# Stuttgart-Rohr station

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**Rohr station** is located the chainage of 16.7 km (from [Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof](/source/Stuttgart_Hauptbahnhof) via the old route) on the [Stuttgart–Horb railway](/source/Stuttgart%E2%80%93Horb_railway) (German: *Gäubahn*) and is a station in the network of the [Stuttgart S-Bahn](/source/Stuttgart_S-Bahn).

## History

When the [Royal Württemberg State Railways](/source/Royal_W%C3%BCrttemberg_State_Railways) opened the Gäu Railway from Stuttgart to Freudenstadt in September 1879, many residents of Rohr saw only the drawbacks of the new system of transport. Some farmers had been dispossessed for the line and believed the railway would bring only noise and odours. But when industrialisation began in the neighbouring village of [Vaihingen](/source/Stuttgart-Vaihingen_station) and commuters from Rohr took advantage of its station, people learned of rail's advantages.

In 1906, Rohr station opened for passenger services. The station building was a one-story brick building with a waiting-room and station services on the former platform 1, which served the line towards [Böblingen](/source/B%C3%B6blingen).

The [line to Echterdingen](/source/Stuttgart-Rohr%E2%80%93Filderstadt_railway) has branched off 600 metres south of the station since October 1920. In 1935 the station was renamed *Rohr (b Stuttgart)*. A year later, on 1 October 1936 the community of Rohr was incorporation in the Vaihingen auf den Fildern. This led to a second name change to *Vaihingen-Rohr*. In 1942, Vaihingen was incorporated into Stuttgart and the name was changed to *Stuttgart-Rohr*.

From 1982, [Deutsche Bundesbahn](/source/Deutsche_Bundesbahn) began to upgrade the Gäu Railway to four tracks between the junction with the [Verbindungsbahn](/source/Verbindungsbahn_(Stuttgart)) (the underground section of the Stuttgart S-Bahn) and the branch to Echterdingen. This expansion was completed in 1984, leading to the demolition of the station building. The two outer platforms were replaced by a central platform.

## Operations

The station has an island platform, which has a passage down to Osterbronnstraße and is connected by an underpass to Egelhaafstraße. It is served by lines S 1, S 2 and S 3 of the [Stuttgart S-Bahn](/source/Stuttgart_S-Bahn).

Platform track 2 is served by S-Bahn trains towards [Böblingen](/source/B%C3%B6blingen_station) or [Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe](/source/Stuttgart_Flughafen/Messe_station) and track 3 is used by S-Bahn services to [Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof](/source/Stuttgart_Hauptbahnhof). Tracks 1 and 4 are used by non-stopping trains and have no platforms.

Rohr station is classified by [Deutsche Bahn](/source/Deutsche_Bahn) as a [category 4 station](/source/German_railway_station_categories).

### S-Bahn

Line Route Kirchheim (Teck) – Wendlingen – Plochingen – Esslingen – Neckarpark – Bad Cannstatt – Hauptbahnhof – Schwabstraße – Vaihingen – Rohr – Böblingen – Herrenberg (extra trains in the peak between Esslingen and Böblingen.) Schorndorf – Weinstadt – Waiblingen – Bad Cannstatt – Hauptbahnhof – Schwabstraße – Vaihingen – Rohr – Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe – Filderstadt (extra trains in the peak between Schorndorf and Vaihingen.) Backnang – Winnenden – Waiblingen – Bad Cannstatt – Hauptbahnhof – Vaihingen – Rohr – Flughafen/Messe (extra trains in the peak between Backnang and Vaihingen).

## Notes

1. ["Tarifzoneneinteilung"](https://www.vvs.de/download/Tarifzonenplan.pdf). [Verkehrs- und Tarifverbund Stuttgart](/source/Verkehrs-_und_Tarifverbund_Stuttgart). 1 April 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.

## References

- Christine Bührlen-Grabinger; Dagmar Kraus; Martin Zurowski (1993). *Vaihingen / Rohr / Büsnau und Dürrlewang. Aus der Geschichte eines Stadtbezirks* (in German). Stuttgart: Verlag Karl Scharr und WEGRAhistorik-Verlag. ISBN 3-929315-01-7.
- Andreas M. Räntzsch (1987). *Stuttgart und seine Eisenbahnen. Die Entwicklung des Eisenbahnwesens im Raum Stuttgart* (in German). Heidenheim: Verlag Uwe Siedentop. ISBN 3-925887-03-2.

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