Bad Vilbel station

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Bad Vilbel
Logo Deutsche Bahn.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svg
Through station
Bahnhof Bad Vilbel Zugang-und-S-Bahn EOS60D-100-5869.jpg
General information
LocationBahnhofsplatz 1
Bad Vilbel, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°11′18″N8°44′24″E / 50.18833°N 8.74000°E / 50.18833; 8.74000
Line(s)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code358 [1]
DS100 code RMF [2]
IBNR8000760
Category 3 [1]
Fare zone Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund logo.svg : 2601 [3]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened10 May 1850;174 years ago (1850-05-10)
Services
Preceding station Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg DB Regio Mitte Following station
Frankfurt West
towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
RB 34 Bad Vilbel-Gronau
towards Glauburg-Stockheim
Friedberg
towards Treysa
RB 41
selected trains only
 Frankfurt West
towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Preceding station Rhine-Main S-Bahn Following station
Bad Vilbel-Dortelweil
towards Friedberg (Hess)
Frankfurt S6.svg Bad Vilbel Süd
towards Südbahnhof
Location
Hesse location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Bad Vilbel
Location within Hesse

Bad Vilbel station is located at the 183.6 kilometre mark of the Main-Weser Railway in the town of Bad Vilbel in the German state of Hesse. The Nidder Valley Railway branches from Bad Vilbel via Nidderau to Glauburg-Stockheim. The station is located in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station. [1]

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History

Bad Vilbel station was opened with the opening of the Frankfurt–Friedberg section of the Main-Weser Railway station on 10 May 1850. [4] The entire length of the Main-Weser Railway from Kassel to Frankfurt was opened to traffic on 15 May 1852. [4]

The section of the Nidder Valley Railway between Vilbel Nord (now called Bad Vilbel) station and Heldenbergen-Windecken (now Nidderau) was opened on 1 June 1907. A new entrance building was built and put into operation for the opening of the new line. [5] It is now protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act. Operations on the Nidder Valley Railway on weekends were re-established on 4 May 2008.

The Rhine-Main S-Bahn was opened on 28 May 1978. Since then, Bad Vilbel station has been served by S-Bahn line S6, which has operated since 1992 on the Friedberg–Bad Vilbel–Frankfurt Hbf (underground)–Frankfurt South route.

Platforms

Bad Vilbel station has an extensive system of tracks. Five platform tracks (four through tracks and a bay platform) are available for passenger traffic. Renovation of the platforms to achieve barrier-free accessibility began in 2012. There are also several tracks without platforms for freight traffic. [6]

The ticket office was closed in late 2003. [7]

Rail services

The journey time to Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof by S-Bahn is about 20 minutes. There are also Regionalbahn connections to Frankfurt during peak hours and Mittelhessen-Express (RE 41) services stop every two hours. The journey time to Frankfurt station for regional services is about 15 minutes.

Services on S-Bahn line S6 connect Bad Vilbel during the day at approximately 15-minute intervals to inner Frankfurt and Groß Karben. Every second S-Bahn service from Groß Karben continues to Friedberg station.

Since the modernisation of the Nidder Valley Railway, almost all trains on weekdays run to/from Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof. The remaining trains run as Regionalbahn services, beginning and ending in Bad Vilbel.

In the early evening hours, two trains of the Niddertal-Netz (Nidder Valley Network) run as a combined service of lines RB34 and RB48, starting from Frankfurt, uncoupling in Bad Vilbel. While the front part of the train runs to Glauburg-Stockheim, the rear part continues to Nidda. In the morning peak hour, two trains run separately from Nidda via Friedberg to Frankfurt.

Since 13 December 2009, the Mittelhessen-Express has stopped every two hours in Bad Vilbel. Its trains run from Frankfurt to Giessen with two sections coupled together. The sections are split in Giessen. Then one section runs as RE 41 to Treysa and the other section runs to Dillenburg as RB 40.

Since 11 December 2011, the Main-Sieg-Express (RE 99), designated as an RE-sprinter service, has stopped in Bad Vilbel during the morning peak.

Bus

Bad Vilbel is connected by several bus routes to the surrounding cities of Frankfurt, Offenbach am Main, Bad Homburg (Ober-Erlenbach), Karben and Rosbach vor der Höhe. It is also served by five city bus routes.

Future

For many decades it has been planned to add two separate tracks for the S-Bahn to the Main-Weser Railway between Frankfurt and Bad Vilbel, or as far as Friedberg. This is expected to go into operation in 2023 as part of a 10-point program of the Hessian state government to improve transport in Frankfurt Rhine-Main region. Planning permission for the project has already been granted in the Bad Vilbel area. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN   978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 131. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen (in German). Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag. p. 143. ISBN   3-8062-1917-6.
  5. ↑ Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen, ed. (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen (in German). Vol. 2. Stuttgart: Konrad Theiss Verlag. ISBN   3-8062-1917-6.
  6. ↑ "Track plan of Bad Vilbel station" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn . Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Dunkel, stinkig und verdreckt: Bad Vilbels Nordbahnhof erweckt den Eindruck, als sei er schon vor Jahren stillgelegt worden" (PDF). Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 1 March 2005. Archived from the original (PDF; 246 kB) on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  8. ↑ "Streckenausbau Main-Weser – Vier Gleise nach Bad Vilbel". Frankfurter Rundschau (in German). 25 January 2010. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
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