Müllheim (Baden) station is a small railway junction in Müllheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, where the Müllheim–Mulhouse railway branches off the Mannheim–Karlsruhe–Basel railway (Rhine Valley Railway). From 1896 to 1955, the station was the terminus of the tramway-like Müllheim-Badenweiler railway. Location Müllheim station is located on the southernmost portion of Rhine Valley Railway, about halfway between Freiburg and Basel. Its address is Bahnhofstrasse 1. History Opening of Müllheim station and the Rhine Valley Railway Müllheim station was opened on 1 June 1847, along with the Freiburg–Müllheim section of the Rhine Valley Railway, which connects Mannheim via Karlsruhe and Freiburg to Basel. About two weeks later, another section of the Rhine Valley Railway was opened to Schliengen and the whole line to Basel was finished in 1855. On 17 July 1911, there was a derailment in Müllheim station as a result of speeding through a construction site, which was subject to a speed restriction. There were 14 dead and 32 injured. The train driver had fallen asleep and the subsequent enquiry considered the effects of alcohol on driving for the first time in Germany. The Rhine Valley Railway was electrified through Müllheim station in 1955. Development of the railway junction Müllheim–Mulhouse railway In 1865, there were the first petitions by some of the neighbouring communities to the Grand Duchy of Baden for the building of a railway from Müllheim to Mulhouse. The Baden government published an act on 30 March 1872 for "the creation of a railway from Müllheim to Neuenburg and possibly continuing to Mulhouse." Work began on the line in late 1876. The railway was opened in February 1878 to supply the area around Mulhouse with food and timber from the area around Müllheim. The Neuenburg–Chalampé bridge over the Rhine was demolished on 12 October 1939 during the Second World War. Deutsche Reichsbahn rebuilt the bridge as a single track in 1940–1941. German troops destroyed it again during their retreat on 9 February 1945. The branch line from Müllheim to Neuenburg am Rhein was electrified by May 1965. From the summer of 1975 there were only four pairs of trains a day between Mulhouse and Müllheim Passenger services on the Müllheim–Neuenburg section were discontinued on 31 May 1980. However, the line remained open for freight traffic. In October 1998, the Breisgau S-Bahn operated a special train with a Regio-Shuttle. Feasibility studies in the spring of 2004 showed