Schwetzingen station
Schwetzingen station in December 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| General information | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Bahnhofsanlage 1–3, Schwetzingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 49°23′00″N 8°34′43″E / 49.38345°N 8.57853°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5766 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | RSZ | ||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8005494 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | VRN: 124 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 4 August 1870 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Schwetzingen station is a through station in Schwetzingen, a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg and lies not far from its centre. It is located at kilometre 13.6 of the Rhine Railway, which runs from Mannheim via Hockenheim and Graben-Neudorf to Karlsruhe. North of the station, the line to Mannheim-Friedrichsfeld branches to connect with the Main-Neckar Railway; the branch is almost exclusively used by freight. Until 1967, the Heidelberg–Speyer railway gave Schwetzingen direct connections to Heidelberg and Speyer. The only operating section of this line today is the section from Schwetzingen to the industrial area of Hockenheim-Talhaus, which is used for freight traffic.
It is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 4 station. It has three platform tracks and is served exclusively by DB services. Its address is Bahnhofsanlage 1–3.