Rohr station is located the chainage of 16.7 km (from

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via the old route) on the Gäu Railway (german: Gäubahn) and is a station in the network of the

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History

When the

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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 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

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. The line to Echterdingen 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,

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began to upgrade the Gäu Railway to four tracks between the junction with the Verbindungsbahn (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

. Platform track 2 is served by S-Bahn trains towards

or Stuttgart Flughafen/Messe and track 3 is used by S-Bahn services to

. Tracks 1 and 4 are used by non-stopping trains and have no platforms. Rohr station is classified by

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History

Operations

S-Bahn

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