Lindau Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Lindau in the German state of Bavaria. It was called Lindau Stadt until 15 May 1936. It is the largest railway station in Lindau and its only long-distance traffic stop. In the urban area there is also Lindau-Aeschach station and Lindau-Reutin freight yard. Formerly there were also Lindau-Siebertsdorf, Lindau Langenweg, Lindau Strandbad, Schoenau, Oberreitnau and Rehlings.
Location
Lindau Hauptbahnhof is a railway terminus and lies on the island of Lindau in the immediate vicinity of Lindau harbour. The current station building, which is protected as a monument, was built between 1913 and 1921 in the Art Nouveau style. The station is about 500 metres long and is connected by a four-track line running over an embankment to the mainland. The embankment and the parallel Seebrücke road bridge, which is about 500 metres to the east, form the perimeter of the so-called Kleinen See, which lies between the suburb of Aeschach and the island. On the west side of the station there is a small marshalling yard and the former depot. Meanwhile, some workshops in the rear are still used for vehicle maintenance. The railway lines separate the districts of Hauptinsel from the Hinteren Insel. However, a pedestrian bridge and the Thiersch road bridge run above the tracks. As part of the Lindau 21 project, it is proposed that the terminal station be replaced by a through station on the mainland at Lindau-Reutin to simplify operations.
line 88 provides regular connections from Munich via Lindau to Zurich. In addition, a single pair of Intercity services run on German line 32 from Münster via Lindau to Innsbruck. EuroCity and Intercity trains change traction between electric and diesel locomotives in Lindau. Formerly, Express trains of the ÖBB ran from Lindau, including direct links to Vienna. Today Austrian long-distance trains mostly start in nearby Bregenz. Since December 2010, a daily service operated with Railjet rollingstock has run from Lindau. Initially it runs as a Regional-Express service to Bregenz with a stop in Lochau-Hörbranz. It runs as a Railjet service from Bregenz to Vienna.
Regional services
Regional services are operated from Lindau station by three companies in three different directions. DB Regio Allgäu-Schwaben runs towards Bavaria, DB ZugBus Regionalverkehr Alb-Bodensee runs towards Baden-Wurttemberg and ÖBB runs towards Austria. Interregio-Express trains run every two hours to and from Friedrichshafen bound for Ulm or Stuttgart. These are supplemented by hourly Regionalbahn services which operate to and from Friedrichshafen. Circulating to and from Hergatz among others are Arriva-Länderbahn-Express services to and from Munich and the Allgäu-Franken-Express to and from Nuremberg. Additionally a Regionalbahn service operates to and from Augsburg as well as individual Regional-Express services to and from Ulm via Kempten. The ÖBB operates Regional and Regional-Express services to Bludenz or St. Margrethen in Switzerland.
City buses
Bus routes 1 and 2 of Stadtbus Lindau operate from the station forecourt to all part of the city of Lindau.
