Station code 5865 IBNR 8000073 Address 78224 Singen, Germany Platforms in use 8 | DS100 code RSI Category 2 Opened 1863 | |
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Location Bahnhofstr. 2, Singen, Baden-Württemberg
Germany Line(s) Upper Rhine Railway (km 384.1) (KBS 730)
Black Forest Railway (Baden) (km 149.1) (KBS 720)
Gäu Railway (km 149.1) (KBS 740)
Randen Railway (km 0.0) (closed)
Etzwilen–Singen railway (km 45.10) (closed) Similar Offenburg station, Hohentwiel, Hegau‑Museum, Rottweil station, Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof | ||
Singen (Hohentwiel) station is an important regional railway junction and interchange station in the town of Singen in the south of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Three railways now meet there, but in the past five railways connected to it. The station is served by InterCity trains on the Stuttgart–Zurich route and it is the end of line S22 of the Zurich S-Bahn.
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Name
Deutsche Bahn officially call the station Singen (Hohentwiel). Because of its size and its significance for the district of Konstanz, the station is sometimes referred to as Singen Hauptbahnhof locally. In addition, the abbreviations Singen (Hohentw), Singen (Htw) and just Singen are used.
Railway lines
Singen is the starting point of the Gäu Railway (Gäubahn) to Stuttgart. On this line, the city is a stop for InterCity services between Stuttgart, Singen, Schaffhausen and Zurich. In addition, trains on the Black Forest Railway (Badische Schwarzwaldbahn), connecting Singen Offenburg and Konstanz stop in Singen. The Upper Rhine Railway (Hochrheinbahn) provides connections to Basel.
History
Singen owes its development from a farming village into industrial town primarily to its role as a railway junction. The railway reached the village for the first time in 1863, when the Upper Rhine Railway was completed from Basel to Konstanz (Constance). Ten years later, the Black Forest Railway was completed from Offenburg to Konstanz, connecting with the Upper Rhine Railway in Singen. The Etzwilen–Singen railway to Switzerland completed the main lines connecting with Singen.
Large Swiss companies established their German branch factories in Singen, not least because of its good rail connection. The factory workers were now brought to work in Singen in great numbers by train. A local commuter railway, the Randen Railway (Randenbahn), was built in 1912, but it was closed in 1966.
The railway used to be one of the largest employers in Singen. The first station building was soon replaced by a more solid building, which still stands with small changes. The goods yard, which formerly stood on the other side of the tracks with sidings connecting directly from the factories, soon became too small. Therefore, a new freight yard was built in 1927.
The section of the Upper Rhine Railway between Schaffhausen and Singen was electrified in 1989.
ICE trainsets 403 015 and 403 515 (ICE 3, class 403) were given the name of Singen (Hohentwiel) in Singen station on 7 June 2008.
Operations
Singen (Hohentwiel) has been part of the Verkehrsverbund Hegau-Bodensee (Hegau-Bodensee Transport Association, VHB) since its inception in 1996.
Long-distance services
Singen station is a stop every two hours for InterCity services running between Stuttgart and Zurich via Singen and Schaffhausen. These trains are operated by the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). The long-distance service is operated by the Swiss Federal Railways on behalf of the Deutsche Bahn (as of 2012).
Furthermore, on weekends a pair of Inter City services, operating as the Bodensee (Lake Constance), connect Konstanz with Dortmund, Emden and Norddeich Mole.
A pair of IC services called Schwarzwald ("Black Forest") was operated from Hamburg to Konstanz, replacing one of the hourly cycle of regional services, until its discontinuation in December 2014 and it was then replaced by another regional train between Offenburg and Konstanz.
Regional services
In regional transport, Interregio-Express and Regional-Express services stop in Singen, giving through connections to Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Basel, Konstanz and Ulm via Friedrichshafen.
A Regionalbahn service connects Singen with Schaffhausen. Offset by half hour, line S22 of the Zurich S-Bahn runs between Singen and Schaffhausen. This service runs from Schaffhausen towards Jestetten.
The Seehas (named after a mythical "lake hare"), an S-Bahn-like transport service, connects Singen to, among other places, Engen as well as Radolfzell, Konstanz and other municipalities on Lake Constance.
Former connections
Formerly the Randen Railway ran from Singen to Beuren Büßlingen. Similarly, the Etzwilen–Singen railway (Etzwilerbahn) ran via Rielasingen to Etzwilen in Switzerland .
Freight traffic
Freight is handled at a container terminal in the industrial area, which provides connections to Italy.
Future
From December 2017, direct IC connection from Stuttgart via Singen to Konstanz will be provided twice daily. These will be operated with modern Intercity 2 double-deck sets.