Singen (Hohentwiel) station

Singen (Hohentwiel) station is an important regional railway junction and interchange station in the town of Singen in the south of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Three railways now meet there, but in the past five railways connected to it. The station is served by InterCity trains on the Stuttgart–Zurich route and it is the end of line S22 of the Zurich S-Bahn.

Singen (Hohentwiel)
Crossing station
Station and forecourt
LocationBahnhofstr. 2, Singen, Baden-Württemberg
Germany
Coordinates47°45′32″N 8°50′28″E
Elevation428 m (1,404 ft)
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms8
Other information
Station code5865[1]
DS100 codeRSI[2]
IBNR8000073
Category2[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1863
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station
Schaffhausen
towards Zürich HB
IC/EC 87
towards Stuttgart
TerminusIC/EC 87
towards Stuttgart
Location
Singen
Location in Baden-Württemberg
Singen
Location in Germany
Singen
Location in Europe

Name

Deutsche Bahn officially call the station Singen (Hohentwiel). Because of its size and its significance for the district of Konstanz, the station is sometimes referred to as Singen Hauptbahnhof locally. In addition, the abbreviations Singen (Hohentw), Singen (Htw) and just Singen are used.

Railway lines

Singen is the starting point of the Gäu Railway (Gäubahn) to Stuttgart. On this line, the city is a stop for InterCity services between Stuttgart, Singen, Schaffhausen and Zurich. In addition, trains on the Black Forest Railway (Badische Schwarzwaldbahn), connecting Singen Offenburg and Konstanz stop in Singen. The Upper Rhine Railway (Hochrheinbahn) provides connections to Basel.

History

Singen owes its development from a farming village into industrial town primarily to its role as a railway junction. The railway reached the village for the first time in 1863, when the Upper Rhine Railway was completed from Basel to Konstanz (Constance). Ten years later, the Black Forest Railway was completed from Offenburg to Konstanz, connecting with the Upper Rhine Railway in Singen. The Etzwilen–Singen railway to Switzerland completed the main lines connecting with Singen.

Large Swiss companies established their German branch factories in Singen, not least because of its good rail connection. The factory workers were now brought to work in Singen in great numbers by train. A local commuter railway, the Randen Railway (Randenbahn), was built in 1912, but it was closed in 1966.

The railway used to be one of the largest employers in Singen. The first station building was soon replaced by a more solid building, which still stands with small changes. The goods yard, which formerly stood on the other side of the tracks with sidings connecting directly from the factories, soon became too small. Therefore, a new freight yard was built in 1927.

The section of the Upper Rhine Railway between Schaffhausen and Singen was electrified in 1989.

Intercity-Express service called Singen (Hohentwiel)

ICE trainsets 403 015 and 403 515 (ICE 3, class 403) were given the name of Singen (Hohentwiel) in Singen station on 7 June 2008.

Platforms
Platform Length in m[3] Height in cm[3]
1 487 38
2 334 55
3 334 55
4 476 55
5 476 55
6 110 38
7 152 38
8 125 38

Operations

Singen (Hohentwiel) has been part of the Verkehrsverbund Hegau-Bodensee (Hegau-Bodensee Transport Association, VHB) since its inception in 1996.

Long-distance services
Cisalpino service operated with a class ETR 470 set in Singen station (2004)

Singen station is served by Intercity services at hourly intervals from Stuttgart via Singen and Schaffhausen to Zürich. Evert two hours, it is served by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) services hauled by Taurus locomotives of the Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB). In the other hour, it is served by Deutsche Bahn InterCity 2 services. From this there is a connection in Singen to an IC to Zurich, which also runs with SBB cars. Individual IC 2 services run from Singen to Konstanz instead of Zürich.[4]

Furthermore, on weekends two pairs of Inter City services, operating as the Bodensee (Lake Constance), connect Konstanz with Dortmund, Emden and Norddeich Mole.[4]

A pair of IC services called Schwarzwald ("Black Forest") was operated from Hamburg to Konstanz, replacing one of the hourly cycle of regional services, until its discontinuation in December 2014 and it was then replaced by another regional train between Offenburg and Konstanz.

Line Route Frequency
IC 35 Emden – Münster (Westf) – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Offenburg – Villingen (Schwarzw) - Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Konstanz Two train pairs on the weekend
IC 87 (Frankfurt (Main) – Darmstadt – Heidelberg –) Stuttgart – Horb – Rottweil – Tuttlingen – Singen (Hohentwiel) (Konstanz/)– Schaffhausen – Zürich Hourly

Regional services
Regionalbahn service to Schaffhausen in Singen station

In regional transport, Interregio-Express and Regional-Express services stop in Singen, giving through connections to Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Basel, Konstanz and Ulm via Friedrichshafen.

A Regionalbahn service connects Singen with Schaffhausen. Offset by half hour, line S22 of the Zurich S-Bahn runs between Singen and Schaffhausen. This service runs from Schaffhausen towards Jestetten.

The Seehas (named after a mythical "lake hare"), an S-Bahn-like transport service, connects Singen to, among other places, Engen as well as Radolfzell, Konstanz and other municipalities on Lake Constance.

Line Route Frequency
IRE Basel Bad Bf – Rheinfelden (Baden) – Bad Säckingen – Waldshut – Schaffhausen – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Friedrichshafen Stadt – Ulm Hbf Hourly

Every 2 hours to Ulm and on weekends

IRE Basel Bad Bf – Rheinfelden (Baden) – Bad Säckingen – Waldshut – Schaffhausen – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Konstanz One train pair on weekends
RE Karlsruhe Hbf – Baden-Baden – Achern – Offenburg – Villingen (Schwarzw) – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Konstanz Hourly
RE Stuttgart Hbf – Böblingen – Herrenberg – Eutingen im Gäu – Horb – Rottweil – Tuttlingen – Singen (Hohentwiel) Every 2 hours
RB Schaffhausen – Thayngen – Gottmadingen – Singen (Hohentwiel) Hourly
RB Gottmadingen – Singen (Hohentwiel) One pair of trains during school hours
RB (Singen (Hohentwiel) –) Radolfzell – Überlingen – Friedrichshafen Stadt Individual trains in the early morning hours
R Seehas
Engen – Mühlhausen (b Engen) – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Allensbach – Konstanz		 Every 30 minutes

Former connections

Formerly the Randen Railway ran from Singen to Beuren Büßlingen. Similarly, the Etzwilen–Singen railway (Etzwilerbahn) ran via Rielasingen to Etzwilen in Switzerland .

Freight traffic

Freight is handled at a container terminal in the industrial area, which provides connections to Italy.

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References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Bahnsteiginformationen zum Bahnhof Singen (Hohentwiel)" (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2016.
  4. "Neu: Umsteigefreie IC-Verbindungen Konstanz–Stuttgart von Ende 2017 an" (Press release) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. 13 January 2016. Archived from the original on 26 February 2016. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
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