Singen (Hohentwiel) station

Deutsche Bahn officially call the station Singen (Hohentwiel). Because of its size and its significance for the district of Konstanz, the station is sometimes referred to as Singen Hauptbahnhof locally. In addition, the abbreviations Singen (Hohentw), Singen (Htw) and just Singen are used.

Singen is the starting point of the Gäu Railway (Gäubahn) to Stuttgart. On this line, the city is a stop for InterCity services between Stuttgart, Singen, Schaffhausen and Zurich. In addition, trains on the Black Forest Railway (Badische Schwarzwaldbahn), connecting Singen Offenburg and Konstanz stop in Singen. The High Rhine Railway (Hochrheinbahn) provides connections to Basel.

Singen owes its development from a farming village into industrial town primarily to its role as a railway junction. The railway reached the village for the first time in 1863, when the Upper Rhine Railway was completed from Basel to Konstanz (Constance). Ten years later, the Black Forest Railway was completed from Offenburg to Konstanz, connecting with the Upper Rhine Railway in Singen. The Etzwilen–Singen railway to Switzerland completed the main lines connecting with Singen.

Large Swiss companies established their German branch factories in Singen, not least because of its good rail connection. The factory workers were now brought to work in Singen in great numbers by train. A local commuter railway, the Randen Railway (Randenbahn), was built in 1912, but it was closed in 1966.

The railway used to be one of the largest employers in Singen. The first station building was soon replaced by a more solid building, which still stands with small changes. The goods yard, which formerly stood on the other side of the tracks with sidings connecting directly from the factories, soon became too small. Therefore, a new freight yard was built in 1927.

The section of the High Rhine Railway between Schaffhausen and Singen was electrified in 1989.

Intercity-Express service called Singen (Hohentwiel)

ICE trainsets 403 015 and 403 515 (ICE 3, class 403) were given the name of Singen (Hohentwiel) in Singen station on 7 June 2008.

Singen (Hohentwiel) has been part of the Verkehrsverbund Hegau-Bodensee (Hegau-Bodensee Transport Association, VHB) since its inception in 1996.

Long-distance services

Cisalpino service operated with a class ETR 470 set in Singen station (2004)

Singen station is served by Intercity services at hourly intervals from Stuttgart via Singen and Schaffhausen to Zürich. Evert two hours, it is served by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) services hauled by Taurus locomotives of the Österreichische Bundesbahnen (ÖBB). In the other hour, it is served by Deutsche Bahn InterCity 2 services. From this there is a connection in Singen to an IC to Zurich, which also runs with SBB cars. Individual IC 2 services run from Singen to Konstanz instead of Zürich.[4]

Furthermore, on weekends two pairs of Inter City services, operating as the Bodensee (Lake Constance), connect Konstanz with Dortmund, Emden and Norddeich Mole.[4]

A pair of IC services called Schwarzwald ("Black Forest") was operated from Hamburg to Konstanz, replacing one of the hourly cycle of regional services, until its discontinuation in December 2014 and it was then replaced by another regional train between Offenburg and Konstanz.

Line	Route	Frequency
IC 35	Emden – Münster (Westf) – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mannheim – Karlsruhe – Offenburg – Villingen (Schwarzw) - Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Konstanz	Two train pairs on the weekend
IC 87	(Frankfurt (Main) – Darmstadt – Heidelberg –) Stuttgart – Horb – Rottweil – Tuttlingen – Singen (Hohentwiel) (Konstanz/)– Schaffhausen – Zürich	Hourly

Regional services

Regionalbahn service to Schaffhausen in Singen station

In regional transport, Interregio-Express and Regional-Express services stop in Singen, giving through connections to Karlsruhe, Stuttgart, Basel, Konstanz and Ulm via Friedrichshafen.

A Regionalbahn service connects Singen with Schaffhausen. Offset by half hour, line S22 of the Zurich S-Bahn runs between Singen and Schaffhausen. This service runs from Schaffhausen towards Jestetten.

The Seehas (named after a mythical "lake hare"), an S-Bahn-like transport service, connects Singen to, among other places, Engen as well as Radolfzell, Konstanz and other municipalities on Lake Constance.

Line	Route	Frequency
IRE	Basel Bad Bf – Rheinfelden (Baden) – Bad Säckingen – Waldshut – Schaffhausen – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Friedrichshafen Stadt – Ulm Hbf	Hourly Every 2 hours to Ulm and on weekends
IRE	Basel Bad Bf – Rheinfelden (Baden) – Bad Säckingen – Waldshut – Schaffhausen – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Konstanz	One train pair on weekends
RE	Karlsruhe Hbf – Baden-Baden – Achern – Offenburg – Villingen (Schwarzw) – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Konstanz	Hourly
RE	Stuttgart Hbf – Böblingen – Herrenberg – Eutingen im Gäu – Horb – Rottweil – Tuttlingen – Singen (Hohentwiel)	Every 2 hours
RB	Schaffhausen – Thayngen – Gottmadingen – Singen (Hohentwiel)	Hourly
RB	Gottmadingen – Singen (Hohentwiel)	One pair of trains during school hours
RB	(Singen (Hohentwiel) –) Radolfzell – Überlingen – Friedrichshafen Stadt	Individual trains in the early morning hours
R	Seehas Engen – Mühlhausen (b Engen) – Singen (Hohentwiel) – Radolfzell – Allensbach – Konstanz	Every 30 minutes

• "Trackplan of Singen (Hohentwiel) station" (PDF). Retrieved 11 June 2016.