Eppingen station

Railway station in Germany

49°08′10″N 8°54′52″E / 49.136213°N 8.914491°E / 49.136213; 8.914491Line(s)

Kraichgau Railway (km 40.76)
Steinsfurt–Eppingen (km 12.64)

Tracks4ConstructionArchitectLudwig DiemerArchitectural styleRenaissance revivalOther informationStation coden/aDS100 codeREP^[1]IBNR8000373Fare zone

HNV: 58^[2]
VRN: 217 (HNV transitional tariff)^[3]
KVV: 278^[4]

HistoryOpened1 June 1844Services

Preceding station	Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn			Following station
Richen (b Eppingen) towards Heidelberg Hbf		S5		Terminus

Location
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Eppingen station is the station of Eppingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a junction station, where the so-called Kraichgau-Stromberg-Bahn ("Kraichgau-Stromberg railway", referring to two nearby regions),^[5] the Steinsfurt–Eppingen railway branches from the Kraichgau Railway (Kraichgaubahn, Heilbronn Eppingen–Karlsruhe railway). It is served by services on S4 line of the Karlsruhe Stadtbahn and the Heilbronn Stadtbahn on the one hand and services on the line S5 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn on the other hand.

Entrance building

The entrance building was built in 1879 according to plans of the Karlsruhe architect Ludwig Diemer in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. The building has belonged since 1 January 2013 to the town of Eppingen and is under heritage protection. It is being restored faithfully for the 2021 State Garden Show (Landesgartenschau), which is to be held in Eppingen.^[6] The station has been substantially restored since September 2013.^[7]

Notes

^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
^ "Tarifzonenplan 2021" (PDF). Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller Nahverkehr. 1 January 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
^ "Wabenplan" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar. February 2021. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
^ "Wabenplan" (PDF). Karlsruher Verkehrsverbund. 13 December 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2021. Retrieved 19 February 2021.
^ The timetable of Heilbronner Hohenloher Haller Nahverkehr GmbH, pp 472-475
^ "Der Bahnhof soll wieder zum Erlebnis werden". Heilbronner Stimme (in German). 17 January 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2016.
^ "Erste Vorarbeiten am Bahnhof". Heilbronner Stimme (in German). 18 September 2013. Retrieved 31 March 2016.

References

Hans-Wolfgang Scharf (2005). Die Eisenbahn im Kraichgau: Eisenbahngeschichte zwischen Rhein und Neckar (in German). Vol. 8. Freiburg im Breisgau: EK-Verlag. ISBN 3-88255-769-9.