Löhnberg station

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Löhnberg
Train station with regional train
Train station with regional train
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation FLOE
Price range 6th
opening January 10, 1863
Architectural data
architect Heinrich Velde
location
City / municipality Löhnberg
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 30 '34 "  N , 8 ° 16' 27"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '34 "  N , 8 ° 16' 27"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Löhnberg station is the station of the central Hessian community Löhnberg . The station is located on route kilometers 20.2 of the Lower Lahn Valley Railway (Gießen–) Wetzlar – Limburg – Niederlahnstein (–Koblenz).

history

The Löhnberg station was opened on January 10, 1863 with the completion of the third construction phase of the Lahntalbahn .

Investments

To the northwest of the tracks is the reception building with signal box , form signals and low platforms . There is a house platform and an intermediate platform that can be reached via the tracks. In addition to the platform tracks, there are two overtaking and stabling tracks connected on both sides and a loading track connected on one side. There is a daylight signal in the direction of Wetzlar.

business

The station is located in the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

passenger traffic

The station is served every hour by regional trains on the Limburg (Lahn) - Weilburg - Wetzlar - Gießen route (sometimes further to Alsfeld / Fulda ). 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 .

line route Clock frequency
RB 45 Regional train
Limburg (Lahn) - Eschhofen - Weilburg - Löhnberg - Wetzlar - Gießen (- Grünberg (Oberhess) - Mücke (Hess) - Alsfeld (Oberhess) - Fulda )
Hourly
(+ individual reinforcement trains at rush hour)

Lines
Weilburg Hessian state railwayRB 45
Lahntalbahn
Stockhausen (Lahn)

Freight transport

From Monday to Friday, open freight wagons are loaded with clay via a fall platform , which is then transported there by lorry from the pits in the neighboring Westerwald . A shunting system takes care of the loading-appropriate positioning of the wagons . Besides Limburg, Löhnberg is the only on-the-way station along the entire Lahn Valley Railway that is still served by freight traffic.

The Tonzüge from Löhnberg be a diesel locomotive of the 261 series of DB serves. There are also individual other trains z. T. private operator.

Individual evidence

  1. abbreviation
  2. Udo Kandler: Lahn Valley Railway. (Eisenbahn-Journal special edition III / 89). Hermann Merker Verlag, Fürstenfeldbruck 1989. ISSN  0720-051X . P. 15

Web links

Commons : Bahnhof Löhnberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files