Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof

Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof
Through station
Panorama of station building and track
General information
Location	Bahnhofsplatz 5, Homburg (Saar), Saarland Germany
Coordinates	49°19′40″N 7°20′13″E / 49.32778°N 7.33694°E / 49.32778; 7.33694
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Palatine Ludwig Railway (KBS 670) Homburg–Neunkirchen (KBS 683) Glan Valley Railway, closed Blies Valley Railway, closed
Platforms	7
Other information
Station code	2892[1]
DS100 code	SHO[2]
IBNR	8000176
Category	3[1]
Fare zone	SaarVV: 541[3] VRN: 541 (SaarVV transitional tariff)[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
Passengers
6,500 per day[5]
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Saarbrücken Hbf Terminus ICE 50 Kaiserslautern Hbf towards Dresden Hbf EC/RJ 62 Landstuhl towards Graz Hbf
Location Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof Location within Saarland

Homburg (Saar) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the town of Homburg in the German state of Saarland. It is a through station with four platforms and seven platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a station of category 3. It is located at the junction of the Homburg–Neunkirchen line and the Mannheim–Saarbrücken line (Palatine Ludwig Railway). It has been the western terminus of line S1 of the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn since 2006.

The station divides the town into two halves, separating Homburg-Mitte and Homburg-Erbach. It is about 700 metres away from the town centre. In front of the station area is the central bus station (ZOB), from which both regional and local buses operate.

On 1 July 1848, the line between Kaiserslautern and Homburg was opened. Nine years later, on 7 May 1857, the Blies Valley Railway was opened to Zweibrücken. The Homburg–Rohrbach line, now part of the mainline between Mannheim and Saarbrücken, opened to traffic on 1 January 1904. The electrification of the railway station to Homburg was inaugurated on 8 March 1960. 31 years later, on 6 March 1991, the first EuroCity service, the EC 56: Goethe, stopped in Homburg. A few days later, on 22 March 1991, the first InterCity (IC), the IC 26 stopped here. In the summer and autumn of 1991 the tracks were adapted for the operation of Intercity-Express trains, so that in January 1992, the first ICE (Type 1) ran to Homburg. In the following years, the station and the environment was modernised, including by the installation of electronic noticeboards for outgoing train and bus connections, lifts on all tracks and electronic noticeboards on platforms. Covered bicycle parking was also provided. Various platforms have been upgraded, including platform 1 as the normal platform for Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn services. In 2008, the modernisation of platforms 7 and 8 was completed.

Two long-distance services stop at the station each day The ICE services on the Frankfurt–Paris route have not stopped here since December 2007.

Besides passenger services, eight tracks are allocated for freight operations. Two of the town’s three industrial areas are connected by sidings. There is also a siding on the line to Bexbach connecting to the site of the former army depot in Homburg.

The Deutsche Bahn travel centre is open daily. The station buildings have ticket machines, public telephones, lockers, toilets (including for the disabled), a bistro-cafe, a station bookshop, a restaurant and a photo booth.

• "Track plan of Homburg (Saar) Hbf" (PDF; 182,7 KB) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 12 January 2011.
• "Hauptbahnhof Homburg / Saar" (in German). Private. Archived from the original on 12 January 2014. Retrieved 12 January 2011.