Altenglan station

Altenglan

Through station (since 1996);
separation station (1904–1995);
through station (1868–1904)

Location

Bahnhofstr. 45, Altenglan, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany

Coordinates

49°32′51″N 7°27′45″E / 49.5474°N 7.4624°ECoordinates: 49°32′51″N 7°27′45″E / 49.5474°N 7.4624°E

Line(s)

Landstuhl–Kusel (13.9)
Homburg–Bad Münster (32.0 km)

Platforms

Other information

Station code

DS100 code

SALG

IBNR

8000491

Category

Website

www.bahnhof.de

History

Opened

22 September 1868

Services

Preceding station		Deutsche Bahn		Following station
Theisbergstegen toward Kaiserslautern Hbf		RB 67 Landstuhl–Kusel railway		Rammelsbach toward Kusel

Altenglan station is the station of the village of Altenglan in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. and has two platforms and sidings. The station is located in the network area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) and it is in fare zone 768 and 770. The address of the station is Bahnhofstraße 45.

It was created on 22 September 1868 as a through station with the opening of the Landstuhl–Kusel railway. It became a junction station with the completion of the Glan Valley Railway (Glantalbahn), Homburg–Bad Münster on 1 May 1904, which was built as a strategic railway. It lost this function when traffic between Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach on the Glan Valley Railway was closed at the end of 1995. Since 2000, it has also been the southern end of a section of the Glan Valley Railway from Altenglan to Staudernheim that is used for a recreational draisine operation.

The station is located on the southern outskirts of Altenglan. It has a parking area, bicycle parking, bus connections to the surrounding countryside, a turning loop for buses as well as barrier-free access.

Just before reaching Altenglan station, the line from Landstuhl to Kusel and the largely-disused Glan Valley Railway came together and both lines continue to the south towards Glan-Münchweiler. The tracks of the Glan Valley Railway no longer connect with the other tracks in Altenglan; a draisine operation has run between Altenglan and Staudernheim since 2000.

The first attempts to have a railway built through the western North Palatine Uplands towards Kusel go back to 1856. During the construction of the Rhine-Nahe Railway (Rhein-Nahe Eisenbahn), a route was proposed by the Bavarian Palatinate, which would have run from near Boos on the Nahe along the Glan via Lauterecken and Altenglan, then along the Kuselbach via Kusel to Sankt Wendel or along the Oster to Neunkirchen. However, the efforts were unsuccessful since Prussia preferred to have such a railway line primarily on its own territory.

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