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unusual facts about Palatine Ludwig Railway



Neckar Valley Railway

In a few years, the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn network is expected to be reorganised so that S-Bahn services on the Neckar Valley Railway no longer run on the Palatine Ludwig Railway to Kaiserslautern; instead they will run from Schifferstadt via Speyer to Germersheim and later to Bruchsal.

Neunkirchen Hauptbahnhof

Since the line between Saarbrücken and Homburg (the Palatine Ludwig Railway) was heavily damaged, the less damaged lines from Saarbrücken to Neunkirchen (the Nahe Valley Railway via Sulzbach and the Fischbach Valley Railway) was repaired and returned to operations on 25 June 1945.

Schifferstadt station

Schifferstadt station is a separation station in the town of Schifferstadt in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where the Speyer line branches off from the Palatine Ludwig Railway.


see also

Homburg–Neunkirchen railway

Historically, the Homburg–Bexbach section was in Bavaria and was built as part of the Palatine Ludwig Railway.

Saarbrücken Railway

on 15 October 1879, the Fischbach Valley Railway from Saarbrücken via Quierschied to Neunkirchen and a link via Scheidt to the former terminus of the Palatine Ludwig Railway at St. Ingbert.