Göppingen station

Göppingen station is a station in the town of Göppingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a transit station and is situated km 42.1 from Stuttgart on the Fils Valley Railway, which was completed in 1850 from Stuttgart to Ulm.

Göppingen station
Through station
Entrance building
Location	Am Bahnhof 1, Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	48°42′1″N 9°39′8″E
Line(s)	Fils Valley Railway
Platforms	7
Construction
Architect	Hellmut Kasel
Other information
Station code	2189
DS100 code	TGO
IBNR	8000127
Category	3 [1]
Fare zone	: 5 and 6[2]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1847
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station Plochingen towards Karlsruhe IC 60 Ulm towards Munich Preceding station   DB Regio Baden-Württemberg   Following station Faurndau toward Stuttgart Hbf RB Filstalbahn Eislingen (Fils) toward Geislingen (Steige) Faurndau toward Stuttgart Hbf RB Filstalbahn Eislingen (Fils) toward Süßen Faurndau toward Stuttgart Hbf RB Filstalbahn Eislingen (Fils) toward Ulm Hbf Preceding station   DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee   Following station Plochingen toward Stuttgart Hbf RE Filstalbahn Geislingen (Steige) toward Ulm Hbf   Future service as of 15 December 2019   Preceding station   Go-Ahead Baden-Württemberg   Following station Faurndau toward Stuttgart Hbf RB 16 via Geislingen (Steige) Eislingen (Fils) toward Ulm Hbf
Location
Esslingen Location in Baden-Württemberg Esslingen Location in Germany Esslingen Location in Europe

Location

The station is located on the southern edge of the inner city of Göppingen. To its east are large marshalling and freight yards, which are still used occasionally. To its west is a smaller disused freight yard with loading docks and the central bus station.

Station layout

The station consists of an entrance building, which houses a restaurant, two kiosks, a bakery, a bookstore and a travel centre. The former baggage and express freight facility is not used anymore.

It has seven platform tracks, tracks 1 to 7. Only tracks 4 and 6 are regularly used for passenger trains. Only a few regional trains run on tracks 1 and 3. Platform track 5 is used once a day by a City Night Line train from Paris, continuing to Munich.

Track 1 was used until 1986, for traffic on the disused Hohenstaufen Railway (Hohenstaufenbahn) to Schwäbisch Gmünd. Track 7 was used for traffic of the disused Voralb Railway (Voralbbahn) to Boll (passenger service closed on 27 May 1989 and it closed completely on 15 December 1997). In addition, at the eastern end of the platform that serves tracks 6 and 7 there is a dock platform, which formerly bore the number 13, and was used by most of the trains on the Voralb Railway.

The sprawling marshalling yard is now closed, although part of it near the station is used by the construction company Leonhard Weiss. All the other industrial sidings are closed. Similarly, the container terminal, which in the first years of the 1970s was one of the most modern facilities of its kind, was closed down in the mid 1990s.

History

The station was first opened on 11 October 1847 when the Fils Valley Railway (Filstalbahn) reached Göppingen, the line was completed to Ulm in 1850.

On 6 April 1893, the plans for the extension of the main building was approved and then executed. Between 1914 and 1917, the station was expanded and rebuilt again to handle traffic on the new Hohenstaufen Railway to Schwäbisch Gmünd and the then projected Voralb Railway to Boll.

During the Second World War an air raid shelter for 80 people was built in the station forecourt.

On 27 May 1964 today's station building, designed by Hellmut Kasel, was opened on schedule after two years of construction.[3] In the late 1960s, a new freight terminal building was built, but it is no longer used.

Rail services

Long distance

Some InterCity and EuroCity services operate on several lines, using the Stuttgart–Ulm line and stopping at Göppingen station. Moreover, there is a once a day direct connection to Paris on the City Night Line.

Line	Route	Frequency
IC 60	Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Göppingen – Ulm – Augsburg – Munich	120 minutes
IC 32	(Berlin – Hanover – Dortmund –) Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart (– Göppingen – Ulm – Lindau – Innsbruck or – Göppingen – Ulm – Oberstdorf)	Individual services

Regional services

Göppingen is served hourly by Regional-Express services between Stuttgart to Ulm and every two-hours by Interregio-Express services between Stuttgart and Lindau. Between Plochingen and Geislingen an der Steige hourly Regionalbahn services also stop in Göppingen.

Line		Frequency
IRE R1	Stuttgart – Plochingen – Göppingen – Geislingen (Steige) – Ulm – Ravensburg – Friedrichshafen – Lindau Central Station	120 minutes
RE R1	Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt – Esslingen (Neckar) – Plochingen – Göppingen – Geislingen (Steige) – Ulm	60 minutes
RB R1	Stuttgart – Bad Cannstatt – Esslingen (Neckar) – Plochingen – Göppingen – Geislingen (Steige) (– Ulm)	30 minutes

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
2. "Tarifzoneneinteilung" (PDF). Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart. 1 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
3. "Zeittafel zur Stadtgeschichte" (in German). Göppingen. Retrieved 19 March 2011.

External links

• "Track plan" (PDF, 177 kB) (in German). DB Netze. Retrieved 19 March 2011.