Günzburg station

Gunzburg station is an important Swabian railway junction and the only station of the large district town of Günzburg in the German state of Bavaria. The town also has the Wasserburg (Günz) station on the Central Swabian Railway (German: Mittelschwabenbahn). The station has six platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.^[1] It is served daily by about 125 trains of Deutsche Bahn and Agilis. The Central Swabian Railway branches from the Ulm–Augsburg railway at Günzburg station.

Günzburg
Separation station
Street side of the entrance building
General information
Location	Günzburg, Bavaria Germany
Coordinates	48°27′37″N 10°16′43″E / 48.46018°N 10.27864°E / 48.46018; 10.27864
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Operated by	DB Netz DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Augsburg–Ulm (KBS 980) Günzburg–Mindelheim (KBS 978)
Platforms	6 (including 1 bay platform)
Other information
Station code	2422^[1]
DS100 code	MGZB^[2]
IBNR	8000139
Category	3^[1]
Website	stationsdatenbank.de www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	26 September 1853
Services Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Ulm Hbf towards Berlin Hbf or Hamburg-Altona ICE 11 Augsburg Hbf towards München Hbf Ulm Hbf One-way operation ICE 22 only ICE 771, 773 Ulm Hbf towards Essen Hbf ICE 42 only ICE 618, 619 Ulm Hbf towards Karlsruhe Hbf ICE 60 Ulm Hbf towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf ICE 62 Augsburg Hbf towards Klagenfurt Hbf Ulm Hbf towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf or Saarbrücken Hbf EC/RJ 62 Augsburg Hbf towards Graz Hbf Ulm Hbf towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf ICE/RJX 90 only RJX 63, 66 Augsburg Hbf towards Budapest Preceding station Following station Leipheim towards Ulm Hbf RE 9 Offingen towards München Hbf Preceding station DB Regio Bayern Following station Terminus RB 78 Wasserburg (Günz) towards Mindelheim Preceding station Following station Leipheim towards Ulm Hbf RB 15 Gundelfingen a. d. Donau towards Ingolstadt Hbf
Location
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Location

The station is located northwest of the town center of Günzburg. To its south is the station forecourt (Bahnhofplatz), through which Siemensstraße runs. To the West Auweg passes under the tracks through an underpass. Wiesweg runs to the north of the station. The station building is located south of the tracks and has the address of Bahnhofsplatz 5.

History

The station was opened together with the Neu-Ulm–Burgau section of the Bavarian Maximilian’s Railway (Bayerische Maximiliansbahn) on 26 September 1853. The whole Ulm–Munich route was finally completed on 1 May 1854. The Central Swabian Railway was completed from Günzburg to Krumbach in 1892 and it was extended to Mindelheim in 1910. From 2006 to 2009 the station was modernised at a cost of €8.3 million. The modernised station area was opened by the then Transport Minister, Wolfgang Tiefensee on 27 April 2009.

Infrastructure

 

Platforms

The station has five tracks next to three platforms. Attached to the “home” platform 1 (next to the station building) is a bay platform for trains to Mindelheim (platform 1a). All platforms are covered and have digital destination displays. The central platforms are connected to the main platform by a pedestrian tunnel and are equipped with lifts to make the platforms accessible.

Platform data

Platforms lengths and heights are as follows:^[3]

• Platform 1a: length 140 m, height 55 cm
• Platform 1: length 250 m, height 55 cm
• Platform 2: length 405 m, height 76 cm
• Platform 3: length 405 m, height 76 cm
• Platform 4: length 210 m, height 55 cm
• Platform 5: length 210 m, height 55 cm

Operations

Long distance services

Günzburg is served at two-hour intervals by InterCity and EuroCity trains on line 62 connecting Frankfurt and Salzburg. In addition a pair of Intercity-Express trains stop at Gunzburg. All other InterCity and Intercity-Express trains pass through the station without stopping.

Line	Route				Frequency
ICE 11	(Hamburg-Altona – Hamburg Hbf – Berlin Hbf – Leipzig Hbf – Erfurt Hbf – Frankfurt (Main) – Mannheim) – Stuttgart – Ulm – Günzburg – Augsburg – Munich				Some trains
ICE 22	Hamburg-Altona – Hannover – Kassel-Wilmhelmshöhe – Frankfurt (Main) – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Günzburg – Augsburg – Munich
ICE 42	(Dortmund) – Essen – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Frankfurt (Main) – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Günzburg – Augsburg – Munich				1 train pair
ICE 60	Karlsruhe – Stuttgart – Ulm – Günzburg – Augsburg – Munich				2 train pairs
ICE 62 / IC 62	Frankfurt – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Günzburg Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg (– Villach – Klagenfurt)				3 train pairs
EC/RJ 62	Frankfurt Hbf – Heidelberg –		Stuttgart – Ulm – Günzburg – Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg (– Graz)		1 train pair
	Saarbrücken – Mannheim –				1 train pair
ICE/RJX 90	Frankfurt (Main) – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart – Ulm – Günzburg – Augsburg – Munich – Salzburg – Wien – Budapest-Keleti				1 train pair

Regional services

Günzburg is served by the following regional services:

Line	Route		Frequency	Operator
RE 9	Fugger-Express: (Munich –) Augsburg – Günzburg – Neu-Ulm – Ulm		Hourly	Go-Ahead Bayern
	Ulm – Neu-Ulm – Günzburg – Dinkelscherben		Individual services	DB Regio AG
RB 78	(Ulm Hbf –) Günzburg – Krumbach (Schwaben) (– Mindelheim)		Hourly
RB 15	agilis-Regionalbahn: (Ulm – Neu-Ulm –) Günzburg – Donauwörth	(– Ingolstadt– Ingolstadt Nord)	Hourly Mon–Fri, every 2 hours Sat and Sun	Agilis Verkehrsgesellschaft
		(– Ingolstadt– Regensburg – Eggmühl – Neufahrn – Landshut)

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2013.