Karlsruhe Albtalbahnhof

Karlsruhe Albtalbahnhof is a railway station in Karlsruhe, Germany, next to the Karlsruhe main station. The station is of particular importance for the city as well as for the main train station as it connects the city's tram network with the regional and long-distance rail network of DB Netz. The station is the starting station of the Alb Valley Railway, after which it was named.

Karlsruhe Albtalbahnhof
General information
Coordinates	48°59′37″N 8°23′46″W
Operated by	Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft
Tracks	4
Other information
Station code	RKAB
History
Opened	1 December 1897 (1897-12-01)
Rebuilt	22 March 1915 (1915-03-22)
Previous names	Karlsruhe Albtalbahn, Karlsruhe Messplatz
Location

History

In the 1880s, plans were made for a local railway line that would connect Karlsruhe with Ettlingen and the Alb valley. The meter-gauge line from Karlsruhe to Ettlingen opened on December 1, 1897, with extensions to Herrenalb and Ittersbach following in 1898 and 1899. The local railway line was operated by the Badische Lokal-Eisenbahnen AG (BLEAG). Originally, the Alb valley station in 1897 was located on Ettlinger Straße at the level of today's Nowackanlage and Messplatz, where the Kongresszentrum underground station is today. That is south of where the Karlsruhe main station was originally located, which was then located at the Ettlinger Tor.

On April 18, 1958, the conversion of the tracks from meter-gauge to standard gauge was completed.

Services

The station is served by several Karlsruhe tramway network lines of the Albtal-Verkehrs-Gesellschaft. Other trains use the station only as a connection between the rail networks.

Line	Route	Frequency
S 1	Linkenheim-Hochstetten – Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen – KA-Neureut – Karlsruhe Marktplatz – Albtalbahnhof – KA-Rüppurr – Ettlingen – Waldbronn-Busenbach – Bad Herrenalb	Between Ettlingen and Neureut at 10-minute intervals (weekdays), otherwise 20 minute intervals
S 11	Linkenheim-Hochstetten – Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen – KA-Neureut – Karlsruhe Marktplatz – Albtalbahnhof – KA-Rüppurr – Ettlingen – Waldbronn-Busenbach – Karlsbad-Langensteinbach – Karlsbad-Ittersbach	Between Ettlingen and Neureut at minute intervals (weekdays), otherwise 20 minute intervals
S 12	Karlsruhe Rheinhafen – Entenfang – Europaplatz – Karlstor – Albtalbahnhof – Rüppurr – Ettlingen Stadt – Ettlingen Albgaubad – Busenbach – Reichenbach – Langensteinbach – Ittersbach	Individual trips during rush hour (express)
S 4	Achern – Baden-Baden – Rastatt – Durmersheim – Albtalbahnhof – Karlsruhe Marktplatz – KA-Durlach Bf – Bretten – Eppingen – Heilbronn Bahnhofsvorplatz – Öhringen	3 an hour
S 5	Albtalbahnhof – Hbf Vorplatz – Marktplatz (Pyramide U) – Tullastraße/Alter Schlachthof – Durlach Bf – Grötzingen – Söllingen – Wilferdingen-Singen – Pforzheim Hbf	Individual trips during rush hour (express)
S 51	Karlsruhe-Marktplatz – Albtalbahnhof – Karlsruhe West – Maximiliansau – Wörth – Jockgrim – Rheinzabern – Rülzheim – Bellheim – Germersheim	Hourly
S 52	Karlsruhe Marktplatz (Pyramide U) – Hbf Vorplatz – Albtalbahnhof – Wörth – Germersheim	Individual trips during rush hour (express)
S 7	Achern – Baden-Baden – Rastatt – Durmersheim – Albtalbahnhof – Karlsruhe Tullastraße/VBK
S 8	(Herrenberg –) Eutingen im Gäu – Freudenstadt – Baiersbronn – Forbach (Baden) – Rastatt – Durmersheim – Albtalbahnhof – Karlsruhe Tullastraße/VBK	Every 30 minutes between Freudenstadt Hbf and Freudenstadtstadt, every 60 minutes between Freudenstadt Hbf and Karlsruhe Tullastr., every 120 minutes between Eutingen in the Gäu and Freudenstadt Hbf, a single journey from/to Herrenberg in the evening

External links

• Map of the station