Ingolstadt Nord station
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Bavaria
Bavaria, formally the Free State of Bavaria is a state of Germany, located in the southeast of Germany. With an area of , it is the largest state by area, forming almost 20% of the total land area of Germany...
in southern 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...
, besides 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...
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The station is entered in the official list of Deutsche Bahn station abbreviations as MIN and is classed as a level 5 station (local halt or Nahverkehrssystemhalt) in their station categorisation system
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....
. The station is overseen by the station management at Rosenheim.
Operationals importance
The new high-speed railway from Ingolstadt to Nuremberg branches off the old MunichMunich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
–Ingolstadt–Treuchtlingen
Treuchtlingen
Treuchtlingen is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.-Geography:Treuchtlingen is situated on the river Altmühl, 9 km southwest of Weißenburg in Bayern, and 45 km northeast of Donauwörth...
(timetable no. KBS 990). The high-speed tracks begin turning out even within the station limits in order to run into the Audi Tunnel
Audi Tunnel
The Audi Tunnel is a twin-tracked railway tunnel on the Nuremberg–Ingolstadt–Munich high-speed railway just north of Ingolstadt in Bavaria, Germany. It lies just outside Ingolstadt Nord station and passes under part of the Audi car factory site as well as other industrial and residential areas...
which is immediately next to the station. There is also a heavily used goods siding which branches off to the refineries that are located in the eastern part of the city.
Passenger services
The Nordbahnhof is only served by regional train services: the RegionalexpressRegionalExpress
The term Regional-Express denotes a type of regional train in Germany and Austria .It is best compared to a semi-fast train, as it calls at fewer stations than Regionalbahn or S-Bahn trains, but stops more often than InterCity services...
(RE) and Regionalbahn
RegionalBahn
The Regionalbahn is a type of local passenger train in Germany.-Service:Regionalbahn trains usually call at all stations on a given line, with the exception of RB trains within S-Bahn networks, these may only call at selected stations...
(RB) trains. Intercity-Express (ICE) and InterCity
Intercity (Deutsche Bahn)
Intercity is the second-highest train classification in Germany, after the ICE. Intercity services are loco-hauled express services, usually over long-distances. There are Intercity routes throughout Germany, and routes generally operate with a two-hour frequency, with multiple routes giving a more...
(IC) trains pass through without stopping. A summary of passenger services at the station is shown in the table below:
| Train type Train categories in Europe Railway companies in Europe assign their trains to different categories or train types depending on their role. Passenger trains may be broadly split into long-distance and local trains; the latter having average journey times of under an hour and a range of less than 50 kilometres. Goods trains... | Route | Frequency | |
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| RegionalExpress (Munich-Nuremberg Express München-Nürnberg-Express The München-Nürnberg-Express is a RegionalExpress train service in the southern German state of Bavaria, connecting the two main cities of the state, Munich and Nuremberg. With its maximum speed of 200 km/h , the train is currently the fastest regional train service in Germany... ) |
Munich–Ingolstadt Hbf–Ingolstadt Nord–Kinding Kinding Kinding is a municipality in the district of Eichstätt in Bavaria in Germany.... –Allersberg Allersberg Allersberg is a municipality in the district of Roth, in Bavaria, Germany.... –Nuremberg |
Every two hours |
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| RegionalExpress |
Munich–Pfaffenhofen Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm is a municipality in Bavaria, Germany, capital of the district Pfaffenhofen. It is located on the river Ilm, and had a population of 23,282 in 2004.Composer Ralf Yusuf Gawlick was born here in 1969.... –Ingolstadt Hbf–Ingolstadt Nord–Eichstätt Eichstätt Eichstätt is a town in the federal state of Bavaria, Germany, and capital of the District of Eichstätt. It is located along the Altmühl River, at , and had a population of 13,078 in 2002. It is home to the Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, the lone Catholic university in Germany. The... –Treuchtlingen Treuchtlingen Treuchtlingen is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany.-Geography:Treuchtlingen is situated on the river Altmühl, 9 km southwest of Weißenburg in Bayern, and 45 km northeast of Donauwörth... –Nuremberg |
Every two hours Interleaved with the route below to provide hourly trains |
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| RegionalBahn | Munich–Pfaffenhofen–Ingolstadt Hbf–Ingolstadt Nord–Eichstätt–Treuchtlingen | Every two hours Interleaved with the route above to provide hourly trains |
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Because the Nordbahnhof, unlike the Hauptbahnhof, is located close to the town centre and not far from the Audi
Audi
Audi AG is a German automobile manufacturer, from supermini to crossover SUVs in various body styles and price ranges that are marketed under the Audi brand , positioned as the premium brand within the Volkswagen Group....
factory, it is used particularly by schoolchildren, students and Audi employees travelling to and from the area.
Goods traffic
Goods traffic plays a major role at Ingolstadt Nord. Numerous goods trains arrive with manufacturing parts for the Audi factory. These trains are detached in the station and shunted into the car manufacturer’s industrial sidings. The factory has an extensive set of tracks that are busy around the clock.In Ingolstadt Nord there is also a branch line, several kilometres long, that is still used by goods traffic. This splits again at the edge of the town into various goods sidings leading to two oil refineries and the InterPark industrial estate.
Infrastructure
The station has an extensive track system which includes five tracks with platforms (nos. 3 to 7) and which are used by passenger trains. Tracks 4 and 5 belong to the new high-speed route and only trains of the Munich-Nuremberg ExpressMünchen-Nürnberg-Express
The München-Nürnberg-Express is a RegionalExpress train service in the southern German state of Bavaria, connecting the two main cities of the state, Munich and Nuremberg. With its maximum speed of 200 km/h , the train is currently the fastest regional train service in Germany...
stop here. All platforms have a height of 76 cm. Tracks 3, 6 and 7 are 270 m long; tracks 4 and 5 are only 170 m long. All platforms have lifts; platforms 4 and 5 are only partly suitable for wheelchairs due to their steep slopes. Apart from 3 ticket machines, two snack vending machines and a toilet block there are no services at the station.
The station building, dating from 1869/1870, and the station forecourt are currently (2007) in poor structural condition. In the near future, however, a conversion is planned which should see the town of Ingolstadt purchasing the station building from 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...
, and converting it into a cultural centre. However there are no firm plans yet. In addition, there is a plan to build a multi-storey car park
Multi-storey car park
A multi-storey car-park is a building designed specifically to be for car parking and where there are a number of floors or levels on which parking takes place...
with 290 bays and an integrated kiosk, which will greatly improve the parking situation for travellers. It was announced that the necessary real estate would be bought in September or October 2007 and that work would begin in spring 2008.