Grünstadt station

Grünstadt
Junction station
Location	Grünstadt, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany
Coordinates	49°33′51″N 8°10′04″E / 49.564248°N 8.1677341°E / 49.564248; 8.1677341Coordinates: 49°33′51″N 8°10′04″E / 49.564248°N 8.1677341°E / 49.564248; 8.1677341
Line(s)	Eis Valley Railway Grünstadt–Altleiningen Palatine Northern Railway Worms–Grünstadt
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	2402
DS100 code	RGR
IBNR	8000137
Category	4
History
Opened	21 March 1873; 144 years ago (1873-03-21)
Services
Preceding station   DBAG   Following station Kirchheim (Weinstr) toward Neustadt RB 45 Pfälzische Nordbahn Albsheim (Eis) toward Monsheim Kirchheim (Weinstr) toward Frankenthal Hbf RB 46 Eistalbahn Grünstadt Nord toward Eiswoog

Grünstadt station is a railway junction where the Palatine Northern Railway connects with the Eis Valley Railway and the disused tracks of the Leiningen Valley Railway and the Worms–Grünstadt railway. It is one of three stations in the urban area of Grünstadt in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The station’s entrance building of 1873 as well as parts of the premises are protected as monuments. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.

Grünstadt station was opened on 21 March 1873, with the northern section of the Palatine Northern Railway between Grünstadt and Monsheim. In the same year operations commenced on the section from Bad Durkheim. With the opening of lines to Enkenbach, Worms and Altleiningen, it gained connections in five directions.

Between 1967 and 1984 with the exception of the lines to Bad Durkheim and Frankenthal via Freinsheim, all lines from Grünstadt were shut down and the station became a terminus. Its function as a railway junction was restored in 1995 with the resumption of passenger traffic on the lines to Eisenberg and Monsheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate integrated regular interval timetable.

Coinciding with the reactivation of the Palatine Northern Railway between Grünstadt and Monsheim and the Eis Valley Railway, the station was transformed as a Rhineland-Palatinate pilot project into the Grünstadt “environmental station" (Umweltbahnhof Grünstadt). Key elements of the concept were the reuse of the entrance building and the freight shed, the building of a platform underpass to connect the eastern residential areas and the construction of a bus station between the entrance building and platform 1 and park-and-ride areas to the west and east of the main lines.

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