Lich railway station (Oberhess)

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Lich (Oberhess)
Entrance building 2010
Entrance building 2010
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation FLI
IBNR 8003673
Price range 5
opening December 29, 1869
location
City / municipality Lich
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 30 ′ 53 "  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 20"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 53 "  N , 8 ° 49 ′ 20"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Lich (Oberhess) train station is a train station in the central Hessian town of Lich . The station is on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line ( Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn ). A second stop in the Licher city area is Langsdorf (Oberhess) in the Langsdorf district .

history

The station was opened on December 29, 1869 together with the first section of the Lahn-Kinzig Railway from Gießen station to Hungen . The client was the Upper Hessian Railway Company .

In 1904 the Lich (Oberhess) Süd station of the Wettertal Railway was set up south of the station . The barrier post on what was then the federal highway was equally responsible for both routes. When the private line was closed in 1961, the Lich Süd station was dismantled; nothing of the high-rise buildings has been preserved.

Railway systems

Reception building

The 1869 built with the opening of the line reception building is a two storey building 7achsiges. A monopitch roof is attached to the south and west, which is supported by cast iron columns. Today it is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

Tracks and platforms

In its greatest expansion phase, Lich station had 10 parallel tracks between the goods shed and the southern border of the station, five of which belonged to the Gießen – Gelnhausen line and five to the Butzbach-Licher railway station. Their railway systems were connected to the Bundesbahn systems at both station heads.

DB train station

A house platform with a length of 213 meters on track 1 - which could only be used by trains from the direction of Gelnhausen to Gießen - and an intermediate platform with a length of 263 meters on track 2 were available for passenger traffic in this part of the station. Track 3 was a passing track for freight trains that could be used in both directions; track 4 next to it only began at the level of the signal box , which was in the western extension of this track in the middle of the railway systems. At the eastern end of the station, this track led to a combined head and side ramp, which could be reached from the direction of the city via an access road from the east to the site. Track 5 was the loading track running between track 1 and the goods shed built as a brick building in 1895 , on which a loading route was also laid. There were no locomotive treatment systems in this part of the station.

Goods shed from 1895

Today, tracks 1 and 2 with the two switches connecting them are the last tracks left in use in the station. Both tracks have platforms. The previously existing travel direction restriction for track 1 was abandoned at the latest with the closure of track 3, so that today both tracks can be used as signals for both directions of travel. The remaining tracks in this part of the station are partially still there, but are heavily overgrown and hardly recognizable.

BLE train station

The line from Butzbach described an arc to the north around the premises of the Licher private brewery and ran for a short stretch parallel to the DB line. Together with this, it crossed the level crossing, made a weak right-hand curve and initially branched into two platform tracks before the station's five-track system developed, which was completely parallel to the DB tracks. The small station building of the BLE was directly behind the level crossing, the platforms began at this and a small goods shed stood as a separate building, but without a siding, about 75 meters to the east. For the travelers there was no direct connection to the platforms of the main line, they had to accept the five-minute walk over the level crossing to the opposite side of the railway facilities to the DB station building. A short loading street was located at the western end of the southernmost station track, the second track from this side was used as a line track, it led to the dam, which is still visible in the landscape today (2020), to a bridge, on the DB line at an angle of about 60 ° was crossed. On the eastern extension of the middle track of the BLE systems, there was a single locomotive shed with a water crane in the apron and a small coal bunker to the side .

Signal box

Signal box

Lich station has a signal box called Lf (Lich dispatcher). It is located about 15.08 km on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway diagonally opposite the station building and was built and put into operation in 1890. The technology of the signal box is mechanical. Until 1961 it was surrounded on all sides by tracks, today it marks the southern boundary of the station area.

traffic

Platforms

Lich is in the tariff area of ​​the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

Rail transport

Regional trains of the Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) stop in Lich on the Gießen – Nidda – Glauburg-Stockheim – Gelnhausen route. On weekdays there is an hourly service in both directions, which is supplemented by individual half-hourly connections from and to Nidda from Monday to Friday during rush hour. On Sundays and public holidays there is a continuous 120-minute cycle, with the last two journeys towards Gelnhausen ending in Nidda. During the day, this public holiday service is supplemented by trains from Gießen to Hungen.

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Lahn-Kinzig Railway 		Langsdorf (Oberhess)

Bus transport

Lich is connected to lines to Gießen , Butzbach , Schotten and Grünberg via the bus network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund .

literature

Web links

Commons : Bahnhofstraße 1 (Lich)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen , p. 401
  2. ^ Andreas Christopher: Butzbach-Licher Railway. ArGe Drehscheibe eV, Cologne 2004. S. 60f - track plan and text
  3. ↑ Site plan of the Lich (Oberhess.) Train station of the Deutsche Bundesbahn as of October 1959
  4. ↑ Gerd Wolff: Deutsche Klein- und Privatbahnen - Part 8: Hessen , S. 175ff.
  5. ↑ List of signal boxes , accessed on June 11, 2020.