The station was opened on 15 July 1858 as
Bingerbrück station along with the first section of the Nahe Valley Railway. On the opposite side of the Nahe river was
Bingen (now
Bingen Stadt) station on the left bank section of the
Hessian Ludwig Railway (
Hessische Ludwigsbahn). of Annaius Daverzus in museum Römerhalle in Bad Kreuznach. During the construction of the main railway station a Roman
necropolis was discovered, revealing numerous tombstones of Roman military and civil
auxilia. The tombstone of Annaius, a member of the
cohors IV Delmatarum, shows a detailed aspect of Roman weapons and clothing dating back to the first half of the 1st century. On 17 October 1859, both stations were connected by a bridge. Bingerbrück station therefore became a border station on the former border between the
Kingdom of Prussia and the
Grand Duchy of Hesse. On 15 December 1859, the Koblenz–Bingerbrück section of the left bank was opened by
Rhenish Railway Company (
Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). In order to improve the carriage of freight from the Saar region to the region of
Wiesbaden and
Frankfurt, the Rhine-Nahe Railway (
Rhein-Nahe-Eisenbahn, the owner of the Nahe Valley Railway) and the
Nassau State Railway (
Nassauische Staatsbahn) decided to set up the
Bingerbrück–Rüdesheim train ferry for freight wagons. This ferry went into operation on the Rhine between Bingerbrück and
Rüdesheim on 1 September 1862. In 1900, operations were discontinued and some years later it replaced by the
Hindenburg Bridge. This railway bridge, connecting Bingerbrück and Rudesheim, was built in the years 1913 to 1915 and destroyed during the Second World War. Since then there has been no way for trains to cross the Rhine near Bingen. In 1960,
Deutsche Bundesbahn built a wagon repair shed in the area of the former Bingerbrück harbour. The 3,000 square-metre shed was crossed by three parallel tracks, which were connected at both ends to the rail network. The wagon repair shed was closed after 18 years, in 1978, as a result of the centralisation of maintenance. Since the municipal reform of 1969, Bingerbrück has been part of the town of Bingen am Rhein. Since then Bingen has had several stations. Because the Nahe Valley Railway connects with the West Rhine line at Bingerbrück and the station is also a stop for long-distance services, it is the most important station in the town of Bingen. For this reason, Bingerbrück station was renamed
Bingen (Rhein) Hauptbahnhof in 1993. The station's three signal boxes of
Bingerbrück Ostturm (
Bot),
Bingerbrück Kreuzbach (
Bkb) and
Bingerbrück Westturm (
Bwt) and the nearby
Bnb signal box at Bingen Stadt were decommissioned on 3 February 1996 and replaced by the central interlocking
Bf on the railway bridge at Bingen Hbf. The
mechanical interlocking of
Bingerbrück Ostturm was built in 1920 and was responsible for setting the points and signals on the Rhine line and for shunting towards Mainz. The Hauptbahnhof was remodelled for the Rhineland-Palatinate State Garden Show (
Rheinland-pfälzischen Landesgartenschau), which took place in Bingen in 2008. The disused marshalling and freight yards, which covered an area of 150,000 square metres and had two
humps, were removed and the site was integrated into the Garden Show. In addition, the
Bingerbrück Ostturm signal box, which was abandoned in 1996, was renovated for the show and converted into a museum. In addition, an extra bridge, which was equipped with lifts and led to the area of the garden show, was established to provide barrier-free access for the disabled from the station's platforms to the garden show. ==Signal box==