Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof
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Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof
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| Terminal station | |
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| Location |
Pirmasens, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°12′20″N 7°35′54″E / 49.20556°N 7.59833°ECoordinates: 49°12′20″N 7°35′54″E / 49.20556°N 7.59833°E |
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| Platforms | 3 |
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| Station code | 4941 |
| DS100 code | SPS |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 25 November 1875 |
Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof is a terminal station in the town of Pirmasens, in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, about one kilometre from the city centre. It was opened on 25 November 1875 and is the terminus of the Biebermühl Railway (Biebermühlbahn), which was also opened in 1875 as a branch line from the Southern Palatinate Railway (Südpfalzbahn). The Pirmasens Nord station lies on the edge of Thaleischweiler-Fröschen, so Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof is actually the only station in the city of Pirmasens.
Due to the unfavourable geography of Pirmasens, the station is now only connected by a single track and non-electrified branch line. This route, called the Biebermühl Railway, runs almost seven kilometres north to Pirmasens Nord station. From Pirmasens Hbf Regionalbahn trains run to Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof over the Biebermühl Railway, to Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof via Zweibrücken Hauptbahnhof and Rohrbach over the Schwarzbach Valley Railway and to Landau (Pfalz) Hauptbahnhof over the Queich Valley Railway, requiring a reversal in Pirmasens Nord.
Pirmasens station was built in 1875 with the construction of the branch line from Biebermühl station (now Pirmasens Nord station) to Pirmasens. It was built by the Palatinate Railway (Pfalzbahn), which was taken over in 1909 by the Royal Bavarian State Railways (Königliche Bayerische Staats-Eisenbahnen). At the turn of the century, the small station was enlarged because it had become too small for its traffic. In 1907, the stations name was changed to Pirmasens Hauptbahnhof, although there was no other station in Pirmasens. Reflecting its importance for the city of Pirmasens, Biebermühl station was renamed Pirmasens Nord station in 1936, even though it still is not in the city of Pirmasens.
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