Reutlingen Hauptbahnhof is the main station in Reutlingen in the German State of Baden-Württemberg. In addition the city has halts (Haltepunkte) at Reutlingen West and in the suburbs of Betzingen and Sondelfingen. They all lie on the Plochingen–Immendingen railway. Reutlingen Süd (south) station (formerly called Eningen station[3]) is no longer in operation.
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 3, Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°29′46″N 9°12′33″E / 48.49611°N 9.20917°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5242 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | TRE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000314 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 3 [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | naldo: 220[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 20 September 1859 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History
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After the citizens of Reutlingen had actively participated in the Revolution of 1848-49, the Württemberg government deliberately delayed the construction of the railway from Plochingen to Reutlingen.[4] The station was finally opened on 20 September 1859. It had an administration building and a customs house, a freight shed, a locomotive depot and a repair workshop with a water supply point.[5]
Until 1994, the Swabian Jura Railway (Schwäbische Albbahn) branched in Reutlingen station. The section of the line from Reutlingen to Kleinengstingen is now closed and dismantled. Until 1985, the Gönningen Railway branched here connecting Reutlingen and Gönningen. In addition, from 1899 to 1974 the Lokalbahn Reutlingen–Eningen (a tramway) operated from the station to Eningen unter Achalm.
Services
editLong distance transport
editSince the timetable change in December 2009 Intercity trains have served Reutlingen. Since December 2023, a pair of trains has run on line 55 to Dresden.
| Line | Route | Frequency |
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| IC 55 | Dresden – Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hanover – Bielefeld – Dortmund – Hagen – Wuppertal – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – ‹See TfM›Plochingen – Reutlingen – Tübingen | 1 train pair |
Regional transport
editRegionalbahn services run from Reutlingen to Bad Urach, Herrenberg, Horb am Neckar and Plochingen and Regional-Express services run to Stuttgart and Tübingen. Interregio-Express services connect to Aulendorf, Rottenburg am Neckar and Stuttgart.
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| IRE 6a | ‹See TfM›Aulendorf – Herbertingen – ‹See TfM›Sigmaringen – Albstadt-Ebingen – Balingen – Hechingen – | Tübingen (train split/joined) – Reutlingen – Stuttgart | Every two hours | DB Regio Baden-Württemberg | |
| IRE 6b | Rottenburg – | ||||
| IRE 6 | Tübingen – Reutlingen – Metzingen – Stuttgart | SWEG Bahn Stuttgart | |||
| MEX 12 | Tübingen – Reutlingen – Metzingen – Bempflingen – ‹See TfM›Nürtingen – Oberboihingen – Wendlingen – ‹See TfM›Plochingen – Esslingen | – Stuttgart – Heilbronn – (‹See TfM›Mosbach-Neckarelz) | Hourly | ||
| – Stuttgart Hbf | Additional peak hour services | ||||
| MEX 18 | Tübingen – Reutlingen – Metzingen – Nürtingen – Wendlingen – Plochingen – Esslingen – Stuttgart – Heilbronn – ‹See TfM›Osterburken | Hourly | |||
| RB 63 | ‹See TfM›Herrenberg – Tübingen – Reutlingen – Metzingen (– Bad Urach) | Herrenberg–Metzingen: every 30 minutes;
Metzingen–Bad Urach: hourly |
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Local transport
editThe station from 1899 to 1974 was the focal point of the Reutlingen Tramway. Today it has this role for most of the bus lines of the city bus company, Reutlinger Stadtverkehrsgesellschaft (RSV).
Infrastructure
editReutlingen station has three main platform tracks. The sprawling freight yard has been closed for some years, but the tracks are intact.
References
edit- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
- ^ "naldo-Tarifwabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Neckar-Alb-Donau. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Reutlingen - Kleinengstingen (Ezachtalbahn)" (in German). vergessene-bahnen.de. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ^ "Romantik, Realismus, Revolution – Das 19. Jahrhundert" (in German). City of Reutlingen. Archived from the original on 9 December 2011. Retrieved 25 January 2012.
- ^ G. Kuttler: Die Schwäbische Eisenbahn - Topographisch, historisch und ästhetisch geschildert - ein Handbuch für gebildete Reisende. Mit einer Eisenbahnkarte, Heilbronn, 1859, p. 155 (Text at Google books).
External links
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Media related to Reutlingen Hauptbahnhof at Wikimedia Commons
