Hinterweidenthal Ost station

Since the station was only built during the construction of the Wieslauter Railway, the entrance building differs stylistically from its counterparts at the other stations between Landau and Zweibrücken. It is side-gabled relative to the tracks and has a mansard roof as well as four dormer windows on the trackside.^[4] Already during its construction, it received a pedestrian subway, which still exists today despite the dismantling of most of the tracks.^[20]

The station had two signal boxes, one in the eastern part of the station and one in the west. Meanwhile, they have been taken out of use.^[21] Since the 1990s, the signalling at the station has been controlled from Hinterweidenthal station, two kilometres west on the line from Landau to Rohrbach by means of a relay interlocking of the Sp Dr S60 class.^[20][4][22]

The station initially had a total of six tracks. Among them were an overtaking track and four sidings.^[20][4] As a result of the abandonment of freight traffic in the mid-1990s, four of the six tracks were subsequently dismantled.^[4][23] Previously, the station had been primarily used to store freight wagons that were no longer required.^[15] Originally, it had semaphore signals, but these have been replaced by light signals.^[21]

Four train pairs were listed as running over the Wieslauter Railway each day in the first timetable.^[24] Due to its function as a railway junction, it was also a stop for express trains on the main line.^[6] In 1914, a pair of trains ran between Landau and Bundenthal-Rumbach, the predecessor of the later Bundenthaler excursion train. Moreover, in the morning a train continued to Munich and a through coach that had already run from Paris continued to Salzburg.^[8]

On weekends, the services offered by the Wieslauter Railway were generally somewhat greater in the following decades. The Bundenthaler started in Ludwigshafen in the 1930s.^[25] During the Second World War, services on the Wieslauter Railway were discontinued from time to time, since it was within the Roten (red) zone (the militarised zone near the French border).^[26] There were trains on the main line at that time that sometimes ran only between Landau and Hinterweidenthal or between Pirmasens Nord and Hinterweidenthal. In the 1950s, a train ran between Landau and Hinterweidenthal as an express, serving only the stations of Landau West, Albersweiler, Annweiler am Trifels and Wilgartswiesen. On the rest of its route, it served all stations.^[27] At the same time, the station and the other minor stations on the line were served by long-distance services on the Munich–Saarbrücken route. Local trains often stopped at the station for around ten minutes.^[28] As a curiosity, in the last years before its cessation, the Bundenthaler terminated, despite its name, in Dahn, where the passengers had to change to a train running to Bundenthal-Rumbach from Saarbrücken, also running only on Sundays.

In the first years after the reactivation of passenger services on the Wieslauter Railway on Sundays and public holidays in 1997, two pairs of trains operated, which were later increased to four.^[29] When the Bundenthaler was reactivated, it initially only operated from Neustadt. A few years later, its run was extended eastward to Mannheim. The train has since been divided in Hinterweidenthal Ost station; while one portion continues to Bundenthal-Rumbach, the other portion runs to Pirmasenser Hauptbahnhof.^[30] Trains of the Landau–Rohrbach railway only stop at the station at times when services run on the branch line.

A class I shunting locomotive was stationed in the station for freight operations before the Second World War. Since the station was assigned to the Saarbrücken railway division in 1971, the freight traffic was served from Pirmasens Nord, which meant that freight trains had to reverse at the station to run on the Wieslauter Railway. Previously, freight traffic was served from Landau. The only exceptions were the tanker trains to the Hinterweidenthal tank farm, which ran from Karlsruhe via Landau.^[13] From the end of the 1980s, the local railway was increasingly rarely served and freight trains now run only to Hinterweidenthal Ort.^[31]

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