Regensburg Hauptbahnhof

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
Entrance of the station
General information
LocationRegensburg, Bavaria
Germany
Coordinates49°0′44″N 12°5′58″E / 49.01222°N 12.09944°E / 49.01222; 12.09944
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms8
Construction
Architectural styleNeo-Renaissance
Other information
Station code5169
DS100 codeNRH
Category2[1]
Fare zoneRVV: 1[2]
Website
History
Opened1892; 132 years ago (1892)
Electrified15 May 1927; 97 years ago (1927-05-15)
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station
Nürnberg Hbf
towards Rostock Hbf
IC 17 Straubing
towards Wien Hbf
Preceding station ÖBB Following station
Nürnberg Hbf Nightjet Passau Hbf
towards Wien Hbf
Preceding station DB Regio Bayern Following station
Obertraubling RE 22 Terminus
Regenstauf RE 40
Eggmühl
towards München Hbf
RE 50 Beratzhausen
Preceding station Following station
Neufahrn (Niederbay)
towards München Hbf
RE 2 Schwandorf
towards Hof Hbf
RE 25 Schwandorf
towards Praha hl.n.
Preceding station Oberpfalzbahn Following station
Terminus RB 23 Regenstauf
Map
Location
Regensburg is located in Bavaria
Regensburg
Regensburg
Location in Bavaria
Regensburg is located in Germany
Regensburg
Regensburg
Location in Germany
Regensburg is located in Europe
Regensburg
Regensburg
Location in Europe

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the city of Regensburg in southern Germany.

Location

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Regensburg Hauptbahnhof is located on the southern edge of the old city (Altstadt) in the immediate vicinity of Schloss St. Emmeram. In front of the station building are a taxi rank and the regional bus station. A short distance away is the central public transport hub known as Bustreff Albertstraße. The station has numerous shops; since its renovation in 2004 the overbridge also enables access to the Regensburg Arcade shopping centre south of the station tracks. At the site there are 177 car parking bays and stands for 300 bicycles.

History

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Regensburg was connected to the railway network relatively late; although the first line in Bavaria opened in 1835, it took until 1859 for the Bavarian Eastern Railway (Königlich privilegirte Aktiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen) to link this east Bavarian metropolis with Nuremberg and Munich, the first line to be built going via Amberg. In 1860 Regensburg was connected to Passau; in 1873 a direct line to Nuremberg was opened; and this was followed by a connection to Ingolstadt in 1874.

The first station building was built between 1859 and 1864 at the southern end of Maximilianstraße to plans by architect Heinrich von Hügel, its great length, twin towers and five-arched portal reflecting the influence of the Italian renaissance. The building was torn down in 1888 and replaced by a new building in the contemporary style of the Gründerzeit. This second station building was destroyed in World War II; its successor was finished in 1955 and renovated in 2004.

View over the platforms and tracks

After just under five years of construction, a new signal box went into service at the Hauptbahnhof in spring 1988. At a cost of 24 million DM it replaced eight old signal boxes that had been repaired at the end of the Second World War. Plans for the replacement began in 1981. 180 sets of points and 220 signals in the marshalling yard and main station are controlled by the new box; the 9-metre-long control panel was designed for an expansion of the area to be controlled. For the first time in the history of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, time signals were no longer controlled by cable but by long wave transmissions from the Mainflingen transmitter.[3]

The marshalling yard, which is west of the main passenger station and adjacent to it, has been closed and is to be demolished.

Operational usage

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Regensburg is situated at the crossing of the main line railway lines Munich-Hof and Nuremberg-Passau; smaller branch lines connect Regensburg to Ulm and Prague.

Regensburg today sees about 200 trains per day, most of them operated by Deutsche Bahn AG, though some regional services are operated by Vogtlandbahn. The following is a summary as of December 2020:

Train type Route Frequency (mins)
ICE 91 ViennaRegensburgNurembergWürzburgHamburg-Altona / Rostock 120
IC 17 Vienna – Passau – Regensburg – Nuremberg – FürthErlangenBambergLichtenfelsLeipzigBerlinRostockWarnemünde Once a day
RE 2 MunichRegensburgSchwandorfHof 120
RE 50 Munich – Regensburg – Nuremberg 120
RE 18 UlmDonauwörthGünzburgIngolstadtRegensburg Sat, Sun and public hols: 120
RE 22 RegensburgMunich Airport 60
RE 23 Regensburg – Schwandorf – Marktredwitz Some trains
RE 25 Munich – FreisingLandshut – Regensburg – Schwandorf – Furth im WaldPrague 120
RE 40 Regensburg – Schwandorf – Amberg – Nuremberg 120
RE 50 Munich – Freising – Landshut – Regensburg – Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz – Nuremberg 120
RB 15 Regensburg − Ingolstadt − Donauwörth − Günzburg − Ulm 60
Sat, Sun and public hols: 120
RB 17 (Ingolstadt Nord –) Ingolstadt Hbf – Regensburg (– Straubing – Plattling) Mon–Fri: 60 or 120
RB 23 Regensburg – Schwandorf – Weiden – Marktredwitz 60
RB 51 Neumarkt − Regensburg − Plattling 60

The platform announcements which inform travellers of the arrival and departure of trains at Regensburg Hauptbahnhof and also welcome alighting passengers were digitalised in July 2008.

References

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  1. ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ "RVV-Tarifzonenplan/Streckenplan Region (Hauptnetz)". Regensburger Verkehrsverbund. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
  3. ^ Meldung Neues Zentralstellwerk für Regensburg. In: Die Bundesbahn 1988, No. 5, p. 479 (in German)

Further reading

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  • Regensburger Straßenbahn-, Walhallabahn- und Eisenbahnfreunde e.V. (2010). Eisenbahn in Regensburg: 150 Jahre Schienenverkehr [Railways in Regensburg: 150 Years of Rail Traffic]. Regensburg: Pustet. ISBN 978-3791722740.
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