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Bahnhof Göppingen

Bahnhof Göppingen is a station in the town of Göppingen in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is a transit station and is situated km 42.1 from Stuttgart on the Fils Valley Railway, which was completed in 1850 from Stuttgart to Ulm. The station was first opened in 1847 when  Filstalbahn (the Fils Valley Railway) reached Göppingen, the line was completed to Ulm in 1850. In 1893, plans for the extension of the main building was approved and then executed. Between 1914 and 1917, the station was expanded and rebuilt again to handle traffic on the new Hohenstaufen Railway to Schwäbisch Gmünd and the then projected Voralb Railway to Boll. During the Second World War an air raid shelter for 80 people was built in the station forecourt. In 1964 today's station building was opened on schedule after two years of construction. In the late 1960s, a new freight terminal building was built, but it is no longer used. The sprawling marshalling yard is now closed, although part of it near the station is used by industries. All the other industrial sidings are closed. Similarly, the container terminal, which in the first years of the 1970s was one of the most modern facilities of its kind, was closed down in the mid 1990s.

23rd August 2025

 
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