Regensburg Hauptbahnhof

Through station

Entrance of the station

General information

Location

Regensburg, Bavaria
Germany

Coordinates

49°0′44″N 12°5′58″E / 49.01222°N 12.09944°E

Owned by

Deutsche Bahn

Operated by

Line(s)

Platforms

Construction

Architectural style

Neo-Renaissance

Other information

Station code

5169

DS100 code

NRH

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Location

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof is located on the southern edge of the old city (Altstadt) in the immediate vicinity of Schloss St. Emmeram. In front of the station building are a taxi rank and the regional bus station. A short distance away is the central public transport hub known as Bustreff Albertstraße. The station has numerous shops; since its renovation in 2004 the overbridge also enables access to the Regensburg Arcade shopping centre south of the station tracks. At the site there are 177 car parking bays and stands for 300 bicycles.

History

Regensburg was connected to the railway network relatively late; although the first line in Bavaria opened in 1835, it took until 1859 for the Bavarian Eastern Railway (Königlich privilegirte Aktiengesellschaft der bayerischen Ostbahnen) to link this east Bavarian metropolis with Nuremberg and Munich, the first line to be built going via Amberg. In 1860 Regensburg was connected to Passau; in 1873 a direct line to Nuremberg was opened; and this was followed by a connection to Ingolstadt in 1874.

The first station building was built between 1859 and 1864 at the southern end of Maximilianstraße to plans by architect Heinrich von Hügel, its great length, twin towers and five-arched portal reflecting the influence of the Italian renaissance. The building was torn down in 1888 and replaced by a new building in the contemporary style of the Gründerzeit. This second station building was destroyed in World War II; its successor was finished in 1955 and renovated in 2004.

After just under five years of construction, a new signal box went into service at the Hauptbahnhof in spring 1988. At a cost of 24 million DM it replaced eight old signal boxes that had been repaired at the end of the Second World War. Plans for the replacement began in 1981. 180 sets of points and 220 signals in the marshalling yard and main station are controlled by the new box; the 9-metre-long control panel was designed for an expansion of the area to be controlled. For the first time in the history of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, time signals were no longer controlled by cable but by long wave transmissions from the Mainflingen transmitter.^[3]

The marshalling yard, which is west of the main passenger station and adjacent to it, has been closed and is to be demolished.

Operational usage

Regensburg is situated at the crossing of the main line railway lines Munich-Hof and Nuremberg-Passau; smaller branch lines connect Regensburg to Ulm and Prague.

Regensburg today sees about 200 trains per day, most of them operated by Deutsche Bahn AG, though some regional services are operated by Vogtlandbahn. The following is a summary as of December 2020:

Train type	Route	Frequency (mins)
ICE 91	Vienna – Regensburg – Nuremberg – Würzburg – Hamburg-Altona / Rostock	120
IC 17	Vienna – Passau – Regensburg – Nuremberg – Fürth – Erlangen – Bamberg – Lichtenfels – Leipzig – Berlin – Rostock – Warnemünde	Once a day
RE 2	Munich – Regensburg – Schwandorf – Hof	120
RE 50	Munich – Regensburg – Nuremberg	120
RE 18	Ulm – Donauwörth – Günzburg – Ingolstadt – Regensburg	Sat, Sun and public hols: 120
RE 22	Regensburg – Munich Airport	60
RE 23	Regensburg – Schwandorf – Marktredwitz	Some trains
RE 25	Munich – Freising – Landshut – Regensburg – Schwandorf – Furth im Wald – Prague	120
RE 40	Regensburg – Schwandorf – Amberg – Nuremberg	120
RE 50	Munich – Freising – Landshut – Regensburg – Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz – Nuremberg	120
RB 15	Regensburg − Ingolstadt − Donauwörth − Günzburg − Ulm	60 Sat, Sun and public hols: 120
RB 17	(Ingolstadt Nord –) Ingolstadt Hbf – Regensburg (– Straubing – Plattling)	Mon–Fri: 60 or 120
RB 23	Regensburg – Schwandorf – Weiden – Marktredwitz	60
RB 51	Neumarkt − Regensburg − Plattling	60

The platform announcements which inform travellers of the arrival and departure of trains at Regensburg Hauptbahnhof and also welcome alighting passengers were digitalised in July 2008.

References

^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
^ "RVV-Tarifzonenplan/Streckenplan Region (Hauptnetz)". Regensburger Verkehrsverbund. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 24 December 2021.
^ Meldung Neues Zentralstellwerk für Regensburg. In: Die Bundesbahn 1988, No. 5, p. 479 (in German)