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Railway station in Bayreuth, Germany

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Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof

The station building

General information

Location

Bahnhofsstraße, 20
Bayreuth, Bavaria
Germany

Coordinates

49°57′0″N 11°34′49″E / 49.95000°N 11.58028°E / 49.95000; 11.58028

Owned by

Deutsche Bahn

Operated by

Line(s)

Platforms

Tracks

Other information

Station code

0439

DS100 code

NBY

Overview

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.

Train services

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. Later that year, the FSX was rerouted through Marktredwitz for a fully electrified railway.

Regional Rail Services

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.

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. Today, DB Regio uses the Class 612 DMUs exclusively, and agilis operates the Stadler Regio-Shuttle RS1.

Line	Route	Frequency	Operator
RE 30	Hof – Bayreuth – Pegnitz – Nürnberg	60 min	DB Regio Bayern
RE 32	Nürnberg – Bayreuth – Kulmbach – Lichtenfels – Coburg	120 min
RE 38	Nürnberg – Bayreuth – Kulmbach – Lichtenfels – Bamberg	120 min
RB 24	Bayreuth – Kulmbach – Lichtenfels – Coburg	60 min	agilis
RB 34	Weiden (Oberpf) – Kirchenlaibach – Bayreuth – Weidenberg	60 min
RB 97	Bad Steben – Hof – Marktredwitz – Kirchenlaibach – Bayreuth	60 min

Gallery

The station building seen from the track side
View of the platforms
The station in 1987

Literature

Robert Zintl: Bayreuth und die Eisenbahn. Gondrom, Bindlach 1992, ISBN 3811207806

References

(in German) Bayreuth Hauptbahnhof on bahnhof.de (DB)
^ (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.

External links

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