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Following the opening of the
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The terminal station in Traben-Trarbach with its many freight tracks was closed many years ago, after the rationalisation of freight transport, and replaced by a new station two hundred metres to the north. In its place there is now a large bus station and a shopping centre.
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Freight traffic was never of great importance and it was closed many years ago. It consisted mainly of general freight, wine (in tank cars) and agricultural products and supplies to and from the depot of the
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railway station of Bullay and runs for its entire length in the river valley. Trains on the line leave Bullay station at first running on the
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