Kusel station

Kusel station is the station of the town of Kusel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It was opened on 22 September 1868 as the terminus of the Landstuhl–Kusel railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. The station is located in the network area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) and it is in fare zone 770. The address of the station is Bahnhofstraße 65. With the completion of the Türkismühle–Kusel railway in November 1936, it became a through station. After the local through traffic had disappeared in the 1950s, the section between Kusel and Schwarzerden was shut down in 1970 and subsequently dismantled, making Kusel station a terminus again.LocationThe station is located on the eastern approach to the city. In the immediate vicinity there is a department store and the silo of a rural credit union (Raiffeisen). It has a public telephone, a parking area, a bus stop and a barrier-free entrance.RailwaysThe Kusel–Landstuhl railway comes from the east and follows the Kuselbach (brook) from Altenglan. From the Rammelsbach station it rises at a gradient of 1:133. From 1936 to 1970, it continued directly on to the link to Türkismühle, but through passenger services ended in 1951. The former line crossed the Kuselbach (brook) immediately after leaving the station and proceeded along its left (north) bank.