Leymen train station
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 Station building and tracks
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| opening | May 1, 1910 |
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| City / municipality | Leymen |
| Department | Haut-Rhin department |
| region | Grand Est |
| Country | France |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 29 '34 " N , 7 ° 29' 6" E |
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The Leymen train station ( French Gare de Leymen ) is the train station in the Alsatian town of Leymen in Sundgau . It is located at kilometer 13.7 of the meter-gauge and electrified Basel – Rodersdorf railway and is the only station on French territory. This is operated by the Swiss Baselland Transport AG (BLT). The meanwhile unoccupied through station is located on the southern edge of the village on Rue de la Flüh and is also connected to the center of the village by Rue de la Gare . The station building is on the north side of the route, that is, towards the village.
history
The station was opened on May 1, 1910, when the then Birsigthalbahn (BTB) completed its only line by extending it from Flüh to Rodersdorf . At that time, Leymen still belonged to the German Empire , which had only approved the construction of the approximately three-kilometer-long section across its territory on the condition that Leymen also received a station. Since the change of operator from BTB to BLT at the beginning of 1974, the latter has been responsible for operations. In 1997 the half-timbered entrance building was completely renovated.
business
After the Birsigthalbahn temporarily as after the change of operator from 1974 line was designated 17, it is completely in the since October 25, 1986 Basel tram network integrated and managed by the line 10 operated by BLT, a 25.952 km long diameter line from Rodersdorf to Dornach . It runs every 30 minutes or every 15 minutes at peak times . In this case, cross the trains throughout the day in Leymen, wherein the trains in the direction Rodersdorf the main platform (track 1) depart, while those depart towards Basel from the track. 2 Since France belongs to the Eurozone , but the station is operated by a Swiss company and is also integrated into the Northwestern Switzerland Tariff Association (TNW), the ticket machine in Leymen only accepted Swiss francs for a long time .
literature
- Claude Jeanmaire: The Development of the Basel Trams and Overland Railways 1840-1969 . Publishing house for railways and trams, Basel 1969
- Hansrudolf Schwabe, Rudolf Werder, Werner Heuberger, Paul Messmer, Rudolf Pleuler, Christian Siposs: BTB + BEB + TBA + BUeB = BLT, Baselland Transport AG, 100 years of regional public transport in Northern Switzerland , Pharos-Verlag, Basel 1987, ISBN 3- 7230-0222-6