Altenglan station
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 45, Altenglan, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°32′51″N 7°27′45″E / 49.5474°N 7.4624°E | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 96 | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | SALG | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000491 | ||||||||||
| Category | 6 | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | VRN: 788 | ||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 22 September 1868 | ||||||||||
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Altenglan station is the station of the village of Altenglan in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. and has two platforms and sidings. The station is located in the network area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN). The address of the station is Bahnhofstraße 45.
It was created on 22 September 1868 as a through station with the opening of the Landstuhl–Kusel railway. It became a junction station with the completion of the Glan Valley Railway (Glantalbahn), Homburg–Bad Münster on 1 May 1904, which was built as a strategic railway. It lost this function when traffic between Altenglan and Lauterecken-Grumbach on the Glan Valley Railway was closed at the end of 1995. Since 2000, it has also been the southern end of a section of the Glan Valley Railway from Altenglan to Staudernheim that is used for a recreational draisine operation.