Messel train station
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 Station before electrification
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | FMES |
| IBNR | 8003996 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1857 |
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| Architectural style | classicistic / historicistic |
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| City / municipality | Messel |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 55 '18 " N , 8 ° 44' 45" E |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The station Messel is a station on the Rhine-Main Railway .
Geographical location
The station is located at kilometer 45.59 between Darmstadt and Dieburg, about two kilometers south of the town center of the municipality Messel in the district Messel who is not with the nearby World Heritage Site Messel Pit is to be confused. The great distance to the town center has always been a problem.
Infrastructure
Until 2019, the Messel station had two continuous main tracks, as well as another main track for overhauls. The tracks could be reached from the house platform via intermediate platforms. For this reason, dangerous train journeys always had to be excluded by the local dispatcher when passenger trains stopped .
Comprehensive modernization of the station began in 2019. As a result, the station lost its third track to make room for a new, barrier-free outside platform. In addition, the house platform was also made barrier-free. The two points at the top of the station were retained so that Messel station will continue to operate as a station .
The old track plan signal box (type Dr S2) was replaced by a new electronic signal box , whereby the local manning can be omitted due to the no longer necessary passenger safety at the intermediate platforms.
Traffic significance
During the construction of the Main-Rhein-Bahn 1856-1858 by the Hessische Ludwigsbahn (HLB) from Mainz via Darmstadt to Aschaffenburg , the village of Messel at that time received a station in 1857 , which was for goods traffic on November 15, 1858, for passenger traffic on December 25 Started operations in 1858. The station did not initially have a reception building and was located in the forest, about two kilometers south of the village of Messel.
The station was significant in for freight, he immediately south of that location Messel Pit opened up (today because of the found there fossils , a UNESCO - World Heritage ). From 1859 to 1970 bituminous mudstone (colloquially also known as oil shale ), iron ore and lignite were mined there and petroleum products were extracted from the mudstone by smoldering . The Messel train station therefore had extensive facilities for handling the freight traffic generated there .
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Reception building
A station building was built in 1870. It was a type construction with a third floor and thus varied, as was customary at HLB. The stately building was constructed from yellow sandstone with cornices and moldings made from red sandstone. Today it is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act . The building is no longer used for rail operations. The level crossing directly to the east of the train station is still operated by on-site staff who are housed in a small separate building.
Access to the track to Aschaffenburg is only possible after crossing the opposite track at ground level. If a regional train arrives in the direction of Aschaffenburg, no train from the opposite direction may enter the station during this time.
Station bell
In the past, a bell rang 20 minutes before the departure of a train to inform the Messel mine workers, who were on their way to the station, of the train's imminent departure.
literature
- Railway in Hessen. Cultural monuments in Hesse = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany , ed. from the State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Theiss Verlag Stuttgart, 2005, 3 volumes in a slipcase, 1,448 pages, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6
- Georg Wittenberger: The Main-Rhine Railway . In: The railway and its history = series of publications of the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg 2 (Ed .: Georg Wittenberger / Förderkreis Museen und Denkmalpflege Darmstadt-Dieburg). Darmstadt 1985, pp. 51–57.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ See: Railway Directorate Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of February 14, 1914, No. 8. Nachrichten, p. 54: Depending on where you live, whether in the train station or in the Messel community, a different medical responsibility was arranged for the railway employees.
- ^ Deutsche Bahn AG. Retrieved July 19, 2020 .
- ^ Railway in Hesse. Cultural monuments in Hessen , vol. 2.1, p. 246.