page_title: Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof
section_title: Local services
hierarchical_section_title: Neustadt (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof / Operations / Local services
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Regional-Express mit Triebwagen der DBAG-Baureihe 612 im Neustädter (Weinstraße) Hauptbahnhof in Rheinland-Pfalz auf dem Weg nach Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg
context_page_description: Neustadt Hauptbahnhof – called Neustadt a/d. Haardt until 1935 and from 1945 until 1950 – is the central station of in the city of Neustadt in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition to the Hauptbahnhof, Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn services stop at Neustadt Böbig halt. Mußbach station and Neustadt halt, opened on 19 November 2013, are also located in Neustadt.
  The station was opened on 11 June 1847 as the terminus of the first section of the Palatine Ludwig Railway from Rheinschanze to Bexbach; this was opened over its full length two years later and now largely forms the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway. With the opening of the Palatine Maximilian Railway to Wissembourg in 1855 and the Palatine Northern Railway, built from 1865 to 1873, to Monsheim, it developed into a railway junction and also became a stop for long-distance trains. Since the 2000s, however, its importance for long-distance traffic has fallen. Since 2003, it has also been integrated into the network of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn. In addition, its entrance building is under heritage protection.
context_section_description: A total of 8,017 persons used the line during its first month of operations. After the opening of the Northern Railway in 1873, passenger trains often continued to go past Monsheim for several decades to Marnheim on the  Langmeil–Monsheim railway. In the summer of 1914, the local traffic trains on the Alsenz Valley, instead of running to Kaiserslautern, ran on the Bad Münster–Neustadt route, requiring a reversal in Hochspeyer station.
  After the First World War, local services to the south rarely continued to Wissembourg. After 1930 only one train ran from Neustadt to Wissembourg. In the opposite direction, there was no service between the two towns that did not require a change of trains. A similar picture emerged after the Second World War. There were not, with a few exceptions, direct services from Wissembourg, which was again the French border station, to Neustadt; instead a change in Landau was required. The traffic towards Wörth and Karlsruhe increased in importance because of the loss of traffic on the southern section of the Maximilian Railway which crosses the German-French border. On the Northern Railway there was now no direct services to Monsheim; instead, a change in Grünstadt and sometimes in Freinsheim was necessary, as within the northern part of Bad Dürkheim district, traffic flows towards Ludwigshafen and Frankenthal.
  On Sundays and public holidays from May to October, the excursion train Bundenthaler runs to the destinations of Bundenthal-Rumbach/Pirmasens. The train splits in Hinterweidenthal Ost. The excursion trains Weinstraßen-Express and Elsass-Express also run to Wissembourg. The Rheintal-Express runs via Bad Kreuznach and Bingen (Rhein) Hbf to Koblenz.
caption: Regional-Express operated by class 612 diesel multiple unit in Neustädt station on its way to Karlsruhe
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