interlocking in a gantry signal box spanning two tracks was put into operation in 1937.[4][5] The Bingen Stadt signal box (Bnb) and the three signal boxes of Bingerbrück Ostturm (Bot), Bingerbrück Kreuzbach (Bkb) and Bingerbrück Westturm (Bwt) in the nearby Bingen Hbf were decommissioned on 3 February 1996 and replaced by the central interlocking Bf on the railway bridge at Bingen Hbf.[5] Today, the Bingen Stadt Bnb signal box is protected as a monument.[6]

Location

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Bingen (Rhein) Stadt station is two kilometres east of Bingen Hauptbahnhof, directly opposite the historic Rhine Crane and located in the centre of the town. The “town” station, through its adjoining bus station, has a better connection to the town’s bus network than the Hauptbahnhof.

Platforms

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Bingen (Rhein) Stadt station has four tracks on three platforms. The “home” platform on track 1 is served by MRB 32 services, running to Mainz Hauptbahnhof via Büdesheim (Bingen am Rhein), Gau-Algesheim, Ingelheim am Rhein, Heidesheim am Rhein, Heidenfahrt, Budenheim and Mainz-Mombach station. An underpass connects to the platform on tracks 2 and 3. Track 2 is served by trains towards Bingen Hauptbahnhof and continuing via Bacharach, Oberwesel, St. Goar and Boppard to Koblenz. Platform 3 serves only as an alternative track to allow the overtaking of slower trains. South of platform 1 is a bay platform with an extra platform. This platform is numbered 44. Platform 44 is used by the trains of the Rheinhessen Railway to Worms Hauptbahnhof via Gensingen-Horrweiler, Armsheim, Alzey and Monsheim.

Platform 44 is the only platform that has been made accessible for the disabled. The other three platforms and the underpass are not accessible.

Rail services

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Bingen (Rhein) Stadt station is mainly served by regional services, but the RE 2 service between Frankfurt and Koblenz occasionally stops. It is served by the MittelrheinBahn (RB 26, Koblenz–Boppard–Bingen–Mainz) service operated by trans regio. The station is the beginning of services operated by DB Regio on the Rheinhessen Railway to Worms (RB 35).

Line Line name Route Frequency
RE 2 Südwest-Express Frankfurt HbfFrankfurt Airport RegionalRüsselsheimMainz HbfBingen (Rhein) HbfBingen (Rhein) StadtBoppard HbfKoblenz Hbf Some trains
RB 26 Mittelrheinbahn CologneBonnRemagenAndernach – Koblenz – Boppard – Oberwesel – Bingen – Bingen (Rhein) Stadt – Ingelheim – Mainz Hourly
RB 35 Rheinhessenbahn WormsMonsheimAlzeyArmsheimGau-BickelheimGensingen-HorrweilerBingen (Rhein) Stadt Hourly

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ "RNN Wabenplan 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  3. ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 132. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. ^ "Route der Industriekultur Bingen" (PDF) (in German). Route der Industriekultur Rhein-Main. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  5. ^ a b "Stellwerke B" (in German). Entlang der Gleise. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  6. ^ "Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler Kreis Mainz-Bingen" (PDF) (in German). Koblenz: Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz. 2009. Retrieved 21 May 2012.