Pirmasens Nord station
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Location | Thaleischweiler-Fröschen, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany | |||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 49°15′30″N 7°36′16″E / 49.25833°N 7.60444°E | |||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | DB Netz | |||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | DB Station&Service | |||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 5 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | 4942 DS100 code SPSN[2] | | ||||||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8000876 | |||||||||||||||||||
Category | 4[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | VRN: 751[3] | |||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 25 November 1875 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Pirmasens Nord (north) station is a station opened in 1875 seven kilometres north of Pirmasens in the municipality of Thaleischweiler-Fröschen in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The station is located next to the hamlet of Biebermühle, which it was named after until 1936. It is the main station within the district of Südwestpfalz.
History
During the planning of the
Opening and first few decades
The station was established on 25 November 1875 with the commissioning of the
After operations of the station had been taken over by France as a result of the First World War, it was taken over in 1922 by Deutsche Reichsbahn. It belonged at first to the railway division of Ludwigshafen and in 1935 was transferred to the Saarbrücken railway division.
During the
Since the end of the Second World War
On 1 April 1947, the station came under the administration of the railway division of Mainz, since the Saar had been removed from Germany. From 1 May 1972 until the founding of Deutsche Bahn in 1994, the station was administered by the Deutsche Bundesbahn railway division in Saarbrücken.
The station was served not only by local trains but also by services on the
In the 1970s and 1980s, the Saarbrücken–
Today the station serves as a junction between the railway lines from Saarbrücken, Landau and
Until 2002, Regional-Express service RE 4, running from Pirmasens Central Station via Kaiserslautern to
Infrastructure
The current station building was built in 1834 and has a cubic shape. It is a stucco building. The locomotive and goods shed still exist, but neither is used for railway operations. The modernisation of the platforms is scheduled in the near future.
The station building possessed a restaurant at times, a ticket hall and toilets before it was taken out of service for rail operations. Today, its entrances and exits are covered with sheets of plywood.
Rail services
Pirmasens Nord station is served by the following lines:
Line | Route | Frequency |
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RB 55 | Landau
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Hourly |
RB 64 | Pirmasens – Pirmasens Nord – Waldfischbach – Kaiserslautern
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Hourly |
RB 68 | Pirmasens – Pirmasens Nord – Zweibrücken – St. Ingbert – Saarbrücken | Hourly |
Notes
- ^ a b "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.
- ^ "Wabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
External links
- Ludwig Mayer. "Die Bahnhofsanlage Pirmasens Nord" (in German). Heimatlexikon Thaleischweiler-Fröschen. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
- J. Pepke. "Bahnhof Prmasens Nord" (in German). kbaystb.de. Retrieved 7 June 2012.