Singen (Hohentwiel) station
Singen station is an important regional railway junction and interchange station in the town of Singen in the south of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Three railways now meet there, but in the past five railways connected to it. The station is served by InterCity trains on the Stuttgart–Zurich route and it is the end of line S22 of the Zurich S-Bahn.
Name
officially call the station Singen . Because of its size and its significance for the district of Konstanz, the station is sometimes referred to as Singen Hauptbahnhof locally. In addition, the abbreviations Singen , Singen and just Singen are used.Railway lines
Singen is the starting point of the Gäu Railway to Stuttgart. On this line, the city is a stop for InterCity services between Stuttgart, Singen, Schaffhausen and Zurich. In addition, trains on the Black Forest Railway, connecting Singen Offenburg and Konstanz stop in Singen. The Upper Rhine Railway provides connections to Basel.History
Singen owes its development from a farming village into industrial town primarily to its role as a railway junction. The railway reached the village for the first time in 1863, when the Upper Rhine Railway was completed from Basel to Konstanz. Ten years later, the Black Forest Railway was completed from Offenburg to Konstanz, connecting with the Upper Rhine Railway in Singen. The Etzwilen–Singen railway to Switzerland completed the main lines connecting with Singen.Large Swiss companies established their German branch factories in Singen, not least because of its good rail connection. The factory workers were now brought to work in Singen in great numbers by train. A local commuter railway, the Randen Railway, was built in 1912, but it was closed in 1966.
The railway used to be one of the largest employers in Singen. The first station building was soon replaced by a more solid building, which still stands with small changes. The goods yard, which formerly stood on the other side of the tracks with sidings connecting directly from the factories, soon became too small. Therefore, a new freight yard was built in 1927.
The section of the Upper Rhine Railway between Schaffhausen and Singen was electrified in 1989.
service called Singen
ICE trainsets 403 015 and 403 515 were given the name of Singen in Singen station on 7 June 2008.
Platforms
Operations
Singen has been part of the Verkehrsverbund Hegau-Bodensee since its inception in 1996.Long-distance services
Singen station is served by Intercity services at hourly intervals from Stuttgart via Singen and Schaffhausen to Zürich. Evert two hours, it is served by Swiss Federal Railways services hauled by Taurus locomotives of the Österreichische Bundesbahnen. In the other hour, it is served by Deutsche Bahn InterCity 2 services. From this there is a connection in Singen to an IC to Zurich, which also runs with SBB cars. Individual IC 2 services run from Singen to Konstanz instead of Zürich.Furthermore, on weekends two pairs of Inter City services, operating as the Bodensee, connect Konstanz with Dortmund, Emden and Norddeich Mole.
A pair of IC services called Schwarzwald was operated from Hamburg to Konstanz, replacing one of the hourly cycle of regional services, until its discontinuation in December 2014 and it was then replaced by another regional train between Offenburg and Konstanz.
| Line | Route | Frequency |
| Emden – Münster – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Offenburg – Villingen - Singen – Radolfzell – Konstanz | Two train pairs on the weekend | |
| Stuttgart – Horb – Rottweil – Tuttlingen – Singen – Schaffhausen – Zürich | Hourly |
Regional services
In regional transport, Interregio-Express and Regional-Express services stop in Singen, giving through connections to Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Basel, Konstanz and Ulm via Friedrichshafen.A Regionalbahn service connects Singen with Schaffhausen. Offset by half hour, line S22 of the Zurich S-Bahn runs between Singen and Schaffhausen. This service runs from Schaffhausen towards Jestetten.
The Seehas, an S-Bahn-like transport service, connects Singen to, among other places, Engen as well as Radolfzell, Konstanz and other municipalities on Lake Constance.
| Line | Route | Frequency |
| IRE | Basel Bad Bf – Rheinfelden – Bad Säckingen – Waldshut – Schaffhausen – Singen – Radolfzell – Friedrichshafen Stadt – Ulm Hbf | Hourly Every 2 hours to Ulm and on weekends |
| IRE | Basel Bad Bf – Rheinfelden – Bad Säckingen – Waldshut – Schaffhausen – Singen – Radolfzell – Konstanz | One train pair on weekends |
| RE | Karlsruhe Hbf – Baden-Baden – Achern – Offenburg – Villingen – Singen – Radolfzell – Konstanz | Hourly |
| RE | Stuttgart Hbf – Böblingen – Herrenberg – Eutingen im Gäu – Horb – Rottweil – Tuttlingen – Singen | Every 2 hours |
| RB | Schaffhausen – Thayngen – Gottmadingen – Singen | Hourly |
| RB | Gottmadingen – Singen | One pair of trains during school hours |
| RB | Radolfzell – Überlingen – Friedrichshafen Stadt | Individual trains in the early morning hours |
| R | Seehas Engen – Mühlhausen – Singen – Radolfzell – Allensbach – Konstanz | Every 30 minutes |