Hinterweidenthal Ost station
Hinterweidenthal Ost station (originally called Kaltenbach Ost and later called Hinterweidenthal until 1970) is one of a total of three stations in the municipality of Hinterweidenthal in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Deutsche Bahn classifies it as a category 6 station and it has two platform tracks. The station is located in the network of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar transport association, VRN) and belongs to fare zone 998.
| Junction station | |
Hinterweidenthal Ost station, then Kaltenbach Ost, 1911 | |
| General information | |
| Location | Kaltenbach 15, Hinterweidenthal, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°12′11″N 7°46′23″E |
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| Platforms | 2 (formerly 3) |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 2780 |
| DS100 code | SHW |
| IBNR | 8079147 |
| Category | 6 |
| Fare zone | VRN: 998 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 December 1911 |
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It was opened in 1911 as a junction station for the newly built Wieslauter Railway to Bundenthal. Its importance has always been as an interchange station between the latter and the Landau–Rohrbach railway, which has existed in its present form since 1895. After passenger services were abandoned at the station, it functioned exclusively as a depot for railway operations and as a freight yard. After traffic on the Wieslauter line was reactivated on weekends in 1997, it has again been served by passenger trains, but only in order for passengers to change trains to and from the main line. Therefore it is only served when the branch line is operating. Its address is Kaltenbach 15.