Freinsheim station is a station in Freinsheim in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is at the junction of the Palatinate Northern Railway and the Freinsheim–Frankenthal railway. The station is one of the most important railway junctions in the Palatinate. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[2]

Freinsheim
Junction station
General information
LocationFreinsheim, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates49°30′09″N 08°12′17″E / 49.50250°N 8.20472°E / 49.50250; 8.20472
Line(s)
Platforms3
Other information
Station code1907
DS100 codeRFHM[1]
Category4 [2]
Fare zoneVRN: 82[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened20 July 1860
Services
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station
Erpolzheim RB 45 Herxheim am Berg
towards Monsheim
Weisenheim (Sand) RB 46 Herxheim am Berg
towards Eiswoog

History

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The station was opened on 20 July 1860 as part of the Bad DürkheimGrünstadt section on the Palatine Northern Railway.[4] On 15 October 1877, the station was upgraded with the opening of the line to Frankenthal.[5]

Infrastructure

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The station has three platforms tracks and two platforms. One platform is used by trains towards Neustadt or Grünstadt on the Palatinate Northern Railway, while the other platform is used by trains coming from Frankenthal or Grünstadt running on the Freinsheim–Frankenthal line. The station building, which was built as a single block, is no longer used.

The station is located on the western outskirts of Freinsheim. To the south of the station is the junction of the Freinsheim–Frankenthal line with the Palatine Northern Railway. The station has an important function as a node in the Palatinate due to its central location in the Frankenthal-Grünstadt-Bad Dürkheim triangle.

The station building, a three-story stucco building with a sandstone portico and a wooden roof, was built in 1872/73 and is a listed building.[6]

Operations

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Freinsheim station is served exclusively by local services. The two lines are operated mainly by Alstom Coradia LINT electric multiple units. Services run between Neustadt and Freinsheim every half hour on week days. Once an hour these continue to Grünstadt. Trains from Frankenthal end in Ramsen on weekdays; they only continue to Eiswoog or Monsheim on Wednesdays, Sundays and public holidays.

Line Route Frequency
RB 45 FrankenthalFreinsheimGrünstadt Eisenberg (Pfalz) – Ramsen (– Eiswoog) Hourly on each branch
Monsheim
RB 46 Neustadt HbfBad DürkheimFreinsheim Every half hour

Notes

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  1. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Wabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  4. ^ Holzborn, Klaus D. (1993). Eisenbahn-Reviere Pfalz (Palatinate railway district) (in German). Berlin: transpress. p. 34. ISBN 3-344-70790-6.
  5. ^ Fritz Paetz (1985). Datensammlung zur Geschichte der Eisenbahnen an Main, Rhein und Neckar (in German). Bensheim-Auerbach. p. 23.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ Generaldirektion Kulturelles Erbe Rheinland-Pfalz, ed. (2009). "Nachrichtliches Verzeichnis der Kulturdenkmäler Kreis Bad Dürkheim" (PDF; 1.6 MB) (in German). Koblenz. Retrieved 9 May 2013.