page_title: Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway
section_title: Weidenthal
hierarchical_section_title: Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway / Operating points / Weidenthal
caption_attribution_description: English: Weidenthal
context_page_description: The Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway is a railway in the German states of Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland that runs through Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Kaiserslautern, Homburg and St. Ingbert. It is the most important railway line that runs through the Palatinate. It serves both passenger and freight transport and carries international traffic.
  The route was largely opened from 1847 to 1849 as the Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn between Ludwigshafen and Bexbach. The line is identical with the Ludwig Railway between Ludwigshafen and Homburg and it therefore often referred to as the Pfälzische Ludwigsbahn. The remaining sections went into operation between 1867 and 1904. The line was electrified from 1960 to 1964. In its present form, the line has existed since 1969, when Deutsche Bundesbahn moved the Ludwigshafen Hauptbahnhof to its current location. Deutsche Bahn operates the route under timetable number 670. Some sections of the line are cleared for speeds of 200 kilometres per hour for the ICE and TGV services between Paris, Kaiserslautern, Mannheim and Frankfurt.
context_section_description: The three-track Weidenthal station is located in the south of the district of Weidenthal and is classified as a category 5 station. The station's platform used to be located in the southern part of the station, where the former entrance building is located. In the course of the construction work for the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn, new platforms were built around 800 metres further north.
  The station has three railway tracks, the middle one of which is a crossing loop. It is one of three places where trains can overtake between Neustadt and Kaiserslautern.
  The local stone quarry was an important freight customer with its own connecting tracks. There, grindstones and millstones were produced and loaded in the first decades. The connecting track from Weidenthal station is currently used by the Feinpapierfabrik Glatz paper factory in nearby Neidenfels.
caption: Weidenthal station
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