Saarbrücken Central Station

Saarbrücken Central Station or Saarbrücken Hauptbahnhof is also called Eurobahnhof Saarbrucken, it’s the principal railway station in Saarbrücken. It’s also the largest station in Saarland. Around 10 million passengers use the station annually. The station is operated by DB Station&Service as a category 2 station, served by regional and long-distance trains.

TRAFFIC CONNEXIONS

LONG DISTANCE SERVICES

Since December 2007 Saarbrücken Central Station has been on the German high-speed railway network and an arrival and departure gateway for the cross-border ICE trains between Paris and Frankfurt. In addition, long-distance trains run to Dresden, Stuttgart and Salzburg.

Line	Route	Interval
ICE 16	Saarbrücken – Mannheim – Frankfurt – Erfurt – Halle (Saale) – Berlin Hbf – Berlin Gesundbrunnen	1 daily
ICE/TGV 82	Paris – Saarbrücken – Kaiserslautern – Mannheim – Frankfurt	5 daily
IC/EC 62	Saarbrücken – Homburg – Kaiserslautern – Mannheim – Stuttgart (– Munich – Salzburg – Graz)	2 daily

Long distance trains informations

LOCAL SERVICES

Saarbrücken Central Station is the main hub for regional railway services in the Saarland. With few exceptions, Saarland local services begin and terminate at Saarbrücken Hbf.

Route No.	Route	Frequency
RE 1	Saarbrücken–Völklingen-Saarlouis-Merzig-Trier-Koblenz	two-hourly
RE 3	Saarbrücken-Neunkirchen-Tükismühle-Mainz	hourly
RE 18	Saarbrücken–Forbach-Metz	hourly (with gaps)
RE 19	Saarbrücken–Sarreguemines-Strasbourg	single trains
RE 60	Saarbrücken–St. Ingbert-Homburg-Kaiserslautern	hourly
RB 68	Saarbrücken–St. Ingbert–Zweibrücken-Pirmasens	hourly
RB 70	Merzig (Saar)–Saarlouis–Saarbrücken Hbf–St. Ingbert–Homburg (Saar) Hbf–Kaiserslautern Hbf	hourly
RB 71	Trier Hbf–Merzig (Saar)–Saarlouis Hbf – Saarbrücken Hbf–Homburg (Saar) Hbf	hourly
RB 72	Saarbrücken–Illingen-Lebach-Jabach	hourly
RB 73	Saarbrücken–Neunkirchen–St.Wendel–(Türkismühle–Neubrücke/Nahe)	half-hourly/hourly
RB 76	Saarbrücken–Wemmetsweiler–Neunkirchen–Homburg	single trains

Local trains information

STADTBAHN SERVICES

The Saarbahn Stadtbahn lines of the Saarbrücken transport company Saarbahn GmbH run from the four tram platforms on the station forecourt.

Route No.	Route	Frequency
S 1	Hauptbahnhof-Rathaus-Römerkastell-Brebach	15 min.
S 1	Hauptbahnhof-Rathaus-Römerkastell-Brebach-Kleinblittersdorf	30 min.
S 1	Hauptbahnhof-Rathaus-Römerkastell-Brebach-Sarreguemines	30 min.
S 1	Hauptbahnhof-Rastpfuhl-Siedlerheim	15 min.
S 1	Hauptbahnhof-Rastpfuhl-Siedlerheim-Riegelsberg Süd	15 min.

Stadtbahn services informations

Trams run every 7.5 minutes on the inner city line between Brebach and Siedlerheim in both directions, every 15 minutes to Kleinblittersdorf and Riegelsberg-Süd and every 30 minutes to Sarreguemines

Formerly the Messe line used to occasionally run services to exhibitions or special events at the exhibition centre (Messezentrum) in Saarbrücken (the last occasion was German Catholic Day in 2006). Nowadays a part of the route has been decommissioned.