Junction station | |
General information | |
Location | Bahnhofstr. 1, Hochspeyer, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
Coordinates | 49°26′39″N 7°54′17″E / 49.4441°N 7.9046°E |
Line(s) |
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Platforms | 4 |
Other information | |
Station code | 2805[1] |
DS100 code | SHY[2] |
IBNR | 8002875 |
Category | 4[1] |
Fare zone | VRN: 100[3] |
Website | www.bahnhof.de |
History | |
Opened | 29 October 1870 |
Previous names |
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Hochspeyer station – originally officially Neuhochspeyer or Neu-Hochspeyer – is the station of the town of Hochspeyer in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as belonging to category 4 and it has four platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar transport association, VRN) and belongs to fare zone 100. Its address is Bahnhofstraße 1.[4]
It is located on the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway, which essentially consists of the Palatine Ludwig Railway (Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn, Ludwigshafen–Bexbach). It became a junction station on 29 October 1870, with the opening of the Alsenz Valley Railway (Alsenztalbahn) to Winnweiler; half a year later this line was extended to Bad Münster. The importance of this line, however, fell with the opening of Kaiserslautern–Enkenbach railway a few years later. Since December 2003, it has also been a stop for lines S1 and S2 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn.