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Filderstadt station is the end point of the railway from Stuttgart-Rohr. Line S 2 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn terminates here.HistoryIn 1891 the Filder Railway Company (Filderbahn-Gesellschaft) planned a new railway from Möhringen to Echterdingen. At the same time a local railway (Lokalbahn) committee was established, with participants from Neuhausen, Bernhausen, Obersielmingen, Untersielmingen and Denkendorf, which supported an extension from Echterdingen to Zell am Neckar. It persisted but without success. Instead, the State government approved the establishment of the metre gauge Möhringen-Neuhausen line on 14 April 1896. It was formally inaugurated on 23 December 1897 and regular operations began on the following day.Bernhausen station was built south of the village. The station building, which still stands, is a Württemberg station of type IIIa, slightly adapted by the Filder Railway. The building housed waiting rooms, station services and residential rooms. The freight shed does not exist anymore. This loaded the produce of the Briem cabbages factory and the mainly white cabbages of local farmers. The line was regauged to standard gauge on 1 November 1902. In 1903 a Sunday service commenced when the Swabian Albverein (hiking club) opened a new observation tower on the Uhlberg, south of Plattenhardt.
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