Junction station | |||||
General information | |||||
Location | Eisenbahnstr. 40, 77855 Achern, Baden-Württemberg Germany | ||||
Coordinates | 48°38′02″N 8°03′56″E / 48.63389°N 8.06556°E | ||||
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Tracks | 4 | ||||
Other information | |||||
Station code | 6[1] | ||||
DS100 code | RAH[2] | ||||
IBNR | 8000412 | ||||
Category | 4[1] | ||||
Fare zone | TGO: 3[3] | ||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||
History | |||||
Opened | 1 June 1844 | ||||
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Achern station is the largest and most important of the four stations in the town of Achern in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located at kilometre 125.3 of the Rhine Valley Railway (Rheintalbahn), which connects Mannheim and Basel and is the starting point of the Acher Valley Railway (Achertalbahn), which runs to Ottenhöfen. The station has four platforms and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 4 station.[1] It has also been the terminus of lines S32 and S4 of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn since December 2004.