Weil am Rhein station is a small railway junction in Weil am Rhein in the German state of Baden-Württemberg on the German-Swiss border. The Weil am Rhein–Lörrach railway (known as the Gartenbahn—"Garden Railway") branches off the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway (Rhine Valley Railway) at the station. From 1878 to 1937, the station was the starting point of the Weil am Rhein–Saint-Louis line [de] to the French town of Saint-Louis.^[1]

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Weil am Rhein
The station platforms in 2019
General information
Location	Hauptstraße 339 Weil am Rhein, Baden-Württemberg Germany
Coordinates	47°35′38.303″N 7°36′30.308″E
Owned by	Deutsche Bahn
Line(s)	Rhine Valley Railway (KBS 702) Weil am Rhein–Lörrach line (KBS 734) Weil am Rhein–Saint-Louis line [de] (closed)
Distance	267.6 km (166.3 mi) from Mannheim Hauptbahnhof[1]
Platforms	3 island platforms 1 side platform
Tracks	6
Train operators	DB Fernverkehr DB Regio Baden-Württemberg SBB GmbH
Connections	Tram line 8 SWEG bus lines[2]
Other information
Station code	6606[3]
DS100 code	RW[1]
IBNR	80006606
Category	4[3]
Fare zone	3 (RVL [de])[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	20 February 1855 (1855-02-20)
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Müllheim (Baden) towards München Hbf ICE 60 Basel Bad Bf towards Basel SBB Preceding station DB Regio Baden-Württemberg Following station Müllheim (Baden) towards Karlsruhe Hbf RE 7 Basel Bad Bf Terminus Haltingen towards Emmendingen RB 27 Preceding station Basel trinational S-Bahn Following station Terminus S5 Weil am Rhein Gartenstadt towards Zell (Wiesental)
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The Rhine Valley Railway was completed in 1855 with the opening of the Haltingen–Basel section through Weil am Rhein. Weil am Rhein station was established at the same time.

The Weil am Rhine–Lörrach railway was opened on 20 May 1890 by the Grand Duchy of Baden State Railway as part of a strategic railway to bypass Switzerland. A railway line was had already been opened on 11 February 1878 between Weil am Rhein and Saint-Louis, providing a connection from Alsace (which had been captured from France in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870) to the far south of the German Empire.

The Basel-Weil marshalling yard was opened in 1913.

The Basel Badischer Bahnhof – Weil am Rhein – Efringen-Kirchen section of the Rhine Valley Railway and the whole of the Weil am Rhine–Lörrach railway were electrified in 1952.

The original station building was demolished in 1996.^[5]

The Weil am Rhine–Lörrach railway was included in the trinational Basel Regional S-Bahn as line S5 from the introduction of the 2004/2005 timetable on 12 December 2004. Services on the line have been operated since 15 June 2003 by SBB GmbH, the German subsidiary of the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB).

Since the timetable change in 2013/2014, SBB GmbH has operated a pair of trains on the Basel SBB – Weil am Rhein – Efringen-Kirchen route, closing an existing gap in the timetable to provide an hourly service.^[6][7]

Since the timetable change on 14 December 2014, Basel tram line 8 has run from its former terminus in Kleinhüningen via Friedlingen to Weil am Rhein station (Weil am Rhein Bahnhof/Zentrum tram stop).^[8]

Next to the passenger station is the now disused marshalling yard, which has been rebuilt as a container terminal.

Weil am Rhein station has an extensive system of tracks and platform facilities for passengers. Except for track 1 (next to the demolished station building), all tracks have an entry height of 76 centimetres (30 in), which provides reasonable access to the trains. Platform 1 has a step height of 55 centimetres (22 in), which provides barrier-free entry to the S-Bahn trains that begin and end there.^[9]

Between tracks 3 and 5 is track 4, which has no platform and is used for freight trains running through. Tracks 10 to 14, which also have no platforms, are abandoned; tracks 15 to 17 run to the Basel-Muttenz marshalling yard.

Weil am Rhein is located in the fare zone of the Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach (Regional transport association of Lörrach, RVL). Tarifverbund Nordwestschweiz (tariff association of north-west Switzerland, TNW) fares are honoured towards Basel. Toward Freiburg, Regio Verkehrsverbund Lörrach fares apply from Auggen.