Londorf train station

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Londorf
Reception building 2015
Reception building 2015
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks previously 2
abbreviation FLDF
opening August 1, 1896
Conveyance PV : May 30, 1981
GM : April 1, 1991
location
City / municipality Rabenau
Place / district Londorf
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 40 '38 "  N , 8 ° 51' 50"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 40 '38 "  N , 8 ° 51' 50"  E
Height ( SO ) 234  m above sea level NN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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The Londorf station is a through station at kilometer 12.7 of Lumdatalbahn in central Hesse . Since September 30, 1990, the once operational center of the line is no longer served by train traffic. The station building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .

history

The line between Grünberg and Londorf was opened on August 1, 1896. On June 1, 1902, the line from Londorf to Lollar was extended and created a further link between the Main-Weser Railway ( Lollar station ) and the Vogelsberg Railway ( Grünberg station ). From 1896 to 1902 Londorf was the terminus of the line from Grünberg. The main reason for the construction of the line was - as with many others - not the passenger, but the freight traffic.

The eastern section to Grünberg was shut down at the beginning of the summer schedule in 1963 due to low passenger numbers and dismantled in 1965. So Londorf was again the terminus, but this time from the direction of Lollar. With the end of continuous operation, the station lost its importance. Many operational facilities were shut down and demolished (e.g. the locomotive treatment systems). In addition, the station lost its independence.

On May 30, 1981 the last scheduled passenger train left the station because the Deutsche Bundesbahn stopped regular passenger traffic on the western section of the Lumdatalbahn . The recent passenger numbers of around 700 would have enabled further operation. The termination was accompanied by many protests. Freight trains were still loaded in the station until September 1990. The decommissioning procedure was then initiated. The formal shutdown according to the law at the time (not according to Section 11 AEG) came into force on April 1, 1991. The line between Staufenberg-Mainzlar / junction Didier-Werke (km 21.800) and Rabenau-Londorf (km 12.395) has been formally unattended since then. In 1995 the Lumdatalbahn association was founded, which aims to reactivate the line to Londorf and maintain the railway facilities up to the end of the line on Londorfer Eichweg.

Todays situation

In 2001, with the complete renovation of Kreisstraße 168 near Allendorf (Lumda), the Allertshäuser Straße level crossing was removed and in 2003 the bridge over the Klingelbach, which had been damaged since spring 1993, was dismantled. Since then, the route from the Allendorf (Lumda) to Londorf has no longer been passable. Despite the closure, special traffic to Allendorf (Lumda) took place in the 1990s.

business

An excerpt from the Lumdatalbahn timetable from the summer of 1959. You can see the train connections from Grünberg and Londorf to Gießen .

Passenger traffic was primarily focused on commuter and school traffic in the direction of Gießen, where many trains were tied through without changing. In addition to continuous trains on the Grünberg – Gießen route, there were additional trains that began or ended in Londorf and only traveled the section in the direction of Lollar.

Few services in the 1950s began in Giessen, ran via the Vogelsbergbahn first to Grünberg, and then ended again in Giessen via Londorf and Lollar. In Londorf, a water crane was available for this purpose, the foundation of which is still visible today.

In 1959 there were eight continuous trains from Monday to Friday and three starting in Londorf to Giessen. There were fewer on the weekend. There was no timing, so the offer was mostly limited to the morning and evening hours and noon. All trains were 2nd class and some had a 1st class compartment. After the section to Grünberg was closed, traffic was directed exclusively to the Gießen regional center. After the steam locomotive maintenance at the Gießen depot in 1969 was closed, individual trains from Limburg circulated via Gießen to Londorf. Some of the wagons were parked there over the weekend, the locomotive withdrawn.

Railway systems

Station building

The high-rise buildings consisted of a three-storey station building , a wooden goods shed and locomotive handling systems. The latter were located in the western area of ​​the station and also included a two-tier engine shed and a water tower . The facilities were completely demolished when operations in Grünberg were discontinued in 1963. The station building was sold to the community of Rabenau and is a listed building. Until 2012 it housed a DRK rescue station on the ground floor .

Until June 30, 1977 the Londorf site was occupied by railway employees. Technical railway systems were operated in the main building until around 1990 (shortly before the closure). The wooden goods shed was torn down and replaced by a large village community room (“Citizens' Hall at the Train Station”).

Track systems

Track system 2015 - the station building is on the left in the background

There are still four tracks in Londorf station today:

  • Track 1 is a through track and is located on the house platform . In addition to its function as a start and end point for passenger trains, it also served as a siding and transferring track. Before the line to Grünberg was closed, it was used as a crossing track. Today it is the only one of the four remaining tracks that has been filled in on a short piece because of the creation of a bus turning loop.
  • Track 2 is the main track. It is located on the intermediate platform and served only through trains until 1963. Since then it has been used to park passenger trains.
  • Track 3 served as a freight, storage and shunting track. It used to be tied on both sides, but in the 1970s it was dismantled to a dead end . Since then it can only be approached from the direction of Grünberg via the approximately 300 m long extension of track 2, which served as a pull-out track after the remaining stretch was dismantled .
  • Track 4 was used as a loading track for freight trains. It is also a stump track and like track 3 can only be approached from the direction of Grünberg, but like track three it was connected on both sides until at least 1959. A combined head and side ramp has been created next to the track in the direction of the Brodbachstrasse level crossing , followed by a loading street and several storage areas. Until the 1950s, the track led in an easterly direction over the level crossing of today's Leestrasse to a private siding , where another side ramp was built next to a warehouse. The foundations can still be seen.

The former two-storey steam engine shed and access tracks were dismantled as early as 1960. It was in the western entrance to the train station, directly at the Brodbachstrasse level crossing between the railway line and Im Feldchen street . The locomotive shed with water tower and living / workshop rooms could be reached from track 1 via the W8 / W10 switch connection.

On the side of the station building parallel to track 1, track 5 was still located until the late 1960s , on which another loading street was laid. It ended bluntly at the short track-side ramp of the goods shed .

Location / transport links

Londorf train station is very central and connects directly to the town center. A bus turning loop was set up next to the station building - but only after passenger traffic had ceased. The bus line 520 of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) stops there . This runs along the Lumdatalbahn to Gießen train station . Other bus lines go to the Grünberger Bahnhof at the Vogelsbergbahn or the surrounding villages.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ abbreviation
  2. ↑ a b Historical data ( Memento from February 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Lumdatalbahn infrastructure description
  4. ↑ a b c d General information about Londorf train station ( Memento from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Cultural monuments in Hesse . 3 volumes, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 (route 065; with 17 named buildings)
  6. ↑ a b Historical information and data ( Memento from February 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ a b Information about the Lumdatalbahn and its stations
  8. ^ Station plans for Londorf station from 1946, 1959 and 1967, BM Grünberg and Deutsche Bundesbahn Frankfurt.
  9. ↑ It is no longer shown on the station plan from 1959.