The South Palatinate railway or Südpfalzbahn is a railway line in western Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 that runs from Landau

Landau

Landau or Landau in der Pfalz is an autonomous city surrounded by the Südliche Weinstraße district of southern Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a university town , a long-standing cultural centre, and a market and shopping town, surrounded by vineyards and wine-growing villages of the...

 via Pirmasens

Pirmasens

Pirmasens is a district-free city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France. It is famous for the manufacture of shoes. The surrounding rural district was called Pirmasens from 1818 until 1997, when it was renamed Südwestpfalz....

 and Zweibrücken

Zweibrücken

Zweibrücken is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river.- Name :Zweibrücken appears in Latin texts as Geminus Pons and Bipontum, in French texts as Deux-Ponts. The name derives from Middle High German Zweinbrücken...

 to Rohrbach

Rohrbach

Rohrbach can refer to:* Heidelberg-Rohrbach, a district of the city of Heidelberg in Germany* Rohrbach, Switzerland, in the canton of Bern*municipalities in Germany:**Rohrbach, Bavaria, in the district of Pfaffenhofen, Bavaria...

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Since 1994 the timetable for this line has been divided into route no. KBS 674 Schwarzbachtalbahn Pirmasens Nord-Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken

Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....

 and KBS 675 Queichtalbahn Landau (Pfalz)-Pirmasens Nord. From 1971 to 1992 it was listed in the timetable as KBS 680, and from 1992 as KBS 674. The section fron Biebermühle (since 1936 Pirmasens Nord)-Pirmasens (today the Biebermühl railway (Biebermühlbahn).

The line was opened for the first time along its entire length on 25 November by the Palatinate Railway

Palatinate Railway

The Palatinate Railway or Pfalzbahn was an early German railway company in the period of the German Empire prior to the First World War. It was formed on 1 January 1870, as the United Palatinate Railway based in Ludwigshafen, by the amalgamation of the following railway companies:*The Palatine...

 (Pfalzbahn). In 1888 the line was doubled. After the Second World War it reverted to a single track.

External links

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