Regensburg-Prüfening station is one of the three railway stations in the German city of Regensburg

Regensburg

Regensburg is a city in Bavaria, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. To the east lies the Bavarian Forest. Regensburg is the capital of the Bavarian administrative region Upper Palatinate...

 used for passenger services; the others being Regensburg Hauptbahnhof

Regensburg Hauptbahnhof

is the Hauptbahnhof for the city of Regensburg in southern Germany.- Location :Regensburg Hauptbahnhof is located on the southern edge of the old city in the immediate vicinity of Schloss St. Emmeram. In front of the station building are a taxi rank and the regional bus station. A short distance...

 and Regensburg-Burgweinting. It is located in the west of the city on Prüfeninger Schloßstrasse. In front of the station the track divides into the line to Nuremberg and the Danube Valley railway

Danube Valley Railway (Bavaria)

The Danube Valley Railway in Bavaria in southern Germany is the railway line that runs from Regensburg via Ingolstadt and Donauwörth to Ulm, just over the Bavarian border in Baden-Württemberg....

to Ingolstadt Hauptbahnhof

Ingolstadt Hauptbahnhof

is the Hauptbahnhof for the Bavarian city of Ingolstadt, situated in southern Germany.Ingolstadt station is an important junction in the net Deutsche Bahn network...

 and Ulm. This crosses the line to Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

 shortly after Prüfening station.

Regensburg-Prüfening has three platforms. To the south are platforms 1 and 2 to Nuremberg, and about 100 m north is platform 3 to Ingolstadt. Only Regionalbahn trains stop at the station, which is classified by the Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn

Deutsche Bahn AG is the German national railway company, a private joint stock company . Headquartered in Berlin, it came into existence in 1994 as the successor to the former state railways of Germany, the Deutsche Bundesbahn of West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn of East Germany...

 as a category 5

German railway station categories

About 5,400 railway stations in Germany that are owned and operated by the Deutsche Bahn subsidiary DB Station&Service are assigned into seven categories, denoting the service level available at the station....

 station. It has connections to Regensburg's city bus services which stop at the Rennplatz bus stop north of the station.

There are railway services to:

• Regensburg Hbf: two, hourly services (at weekends only every two hours)
• Ingolstadt Hbf: hourly (at weekends every two hours)
• Neumarkt (Oberpfalz)
  Neumarkt (Oberpfalz) station
  Neumarkt station , is the oldest and most important railway station in Neumarkt, Germany. It is classified by DB Station&Service as a category 3 station and is also Neumarkt's only long-distance stop....
  
  : hourly

External links

• There is a relevant English-language forum at Railways of Germany