Plochingen station
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Plochingen station
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Plochingen station
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| Location |
Plochingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 48°42′47″N 9°24′42″E / 48.71306°N 9.41167°ECoordinates: 48°42′47″N 9°24′42″E / 48.71306°N 9.41167°E |
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| Platforms | 8 |
| Construction | |
| Architect | Theodor Fischer |
| Architectural style | Art Nouveau |
| Other information | |
| Station code | n/a |
| DS100 code | TP |
| Category | 2 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 14 December 1846 |
| Electrified | 1 June 1933 |
Plochingen station is the only station in the town of Plochingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and the most important railway junction of the Esslingen district. It is located 22.8 kilometres from Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof on the Fils Valley Railway and at the beginning of the Neckar-Alb Railway.
In the planning of the Fils Valley Railway (German: Filstalbahn) from Stuttgart to Ulm the chief engineer Michael Knoll foresaw a station southeast of Plochingen. At that time, approximately 1,900 people lived in the market town and its vineyards. On 14 December 1846, the Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen) officially opened the Esslingen–Plochingen line. The completion of the next section to Süßen took place on 11 October 1847. The first station building, which no longer exists, was a two-storey sandstone building. In 1852, a second track was completed on the Fils Valley line from Cannstatt to Plochingen. On 20 September 1859, the station became a junction station with the opening of the line then called the Upper Neckar Railway (Oberen Neckarbahn) to Tübingen.
In 1900, the Royal Württemberg State Railways planned to build a railway on the south bank of the Neckar from Stuttgart to Plochingen to relieve the Fils Valley line of the transport of freight. The planners revised their concepts several times. In 1909, they decided that the line should end in Esslingen, but this variant was not realised and the plan was abandoned. Proposals for a railway link between Neuhausen and Plochingen were rejected by the State Railways.
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