Hungen train station
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 Tracks and station building in September 2010
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | FHUN |
| IBNR | 8000400 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | December 29, 1869 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Hunger |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Hunger |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 28 '41 " N , 8 ° 53' 34" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 134 m |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Hungen train station is the train station of the central Hessian town of Hungen in the district of Gießen . It lies on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway ( Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn ). From June 1, 1890 to April 4, 2003, the Friedberg – Mücke ( Horlofftalbahn ) railway branched off to Mücke via Laubach or to Friedberg via Wölfersheim and Beienheim .
history
When the first Gießen – Hungen section was opened on December 29, 1869, the Hungen train station also went into operation. When the Lahn-Kinzig Railway was extended to Nidda station on June 29, 1870 , Hungen became a through station.
On June 1, 1890, the Hungen – Laubach section of the Horlofftalbahn was opened, and on October 1, 1897, the Friedberg – Hungen section. From November 1, 1903, the entire route from Friedberg to Mücke could be used continuously, so that the station became the junction of the Lahn-Kinzig Railway and the Horlofftal Railway. On May 31, 1959, passenger traffic was stopped on the Hungen – Laubach section, and finally goods traffic on December 31, 1997. In 1999 the section was closed. The tracks were torn down around 2007. In the spring of 2010, a cycle path was built on the former railway line in the Hungen district.
Passenger traffic on the Wölfersheim-Södel-Hungen section was suspended on April 4, 2003. Freight traffic was stopped on December 31, 1997.
Railway systems
Reception building
The station building was built in 1869 with the opening of the line to Hungen, a first extension to the west obviously took place in 1870, the outbuildings and sheds to the east were also built in 1870 and 1897. The listed entrance building is owned by the city of Hungen and should be completely renovated in 2012. This refurbishment of the reception building was completed in 2014.
Tracks and platforms
In its largest expansion phase, the Hungen station had eleven parallel tracks between the station building and the northern border of the station. The 124 meter long house platform on track 1 - which could only be used by trains and in the direction of Friedberg - was through an underpass with the two central platforms 2 (226 meters long for tracks 2 and 4) and 3 (150 meters long for the Tracks 14 and 15) connected. The latter was reserved for trains on the so-called Seentalbahn in the direction of Laubach and Mücke . With the cessation of passenger traffic on this section of the route in 1959, this platform became superfluous, and the underpass leading there was filled in at an unknown time. With track 5 there was still a platform-free track for freight trains, which could be used by trains on the Gießen – Gelnhausen and Friedberg – Mücke lines in both directions.
Today only central platform 2 with platform tracks 2 and 4 is required for train traffic on the Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn. With the planned reactivation of passenger traffic on the Horlofftalbahn, the house platform with track 1 will also be needed again in order to be able to carry out operations in a meaningful way.
The modernization of the house and middle platform for 4.7 million euros was completed in October 2017. Since then, the traffic station has been barrier-free with elevators . Originally the cost was estimated at 3.3 million euros. The city of Hungen contributes around 441,000 euros. Platforms 1-3 were given a height of 55 centimeters and a length of 90 meters. Since the former sidings were unnecessary, the underpass could be extended in a north-easterly direction to the street Am Bahndamm , which means a shortening of the routes, especially for schoolchildren.
Freight traffic and locomotive treatment system
On the south side of the station, east of the reception building, there was a 220-meter-long loading street with a side ramp on track 22; west of the reception building there was a 100-meter-long head and side ramp on track 19.
The locomotive treatment facilities were located at the fork in the lines to Gießen and Laubach : a two-tier locomotive shed with an attached boiler house and water tower on tracks 12 and 13 (= extensions of tracks 6 and 7), next to track 13 a coal bunker . The site plan from October 1959 shows a symbol of a turntable in platform 24 (= western extension of platform 4), but the diameter of the turntable is not shown. This track is no longer shown in a corresponding plan dated August 1966.
After the cessation of passenger and freight traffic on the various sections of the railway lines in contact with Hungen station, all these systems became dispensable and almost all tracks for freight traffic and locomotive handling were dismantled or dismantled. The freight hall was demolished in 2015.
Signal boxes
The Hungen station has two signal boxes : The signal box Ho (Hungen Ost) is located in km 21.93 of the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line on the northern side of the tracks and was put into operation on September 1, 1907. The signal box Hf (Hungen dispatcher) is located in km 21.6 of the above-mentioned railway line at the western end of platform 2; it was put into operation in 1906. Both signal boxes are mechanical and of the Willmann design.
business
The Hungen train station is in the tariff area of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).
train
Hungen has not been a railway junction since the end of passenger traffic on the Friedberg – Mücke railway line. Currently, every hour (for rush hour additional amplifiers trains between Giessen and Nida) passenger trains ( GTW 2/6 ) of the HLB Hessen course GmbH, a company of the Hessian State Railways , on behalf of the RMV.
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bus
There are several bus stops at the train station. From here the buses go to the surrounding towns, communities and villages along the disused Friedberg – Mücke railway (main bus route 363). I.a. There is also a direct connection to Gießen via the city of Lich and the municipality of Pohlheim with the 375 bus.
future
There are concrete plans to reactivate the disused Wölfersheim-Södel-Hungen section. In July 2010 negotiations were ongoing between the neighboring communities and Deutsche Bahn regarding the sale of the railway line. Among other things, it still had to be clarified whether and how the trains should stop at the Hungen station, which has already been partially dismantled. The municipalities are aiming for an early operation. From 2016, after the 4-track expansion of the Main-Weser-Bahn from Frankfurt to Friedberg, direct connections from Hungen to Frankfurt am Main are desired.
Web links
- www.vergöse-bahnen.de Detailed description with many pictures of the disused sections from Hungen
- Image of the train station on Panoramio
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station category (PDF; 408 kB)
- ↑ a b c State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (Ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen , p. 1046
- ↑ City of Hungen - Status of measures for all building construction measures in the area of property management (status: December 2011) ( Memento from November 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 22, 2012
- ↑ Site plan of the Hungen station of the Deutsche Bundesbahn as of October 1959
- ^ LOK Report - Hessen: Hungen station officially put into operation after renovation . October 11, 2017 ( lok-report.de [accessed February 12, 2018]).
- ↑ Ursula Sommerlad: 25 percent on top: conversion will be considerably more expensive. In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung. August 18, 2017, accessed February 12, 2018 .
- ^ Hungen station: barrier-free to the platforms. In: Gießener Allgemeine Zeitung. September 15, 2015, accessed April 6, 2016 .
- ↑ Hungen train station now also barrier-free. In: Gießener Anzeiger. October 11, 2017, accessed February 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Demolition as the start of an extensive renovation. In: Gießener Anzeiger. August 14, 2015, accessed February 12, 2018 .
- ↑ List of signal boxes , accessed on April 6, 2016.
- ^ HLB Hessische Landesbahn: Timetables. Retrieved July 25, 2018 .