Darmstadt-Kranichstein train station
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 Platforms of the Kranichstein train station
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | FDK |
| IBNR | 8001380 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | June 1, 1874 |
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| City / municipality | Darmstadt |
| Place / district | Kranichstein |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 54 '24 " N , 8 ° 40' 46" E |
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Today, Darmstadt-Kranichstein station is primarily a local transport station of category 6 for the city of Darmstadt . It connects the Kranichstein district and the Darmstadt-Kranichstein Railway Museum to local public transport. Parts of the marshalling yard of the same name still exist. The railway museum emerged from its affiliated, former depot.
history
At the end of 1858 the eastern section of the Rhein-Main-Bahn was completed by the Hessische Ludwigsbahn-Gesellschaft (HLB) from Darmstadt to Aschaffenburg. Freight traffic began on November 15, 1858, and passenger traffic followed on December 25, 1858. Until 1874, there was no stopping point between Darmstadt and Messel.
Passenger traffic began on June 1, 1874, initially with two daily passenger trains in each direction.
After the construction of the so-called connecting line between the western and eastern sections of the railway line, a marshalling yard was built on the Kranichstein site to relieve the station facilities of the Ludwigsbahnhof in Darmstadt . Commissioning took place in 1898. The affiliated railway depot with the wagon maintenance department was closed in 1960 and the marshalling yard was shut down in 2002.
On May 22, 1937, the Kranichstein train station was renamed Darmstadt-Kranichstein .
Infrastructure
Together with the marshalling yard, a two-story entrance building was built in a classicist style, made of red sandstone. It replaced a smaller bus stop building. Around 1910, the central part of the building was raised by another storey. In 1979 the building was torn down and replaced with two shelters made of precast concrete. From the beginning of 2009 the platforms were raised and renewed.
The station has two platform tracks, although access to the track to Darmstadt (track 2) is only possible after crossing the opposite track in the direction of Dieburg (track 1).
The tracks on the opposite side of the entrance already belong to the marshalling yard.
Freight transport
In the past, the marshalling yard in Kranichstein was the most important marshalling yard in the Rhine-Main area after the stations Frankfurt (Main) Ost and Mainz-Bischofsheim . A few freight trains still stop there, for example to swap locomotives or to change personnel. The Mittelweserbahn has a secondary location in Kranichstein and from there regularly runs freight trains to the Aschaffenburg port .
passenger traffic
The tram stop for lines 4 and 5 is around 200 meters away. Darmstadt-Kranichstein train station is included in the tariff system of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).
train RB 75 Aschaffenburg Hbf - Babenhausen (Hess) - Dieburg - Darmstadt Nord - Darmstadt Hbf - Weiterstadt - Groß Gerau - Mainz-Bischofsheim - Mainz Hbf - Wiesbaden Hbf
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| Darmstadt North |
 RB 75 Rhein-Main-Bahn |
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Trams
- Line 4: Kranichstein Bahnhof - Luisenplatz - Griesheim Platz Bar-Le-Duc
- Line 5: Kranichstein Bahnhof - Luisenplatz - Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof
Individual evidence
- ↑ PDF file with a report on the Darmstadt-Kranichstein Railway Museum ( memento of the original from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Digitized version of the summer timetable 1874 in the Darmstädter Zeitung of May 31, 1874
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Loeckel: Darmstadt and its railways . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88255-232-4 , p. 31
- ↑ Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion Mainz of April 30, 1937, No. 24. Announcement No. 276, p. 137.
