Schwetzingen station
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Schwetzingen
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| Through station | |
Schwetzingen station in December 2008
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| Location | Bahnhofsanlage 1–3, Schwetzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°23′00″N 8°34′43″E / 49.38345°N 8.57853°ECoordinates: 49°23′00″N 8°34′43″E / 49.38345°N 8.57853°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
| Tracks | 3 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 5766 |
| DS100 code | RSZ |
| IBNR | 8005766 |
| Category | 4 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 4 August 1870 |
Schwetzingen station is a through station in Schwetzingen, a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and lies not far from its centre. It is located at kilometre 13.6 of the Rhine Railway, which runs from Mannheim via Hockenheim and Graben-Neudorf to Karlsruhe. North of the station, the line to Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld branches to connect with the Main-Neckar Railway; the branch is almost exclusively used by freight. Until 1967, the Heidelberg–Speyer railway gave Schwetzingen direct connections to Heidelberg and Speyer. The only operating section of this line today is the section from Schwetzingen to the industrial area of Hockenheim-Talhaus, which is used for freight traffic.
It is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 4 station. It has three platform tracks and is served exclusively by DB services. Its address is Bahnhofsanlage 1–3.
Schwetzingen station was opened with the Rhine Railway on the Mannheim–Schwetzingen–Hockenheim–Waghäusel–Graben-Neudorf–Eggenstein–Karlsruhe route on 4 August 1870. The line and the station building formed part of the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway (Großherzoglich Badische Staatseisenbahnen).
In accordance with a law enacted by Baden on 2 February 1870 and a concession issued on 3 April 1872 under the Bavarian-Baden Treaty of 23 November 1871, the Heidelberg–Eppelheim–Plankstadt–Schwetzingen section of the Heidelberg–Speyer railway was opened on 17 July 1873. It was extended to Speyer on 10 December 1873 over a pontoon bridge that had been established for road traffic in 1865. The builder and, until its nationalisation in 1 July 1894, the owner of this line was the Heidelberg Speyer Railway Company (Heidelberg-Speyer-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), but it was operated, along with the Rhine Railway, by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway. With the opening of this line, Schwetzingen station became a small railway junction.
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