Wiesbaden Central Station (Wiesbaden Hauptbahnhof) is a railway station for the city of Wiesbaden, the state capital of the German state of Hesse. It is a terminal station at the southern edge of the city centre and is served by over 500 long-distance and regional trains and used by more than 30,000 travelers each day, so it is the second largest station in Hesse after Frankfurt Central Station. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station.
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