Albshausen station
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 Albshausen station June 2019
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | FALS |
| IBNR | 8000471 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | January 10, 1863 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Albshausen |
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| City / municipality | Solms |
| Place / district | Albshausen |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 32 '45 " N , 8 ° 26' 9" E |
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The Albshausen station is a through station at the route kilometer 5,462 of the Lahntalbahn and is located in the tariff area of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV). It is located north of the Albshausen district of the Central Hessian town of Solms and is only a few meters from the Lahn River. The Solmsbachtalbahn to Grävenwiesbach used to branch off here .
history
The station was opened on January 10, 1863 with the completion of the third construction phase of the Lahn Valley Railway. In 1908 a 3 km long cable car was built from the nearby Fortuna mine to the train station. The ore extracted there was transported by train to the blast furnaces in the Ruhr area. By 1962, the mining railway of the Laubach ore mine at the southern end of the village ended at the station, and the Schlagkatz open-cast mine in Oberbiel , which was closed in 1921, also used the station as a transshipment point. From 1912 on, the Solmsbachtalbahn branched off at Albshausen station in the direction of Grävenwiesbach via Brandoberndorf . Passenger traffic was there from November 1, 1912 to May 31, 1985. On May 28, 1988, freight traffic was also stopped. The route was largely dismantled.
Location / transport links
The Albshausen train station is on the northern outskirts of the village of the same name. The former station building stood on the northern side of the Lahntalbahn, facing away from the town, on Bahnhofstraße, which is why the platforms can still be accessed from this side. At the former location of the reception building and the former loading ramp , a few P + R parking spaces have been created. The county road 828 crosses the railway facilities in the western end of the station, the bus station ''s up to her in the immediate vicinity' Solms-Albshausen station ''.
Railway systems
Reception building
No source has yet been found about the condition of a reception building up to 1912. The last station building of the Albshausen station was on the northern side of the railway facilities on the main track Wetzlar - Limburg of the Lahntalbahn. It was built around 1912 in connection with the opening of the Solmsbach Valley Railway. The exact time of the demolition, which took place before 1990, has not yet been determined. The station building temporarily housed a railway telegraph office .
Tracks
Albshausen train station now has five tracks , three of which are on platforms . Since the Einbingung in the signal box in Wetzlar the tracks in official documents bearing the numbers 500 to 504, with the count starts in Albshausen against the rule with the most distant from the former station building track. The tracks of the Lahntalbahn have the numbers 503 (direction Wetzlar) and 504 (direction Limburg). Track 1 (officially 504), known for customers on the platform, is on the house platform , tracks 2 (503) and 3 (502) on a central platform that can be reached through a non- barrier-free underpass . (However, track 3 is not provided with a number on the platform.) There is another passing track (501) and a siding (500) on both sides . Although in the meantime blocked all tracks except the two track rails and were no longer passable, in August 2016, the six lying in the two main tracks were turnouts renewed and thus made the plant again passable. Only the siding has been closed since then.
At the time of its greatest expansion, the station had nine adjacent tracks, four of which were used for train journeys: Tracks 1 and 2 were the main tracks of the Lahn Valley Railway. The second platform track on the central platform was track 4, as number 3 was reserved for a siding in the eastern area of the station that was connected to track 4 on both sides. Further on the track side opposite the station building was freight train track 5, which can be used in all directions, as well as siding 6. Track 7 was the pull-out track at the eastern head of the station. North of track 1 on the side of the reception building were tracks 8 to 14, with tracks 8 ( installation track ), 9 ( loading track ) and 10 (short head ramp track ) being in the area of the local freight facility, tracks 12 (eastern continuation of track 8) to 14 in the area of ore loading systems. Track number 11 was not assigned.
A head and side ramp as well as a 40-t weighbridge were used to handle freight traffic.
Signal boxes
With the commissioning of the relay interlocking “Wf” in the neighboring Wetzlar station in April 1986, the Albshausen station was integrated into it as a remote control area. Up to this point in time, the railway systems were operated by two mechanical signal boxes that were put into operation in 1912 .
business
train
Regional trains on the Limburg (Lahn) - Weilburg - Wetzlar - Gießen route (sometimes further to Alsfeld / Fulda ) stop every hour at Albshausen station . The operator until December 2011 was Deutsche Bahn AG . Since the 2011/2012 timetable change on December 11, 2011, the RB services on this section of the Lahntalbahn have been carried out by Hessische Landesbahn GmbH . Alstom Coradia Lint 41 (DB class 648) railcars are used for this . The DB Regional Express trains (RE 25) pass through the station without stopping. For the RE services, railcars of the type Alstom Coradia Lint 27 and Lint 41 (series 640 and 648) as well as Bombardier Talent (series 643) are used.
| line | route | Clock frequency |
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Lahn valley railway Limburg (Lahn) - Weilburg - Albshausen - Wetzlar - Gießen (- Grünberg (Oberhess) - Mücke (Hess) - Alsfeld (Oberhess) - Fulda ) |
Hourly (+ individual reinforcement trains at rush hour) |
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| Solms (Lahn) |
 RB 45 Lahntalbahn |
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bus
Line 185 connects the Albshausen train station with Braunfels (stop Braunfels Europaplatz ) and Wetzlar (stop Wetzlar bus station , directly at Wetzlar train station ). The line runs every half hour on weekdays , every quarter of an hour during rush hour, and only every two hours on weekends.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 279, p. 1051
Web links
- Picture of the Albshausen train station with signal box 1980
- Albshausen station on weiltalbahn.de
- Albshausen station on lahnbahn.de, with historical photos of the ore loading systems, accessed on May 31, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ center reception building according Ivl / LVB plan of the German Federal Railroad in 1976
- ↑ Hesse monument protection: Fortuna mine
- ↑ History of the Fortuna mine , accessed on October 8, 2011
- ^ Monument protection Hessen: Laubach mine
- ↑ buderus.de: Schlagplatz open-cast mine , accessed on October 8, 2011
- ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hesse, p. 1051
- ↑ The station building is no longer included in a plan from this time.
- ↑ http://bf-s.zielbahnhof.de/albshausen.htm , accessed on May 31, 2019
- ↑ Photo of the eastern exit with blocked route from 2013, accessed on June 01, 2019
- ↑ Is the station waking up again? - Wetzlar region - Mittelhessen.de. Retrieved August 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Ivl / Lvb plan of the Deutsche Bundesbahn from 1976
- ↑ Albshausen station on weiltalbahn.de, accessed on June 1, 2019
- ↑ List of German signal boxes , accessed on October 8, 2011
- ↑ Million program for 93 train stations ( memento of the original dated August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: HR online, accessed October 8, 2011
