The first section of the 50-km Schifferstadt-Worth railway opened in 1847, and runs through woods into the city of Speyer (housing the Speyer Hauptbahnof railway station, the more important of two stations in Speyer), where it curves to the southwest and runs straight through Romberg.
A few hundred metres after a junction with part of the former HeidelbergSpeyer railway that is still used as an industrial railway, the line curves to the south. 
