page_title: Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway
section_title: Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim
hierarchical_section_title: Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway / Operating points / Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim
caption_attribution_description: English: building in Ludwigshafen, Germany
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: Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim station lies in the west of the Ludwigshafen district of Rheingönheim and was built around 1870. Originally it was called Rheingönheim. It received a new entrance building in connection with the quadruplication  of the main railway between Schifferstadt and Ludwigshafen. Deutsche Reichsbahn renamed it Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim after the incorporation of the town into Ludwigshafen on 15 May 1939. Since the commissioning of the new Ludwigshafen Hauptbahnhof in 1969, the station has administered as a part of that station. The handling of freight at the station was at one time carried out with the help of an MB-Trac, which also had wheels for running on rail tracks. A siding opened at the end of 2010 connects to the premises of a local company. This was the first new connection to be built for decades to the Mannheim–Saarbrücken line.
caption: Ludwigshafen-Rheingönheim station
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