Bad Vilbel station
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| Location | Bahnhofsplatz 1 Bad Vilbel, Hesse Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°11′18″N 8°44′24″E / 50.18833°N 8.74000°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 358 DS100 code RMF[2] | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000760 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 3[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone |  : 2601[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 10 May 1850 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bad Vilbel station is located at the 183.6 kilometre mark of the
History
Bad Vilbel station was opened with the opening of the
The section of the Nidder Valley Railway between Vilbel Nord (now called Bad Vilbel) station and Heldenbergen-Windecken (now Nidderau) was opened on 1 June 1907. A new entrance building was built and put into operation for the opening of the new line.[5] It is now protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act. Operations on the Nidder Valley Railway on weekends were re-established on 4 May 2008.
The
Platforms
Bad Vilbel station has an extensive system of tracks. Five platform tracks (four through tracks and a bay platform) are available for passenger traffic. Renovation of the platforms to achieve barrier-free accessibility began in 2012. There are also several tracks without platforms for freight traffic.[6]
- Track 5 is a through track and is located on the eastern island platform next to track 7. This is used for Stadt-Express services on the Nidder Valley Railway and individual services to Nidda. When long-distance services are scheduled towards Gießen on the Main-Weser line, S-Bahn trains wait here to be overtaken.
- Track 6 is a bay platform that runs from the north and ends on the island platform between tracks 5 and 7. Individual services on the Nidder Valley Railway start and end here.
- Track 7 is a through track and is the main platform for services on the Main-Weser Railway to Kassel.
- Track 8 is the main platform for services on the Main-Weser Railway to Frankfurt and shares the western island platform with track 9.
- Track 9 is another through track. It is used as an alternative platform track and for services being overtaken.
The ticket office was closed in late 2003.[7]
Rail services
The journey time to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof by S-Bahn is about 20 minutes. There are also Regionalbahn connections to Frankfurt during peak hours and Mittelhessen-Express (RE 41) services stop every two hours. The journey time to Frankfurt station for regional services is about 15 minutes.
Services on S-Bahn line S6 connect Bad Vilbel during the day at approximately 15-minute intervals to inner Frankfurt and Groß Karben. Every second S-Bahn service from Groß Karben continues to Friedberg station.
Since the modernisation of the Nidder Valley Railway, almost all trains on weekdays run to/from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. The remaining trains run as Regionalbahn services, beginning and ending in Bad Vilbel.
In the early evening hours, two trains of the Niddertal-Netz (Nidder Valley Network) run as a combined service of lines RB34 and RB48, starting from Frankfurt, uncoupling in Bad Vilbel. While the front part of the train runs to Glauburg-Stockheim, the rear part continues to Nidda. In the morning peak hour, two trains run separately from Nidda via Friedberg to Frankfurt.
Since 13 December 2009, the Mittelhessen-Express has stopped every two hours in Bad Vilbel. Its trains run from Frankfurt to Giessen with two sections coupled together. The sections are split in Giessen. Then one section runs as RE 41 to Treysa and the other section runs to Dillenburg as RB 40.
Since 11 December 2011, the Main-Sieg-Express (RE 99), designated as an RE-sprinter service, has stopped in Bad Vilbel during the morning peak.
Bus
Bad Vilbel is connected by several bus routes to the surrounding cities of Frankfurt, Offenbach am Main, Bad Homburg (Ober-Erlenbach), Karben and Rosbach vor der Höhe. It is also served by five city bus routes.
Future
For many decades it has been planned to add two separate tracks for the S-Bahn to the Main-Weser Railway between Frankfurt and Bad Vilbel, or as far as Friedberg. This is expected to go into operation in 2023 as part of a 10-point program of the Hessian state government to improve transport in Frankfurt Rhine-Main region. Planning permission for the project has already been granted in the Bad Vilbel area.[8]
Photographs
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Entrance building from the street side -
Entrance building from the rail side -
Former freight shed -
Bad Vilbel signal box -
Track 5
References
- ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
- ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.
- ^ "Track plan of Bad Vilbel station" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Dunkel, stinkig und verdreckt: Bad Vilbels Nordbahnhof erweckt den Eindruck, als sei er schon vor Jahren stillgelegt worden" (PDF). Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 1 March 2005. Archived from the original (PDF; 246 kB) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
- ^ "Streckenausbau Main-Weser – Vier Gleise nach Bad Vilbel". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 25 January 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
