Weil am Rhein station
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Weil am Rhein
 
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| Junction station | |
View of the freight yard
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| Location | Basler Str., 79576 Weil am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 47°35′37″N 7°36′31″E / 47.59374°N 7.60853°ECoordinates: 47°35′37″N 7°36′31″E / 47.59374°N 7.60853°E |
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| Tracks | 6 |
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| Station code | 6606 |
| DS100 code | RW |
| IBNR | 80006606 |
| Category | 4 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 20 February 1855 |
Weil am Rhein station is a small railway junction in Weil am Rhein in the German state of Baden-Württemberg on the German-Swiss border. The Weil am Rhein–Lörrach railway (known as the Gartenbahn—"Garden Railway") branches off the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway (Rhine Valley Railway) at the station. From 1878 to 1937, the station was the starting point of the Saint-Louis–Weil railway to the French town of Saint-Louis.
The Rhine Valley Railway was completed in 1855 with the opening of the Haltingen–Basel section through Weil am Rhein. Weil am Rhein station was established at the same time.
The Weil am Rhine–Lörrach railway was opened on 20 May 1890 by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway as part of a strategic railway to bypass Switzerland. A railway line was had already been opened on 11 February 1878 between Weil am Rhein and Saint-Louis, providing a connection from Alsace (which had been captured from France in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870) to the far south of the German Empire.
The Basel-Weil marshalling yard was opened in 1913.
The Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Weil am Rhein – Efringen-Kirchen section of the Rhine Valley Railway and the whole of the Weil am Rhine–Lörrach railway were electrified in 1952.
The Weil am Rhine–Lörrach railway was included in the trinational Basel Regional S-Bahn as line S5 from the introduction of the 2004/2005 timetable on 12 December 2004. Services on the line have been operated since 15 June 2003 by SBB GmbH, the German subsidiary of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).
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