Neubrücke (Nahe)
Deutsche Bahn
Through station
View of the station forecourt and the entrance building
General information
LocationSaarstr. 19, Neubrücke (Nahe), Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates49°36′20″N 7°10′12″E / 49.605559°N 7.169979°E / 49.605559; 7.169979
Line(s)
Platforms3
Other information
Station code4364[1]
DS100 codeSNBR[2]
IBNR8004253
Category4[1]
Fare zoneRNN: 474[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened26 May 1860
Services
Preceding station Vlexx Following station
Türkismühle
towards Saarbrücken Hbf
 RE 3 Idar-Oberstein
towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Terminus RB 33 Hoppstädten (Nahe)
towards Wiesbaden Hbf
Nohfelden
towards Saarbrücken Hbf
 RB 73 Terminus

Neubrücke (Nahe) station is a station in the town of Neubrücke (Nahe) in the municipality of Hoppstädten-Weiersbach in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is on the Nahe Valley Railway (Nahetalbahn) and was the terminus of the Birkenfeld District Railway (Birkenfelder Kreisbahn) to the district seat of Birkenfeld from 1880 to 1991. It was opened with the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from Idar-Oberstein to Neunkirchen (Saar) on 26 May 1860.

Location

View from the station parking area over the tracks to the tall warehouse of the cookware manufacturer Fissler

Neubrücke station is located in the southeast of Neubrücke. Its address is Saarstraße 19. The entrance building is heritage-listed.

History

Neubrücke (Nahe) station was officially opened during the extension of the Nahe Valley Railway from Idar-Oberstein via Heimbach, Neubrücke, Türkismühle and St. Wendel to Neunkirchen (Saar) on 26 May 1860.

A branch line was opened on 15 October 1880 from Neubrücke to Birkenfeld, which made a connection from the district seat to the Nahe Valley Railway and thus to the national railway network. This route was built by Birkenfelder Lokalbahn GmbH.[4]

After the end of the Second World War, the Birkenfeld Railway lost significance, as trade with the nearby Saar Protectorate, which was occupied by France, was restricted. This situation was only resolved in the 1950s. From the 1960s onwards several bus routes were established, which ran parallel to the line.[4]

Financial problems at Degussa AG and Birkenfelder Ziegelei, which were connected to the railway, as well as decreasing passenger numbers finally led to the decommissioning and dismantling of the line in the 1970s and 1980s. It was closed on 30 September 1991. Passenger services ended as early as 1962. The entire infrastructure was then dismantled and a cycle path was established on the former track.[4]

The Nahe Valley Railway was electrified between Türkismühle and Neubrücke in the summer of 2014, when it was closed for six weeks. Since then, Regionalbahn line RB 73, which previously ended in Türkismühle has continued to Neubrücke.

Entrance building

The entrance building of Neubrücke station is protected as a monument under the Rhineland Palatinate Conservation Act. It is a one and two-storey sandstone structure, which was built around 1860.

Operations

Neubrücke is served by Regional-Express line RE 3 from Frankfurt or Mainz to Saarbrücken as well as by a Regionalbahn service from Neubrücke to Saarbrücken (RB 73). In the working day peaks, individual Regionalbahn services on line RB 33 to and from Idar-Oberstein/Kirn end or start in Neubrücke.[5][6]

The Saarbrücken–Mainz railway is electrified from Saarbrücken to Neubrücke.

Until 2014, Regional-Express services on line RE 3 were operated with class 612 tilting trains, but since the change of the operator in December 2014 to vlexx, services has been operated with LINT 54 and 81 sets.

On the Neubrücke (Nahe)–Saarbrücken section, services on Regionalbahn line RB 73 are operated with electric multiple units of classes 425 and 426 and on the Neubrücke–Idar-Oberstein(–Mainz) section, services on line RB 33 are operated with LINT 54 and 81 sets.

LineRouteInterval
RE 3(Frankfurt (Main) Hbf –) Mainz Hbf – Bad Kreuznach – Neubrücke (Nahe) – Türkismühle – St. Wendel – Neunkirchen (Saar) – Saarbrücken HbfHourly (to Mainz), every 2 hours (to Frankfurt)
RB 33(Kirn –) Idar-Oberstein – Heimbach – Neubrücke (Nahe)individual services in the peak; operating between Kirn or Idar-Oberstein and Heimbach together with RB 34
RB 73Neubrücke (Nahe) – Türkismühle – St. Wendel – Neunkirchen (Saar) Hbf – Saarbrücken Hbf60 mins

Neubrücke (Nahe) station is also a stop for coach services on the Luxembourg–Frankfurt am Main route operated by DeLux-Express.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ "RNN Wabenplan 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Nahe-Nahverkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 3 "Geschichte der Birkenfelder Eisenbahn" (in German). Birkenfelder Eisenbahn. Archived from the original on 10 October 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  5. ↑ "2017 Timetable: table 680: Mainz – Bad Kreuznach – Idar-Oberstein – Neubrücke – St. Wendel – Saarbrücken" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "2017 Timetable: table 680: Saarbrücken – St. Wendel – Neubrücke – Idar-Oberstein – Bad Kreuznach – Mainz" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
  7. ↑ "DeLux-Express" (in German). Retrieved 18 May 2017.
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