page_title: Landstuhl station
section_title: Planning, construction and opening of the Landstuhl–Kusel railway (1860–1870)
hierarchical_section_title: Landstuhl station / History / Planning, construction and opening of the Landstuhl–Kusel railway (1860–1870)
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Titelseite der Denkschrift "Erbauung einer Zweigbahn von Landstuhl nach Kusel durch das Moorbach-, glan- und Kuselbachthal"
context_page_description: Landstuhl station is a station in the town of Landstuhl in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as belonging to station category 3 and has three platforms tracks. The station is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar and belongs to fare zone 844.
  It is located on the Mannheim–Saarbrücken railway, which essentially consists of the Palatine Ludwig Railway, Ludwigshafen–Bexbach. It was opened on 1 July 1848 with the Kaiserslautern–Homburg section of the Palatine Ludwig Railway. The station became a junction station with the opening of the Landstuhl–Kusel railway on 20 September 1868. It has also been served by line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn since December 2006.
  At the moment, the station is under reconstruction, with the construction work due to be completed by the spring of 2019.
context_section_description: According to a memorandum published in Kusel in 1861, the line would run from the Palatine Ludwig Railway through Mohrbach, Glan and Kuselbach to Kusel.
  The first freight train ran on 28 August 1868. The Landstuhl–Kusel railway was officially opened on 20 September 1868. On that day, a special train ran from Ludwigshafen to Kusel, carrying officials of the Palatine Railway and among others the Bavarian Minister of State for Commerce and Public Works, Gustav von Schlör. Two days later the line was released for regular operations. Thus, Landstuhl station became the seventh railway junction within the Palatinate after Schifferstadt (1847), Ludwigshafen (1853), Neustadt an der Haardt (1855), Homburg (1857), Winden (1864) and Schwarzenacker station (1866).
caption: Title page of memorandum for the construction of the line in 1863
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