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Renningen Renningen () is a town in the district of Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated 18 km west of Stuttgart. Geography Renningen is located in the west of Stuttgart, between Leonberg and Weil der Stadt on the fringes of th ...
in the German state of
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. It is at the junction of the
Rankbach Railway The Rankbach Railway () is a 14.253 km long single-track railway line from Renningen station, Renningen to Böblingen station, Böblingen in the southwestern region of Stuttgart in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The line is named afte ...
() and the Württemberg Black Forest Railway (''Schwarzwaldbahn''). It is a station on the
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network.


History

From 1865 onwards Renningen was expecting a rail connection to be built to it, but the
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was only able to build the Black Forest Railway in stages. The
Ditzingen Ditzingen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Ditzenge'') is a town in the Ludwigsburg (district), district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located approximately 10 km northwest of Stuttgart, and 12 km southwest of Ludwigs ...
Weil der Stadt Weil der Stadt () is a town of about 19,000 inhabitants in the Stuttgart Region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is about west of Stuttgart city centre, in the valley of the River Würm, and is often called the "Gate to the Black Fo ...
section was opened on 1 December 1869. The station was about one kilometre north of the location of the village at that time. The present ''Bahnhofstraße'' was a dirt road that ran through marshes and fields to the new railway, which was widened just before the line opened. Carters however used the road to
Rutesheim Rutesheim () is a town located in the district of Böblingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Location Rutesheim is situated directly to the Highway 8 (Bundesautobahn 8), from the town Leonberg, from the city Stuttgart and just from Stuttgart Air ...
and left it, where it was closest to the station. There, the municipality built a straight paved road (now called ''Alte Bahnhofstraße'', “Old Station Street”) to connect with the station. In 1913, the State Railways began building the Rankbach Railway as part of a freight bypass around the Stuttgart basin. It ran between
Böblingen Böblingen (; ) is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, seat of Böblingen (district), Böblingen District. Sindelfingen and Böblingen are Geographic contiguity, contiguous. History Böblingen was founded by Count Wilhelm von Tübingen-Bö ...
and Renningen, creating a connection between the
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and the Black Forest Railway. It was opened on 23 December 1914 from Böblingen to Sindelfingen and on 1 October 1915 to Renningen. In 1913, a plan was submitted for a line called the Platten Railway (''Plattenbahn'') from Renningen via
Friolzheim Friolzheim is a municipality of the Enz district in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Friolzheimer Riese telecommunications tower was located here. History The village of Friolzheim gradually became a possession of the in the 15th century, b ...
to
Mühlacker Mühlacker is a town in the eastern part of the Enz (district), Enz district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Mühlacker station has direct rail connections with Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, Pforzheim and the Northern Black Forest. Mühlhau ...
, but it was not supported by the State Railways and was never built. After the
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and the subsequent economic crisis had been overcome, there was support for the establishment of passenger service on the Rankbach line. Many people in Renningen and Malmsheim found a new job at the
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(Daimler-Benz from 1926) plant in Sindelfingen. The line was also used to travel to schools in Sindelfingen and Böblingen. Nevertheless, services were limited. The councils of Renningen and Malmsheim unsuccessfully asked the Railway Administration in Stuttgart for improvements to services. A
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airfield was opened in 1937 at Malmsheim, north of Renningen, with its own railway siding for supplies. The junction was northeast of the station. On 9 March 1939, the Black Forest Railway duplication was completed between Leonberg and Renningen. On 18 December 1939 electric train operations commenced between
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and
Weil der Stadt Weil der Stadt () is a town of about 19,000 inhabitants in the Stuttgart Region of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is about west of Stuttgart city centre, in the valley of the River Würm, and is often called the "Gate to the Black Fo ...
. After the
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, the numbers of passengers between Renningen and Böblingen declined with the increase in car ownership. On 29 September 1970 passenger operations between Renningen and Sindelfingen were abandoned. At the beginning of the 21st century there was growing support for an S-Bahn service between Renningen and Böblingen. The planned S-Bahn line S 60 should have been available for commuters in 2006, but cost increases and the need for extensive modifications delayed the reopening of passenger services. Since June 2010 line S 60 has run between Böblingen and Maichingen and it was extended to Renningen in December 2012.


Operations

Stuttgart S-Bahn lines S 6 and S 60 services operate at the station. Platform track 1, next to the station building, is not used any more for services. Instead it is used for non-stopping trains running towards Leonberg. S-Bahn services towards Leonberg stop on track 2 and services towards Weil der Stadt and Böblingen stop on track 3. Renningen station is classified by
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as a category 4 station.


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* * * {{Stuttgart S-Bahn Stuttgart S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg Railway stations in Germany opened in 1869 19th-century establishments in Württemberg