Renningen station
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Renningen station
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| Location |
Renningen, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 48°46′30″N 8°55′56″E / 48.77500°N 8.93222°ECoordinates: 48°46′30″N 8°55′56″E / 48.77500°N 8.93222°E |
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| Platforms | 3 (2 used regularly) |
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| Station code | 5226 |
| DS100 code | TRX |
| IBNR | 8000313 |
| Category | 4 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 December 1869 |
Renningen station serves the town of Renningen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is at the junction of the Rankbach Railway (German: Rankbachbahn) and the Württemberg Black Forest Railway (Schwarzwaldbahn). It is a station on the Stuttgart S-Bahn network.
From 1865 onwards Renningen was expecting a rail connection to be built to it, but the Royal Württemberg State Railways was only able to build the Black Forest Railway in stages. The Ditzingen–Weil der Stadt section was opened on 1 December 1869. The station was about one kilometre north of the location of the village at that time. The present Bahnhofstraße was a dirt road that ran through marshes and fields to the new railway, which was widened just before the line opened. Carters however used the road to Rutesheim and left it, where it was closest to the station. There, the municipality built a straight paved road (now called Alte Bahnhofstraße, “Old Station Street”) to connect with the station.
In 1913, the State Railways began building the Rankbach Railway as part of a freight bypass around the Stuttgart basin. It ran between Böblingen and Renningen, creating a connection between the Gäu Railway (Gäubahn) and the Black Forest Railway. It was opened on 23 December 1914 from Böblingen to Sindelfingen and on 1 October 1915 to Renningen. In 1913, a plan was submitted for a line called the Platten Railway (Plattenbahn) from Renningen via Friolzheim to Mühlacker, but it was not supported by the State Railways and was never built.
After the First World War and the subsequent economic crisis had been overcome, there was support for the establishment of passenger service on the Rankbach line. Many people in Renningen and Malmsheim found a new job at the Daimler (Daimler-Benz from 1926) plant in Sindelfingen. The line was also used to travel to schools in Sindelfingen and Böblingen. Nevertheless, services were limited. The councils of Renningen and Malmsheim unsuccessfully asked the Railway Administration in Stuttgart for improvements to services.
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