Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof
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 The station building | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Bahnhofsstraße, 20[1] Bayreuth, Bavaria Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°57′0″N 11°34′49″E / 49.95000°N 11.58028°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 3[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 5[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 0439 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | NBY[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | VGN: 1201[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in the German town of Bayreuth, in northern Bavaria.
Overview
[edit]Railway lines run north to Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg, and from there to Bamberg and over the Schiefe Ebene to Hof, east to Weidenberg, southeast to Weiden and south to Schnabelwaid with connections to Nuremberg on the Pegnitz Valley Railway. The lines around Bayreuth are all single-tracked and non-electrified.[citation needed]
Train services
[edit]Due to the fact that all four railway lines are single-track and non-electrified, Bayreuth is currently only served by regional rail services. From December 2007 until December 2013, the Franken-Sachsen-Express provided a direct connection from Nuremberg to Dresden. The technology used for this was the Class 612 diesel multiple set. After the electrification of the railway between Plauen and Hof in 2013, the Franken-Sachsen-Express required a transfer in Hof and had a longer travel time due to the use of non-tilting electric trains.[4] Later that year, the FSX was rerouted through Marktredwitz for a fully electrified railway.[5]
Regional Rail Services
[edit]Regional routes serving Bayreuth are operated by DB Regio and the private company agilis. Since 2014, regional rail services in Bayreuth have belonged to the Integrated Transport Association of Greater Nuremberg (VGN, for Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg). There are Regional-Express links via Lichtenfels to Bamberg and Würzburg, and via Lichtenfels and Kronach to Saalfeld.[citation needed]
Beginning on 23 May 1992, tilting diesel multiple units of Class 610 have worked the railway through the Pegnitz valley from Nuremberg to Bayreuth. These were bought by the former Deutsche Bundesbahn specifically for the winding railway. These trains proved quite reliable and reduced the travel time significantly.[6] Today, DB Regio uses the Class 612 DMUs exclusively, and agilis operates the Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1.
| Train class |
Route | Frequency | VGN Route(s) |
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| RE | Hof – Münchberg – Marktschorgast – Bayreuth – Pegnitz – Nürnberg | Every 2 hours[7] | 
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| RE | Bayreuth – Pegnitz – Hersbruck (r. Pegnitz) – Nürnberg Hbf | Hourly[7] |
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| RE | Main-Saale-Express: Bayreuth – Trebgast – Neuenmarkt-Wirsberg – Kulmbach – Lichtenfels (– Bamberg) |
Hourly[7] | R35 |
| ag | Weiden (Oberpf) – Kirchenlaibach – Bayreuth – Bayreuth-St. Georgen – Weidenberg | Hourly[8] |  
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| ag | Bayreuth – Neuenmarkt-Wirsbirg – Hochstadt-Markzeuln – Lichtenfels ( – Coburg) | Hourly[8] | R24
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| ag | Bayreuth – Kirchenlaibach – Marktredwitz – Oberkotzau – Hof Hbf – Bad Steben | Every 2 hours[8] | 
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Gallery
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The station building seen from the track side -
View of the platforms -
The station in 1987
Literature
[edit]- Robert Zintl: Bayreuth und die Eisenbahn. Gondrom, Bindlach 1992, ISBN 3811207806
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ (in German) Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof on bahnhof.de (DB)
- ^ a b c (in German) Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof on DB Netz website
- ^ "Tarifzonenplan: VGN-Gesamtraum" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Großraum Nürnberg. 1 January 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 October 2019. Retrieved 24 October 2019.
- ^ sz-online. "Franken-Sachsen-Express droht das Aus" [Franken-Sachsen-Express threatens to end]. SZ-Online (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-23.
- ^ Germany, nordbayern.de, Nürnberg. "Franken-Sachsen-Express rollt weiter" [Franken-Sachsen-Express rolls on] (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Kollorz, Wolfgang. "Baureihe 610 - Index". www.nahverkehr-franken.de. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
- ^ a b c "Bayreuth Hbf 17/18 Ab - ***Heft Abfahrt/Ankunft***" (PDF). www.bahn.de. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
- ^ a b c "Fahrpläne - agilis Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG". agilis Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG (in German). Retrieved 2018-03-20.
External links
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Media related to Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof at Wikimedia Commons
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