Neustadt (Schwarzwald) station

Neustadt (Schwarzw)
Through station
A Regionalbahn service on the Höllentalbahn and a Ringzug DMU in Neustadt station
Location	Bahnhofstr. 1, Neustadt, Titisee-Neustadt, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	47°54′37″N 8°12′39″E / 47.910198°N 8.210883°E / 47.910198; 8.210883Coordinates: 47°54′37″N 8°12′39″E / 47.910198°N 8.210883°E / 47.910198; 8.210883
Line(s)	Freiburg (Breisgau)–Donaueschingen (km 34.9)
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	4451
DS100 code	RNSS
IBNR	8004331
Category	5
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1887

Neustadt (Schwarzw) station is one of two stations in Titisee-Neustadt in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The other is Titisee. It is located in Neustadt at 805 metres above sea level on the Höllentalbahn, which links Freiburg with Donaueschingen. The station has three platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 5 station. Established in 1887, the entrance building is now heritage-listed and houses among other things a DB agency with ticket sales.

Neustadt station is approximately 200 metres west of the centre of Neustadt, a district of the municipality of Titisee-Neustadt. The station building is east of the tracks and has the address of Bahnhofstrasse 1. The station area is to the west of Bahnhofstrasse and Saiger Straße (street) crosses over the station tracks at a level crossing at the southern end of the station. North of the station there is another level crossing over Schwarzenbachweg. State road 172 crosses the station tracks using a bridge that spans the entire valley including the Gutach river and Gutachstraße. To the east of the station is a wooded area, which federal highway 31 passes through. There is commuter parking next to Saiger Straße.

Neustadt station is a through station on the Höllentalbahn ("Hell Valley Railway", line number 4300), which runs from Freiburg to Donaueschingen. The Höllentalbahn is a single-track mainline and is electrified between Freiburg and Neustadt. In the Deutsche Bahn timetable, the electrified line from Neustadt to Freiburg is listed in table 727 and the non-electrified section from Neustadt to Donaueschingen is listed in table 755.

Construction of the first part of the Höllentalbahn from Freiburg to Neustadt began in 1882 and the line was opened by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railways (Großherzoglich Badische Staatseisenbahnen) on 21 May 1887. Neustadt station was built as a terminus station with facilities for maintaining steam locomotives and a roundhouse. A goods shed and a loading dock were available for freight traffic and a siding was built to the Fürstlich-Fürstenberg paper mill a few years after the opening of the line. Due to a shortage of funds, the extension of the Höllentalbahn from Neustadt to Donaueschingen was delayed, so the line was not opened until 20 August 1901. This made Neustadt into a through station. In 1910, Neustadt received a fireless locomotive to handle operations on the siding to the paper mill. After the First World War, the station acquired another steam locomotive.