St. Wendel station

St. Wendel station is the most important station in the town of St. Wendel in the German state of Saarland. The station is located at line-kilometer 106.3 of the Nahe Valley Railway (Nahetalbahn) and was the beginning of the now dismantled St. Wendel–Tholey railway. It was opened during the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from Idar-Oberstein via Türkismühle to Neunkirchen (Saar) on 26 May 1860.

St. Wendel
Through station
Entrance building
Location	Mommstr. 2, St. Wendel, Saarland Germany
Coordinates	49°28′01″N 7°09′56″E
Line(s)	Bingen (Rhein)–Saarbrücken (km 106.3) St. Wendel–Tholey (km 0.0) (closed)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	5948[1]
DS100 code	SSWD[2]
IBNR	8005659
Category	4[1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	26 May 1860
Services
Preceding station   Vlexx   Following station Ottweiler (Saar) toward Saarbrücken Hbf RE 3 Rhein-Nahe-Express Türkismühle toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Oberlinxweiler toward Saarbrücken Hbf RB 73 Bliestal-Bahn Baltersweiler toward Neubrücke (Nahe)

Location

The station is located in the centre of the town of St. Wendel. A large bus station with 16 bus platforms is located in front of the station building from which city buses and regional buses run to the surrounding towns and municipalities.

History

St. Wendel station was opened with the Idar-Oberstein–Türkismühle–St. Wendel–Neunkirchen (Saar) section of the Nahe Valley Railway from Bingen am Rhein to Saarbrücken on 26 May 1860.

A single-track local railway was opened from St. Wendel station to Tholey on 3 August 1915, but its planned continuation to Lebach was not built. Passenger services were stopped on this route in 1984. The section from Oberthal to Tholey was closed first and the remainder of the line, which was served by freight traffic until 1995, was closed in 1996. Meanwhile, the entire line from St. Wendel to Tholey has been converted to an asphalt long-distance cycling route (Wendelinus–Radweg).

The Reichsbahn district office was moved from Türkismühle to St. Wendel in 1937.

The line from Türkismühle to St. Wendel has been electrified since 1969.

Operations

All trains on the Nahe Valley Railway now (2017) stop at St. Wendel. The station is a stop of an hourly Regional-Express line RE 3 from Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof or Mainz Hauptbahnhof to Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof and an hourly Regionalbahn service from Neubrücke via Türkismühle, St. Wendel and Neunkirchen to Saarbrücken (RB 73) and an hourly Regionalbahn service from St. Wendel via Neunkirchen to Saarbrücken (also RB 73).[3][4]

Line	Route	Interval
RE 3	(Frankfurt (Main) Hbf –) Mainz Hbf – Bad Kreuznach – Idar-Oberstein – Türkismühle – St. Wendel – Neunkirchen (Saar) Hbf – Saarbrücken Hbf	60 to Mainz and 120 mins to Frankfurt
RB 73	(Neubrücke (Nahe) – Türkismühle –) St. Wendel – Neunkirchen (Saar) Hbf – Saarbrücken Hbf	30 mins

References

Notes

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. "2017 Timetable: table 680: Mainz – Bad Kreuznach – Idar-Oberstein – Neubrücke – St. Wendel – Saarbrücken" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
4. "2017 Timetable: table 680: Saarbrücken – St. Wendel – Neubrücke – Idar-Oberstein – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

Sources

• Brumm, Rudolf (1987). Die Rhein-Nahe-Bahn. Ein ausführlicher Bericht über Planung, Bau und Betrieb der Rhein-Nahe-Bahn Bingerbrück–Bad Kreuznach–Bad Münster a. St.–Sobernheim–Kirn–Idar-Oberstein–St. Wendel–Neunkirchen [The Rhine-Nahe Railway. A detailed report on the planning, construction and operation of the Rhein-Nahe Railway, Bingerbrück-Bad Kreuznach-Bad Münster a. St.-Sobernheim-Kirn-Idar-Oberstein-St. Wendel–Neunkirchen] (in German). Bad Kreuznach: Edition Nahetal. ISBN 3-926421-00-2.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Sturm, Heinz (2005). Die pfälzischen Eisenbahnen [The Palatine Railways] (in German). Ludwigshafen am Rhein: pro MESSAGE. ISBN 3-934845-26-6.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)