Weiterstadt station
| Weiterstadt | |
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 The station building
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | FWI |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | August 1, 1858 |
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| City / municipality | Weiterstadt |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 54 '34 " N , 8 ° 34' 45" E |
| Height ( SO ) | 105 m above sea level NN |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The station Weiterstadt is kilometer 26.65 of the Rhine-Main Railway between Mainz and Darmstadt . The local trains of the line RB 75 of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) in the direction of Aschaffenburg (via Darmstadt) and Wiesbaden (via Mainz) stop at the station today .
history
The Rhein-Main-Bahn was opened in the section between Gustafsburg Harbor and Darmstadt on August 1, 1858 by the Hessian Ludwig Railway. Shortly afterwards the station received its first reception building . The station was manned by a station manager and four train attendants.
After the end of the First World War , Weiterstadt was a border town in the French zone during the Allied occupation of the Rhineland . The station was used as a head and end station for trains coming from the west.
Reception building
The current station building was built around 1870 south of the line. It consists of a two-storey, eaves central building with a one-story, also eaves side wing to the west, originally the station restaurant . The building material is red sandstone . The four-axis facade is divided in the middle on both the street and the platform side by a two-axis, flat central projectile with a gable. The street-side entrance door is also located on the ground floor between these two axes. Separated from the main building there is a goods shed from around 1890 made of brick . The reception building is a cultural monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act .
Todays situation
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The Weiterstadt train station is between Groß-Gerau and Darmstadt . On the Groß-Gerau side, the junction "Klein-Gerau Eichmühle" belonging to the dispatcher of the Groß Gerau station and on the Darmstadt side the junction "Weiterstadt Stockschneise" belonging to Darmstadt main station are the next operating points.
The Weiterstadt station is manned locally and has a push-button interlocking of the DrS2 design. The station has an outside platform as well as an intermediate platform that is blocked and released by the dispatcher with a chain. An outside platform has been under discussion for a long time. In preparation for this, the third track was dismantled in 2001 when the new pedestrian underpass was built.
There are nine bike boxes. Since 1997 no buses stop at the station. The nearest stop is 800 m away.
In February 2018, construction work began to modernize the station, including to improve the accessibility of the platforms.
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| Klein-Gerau |
 RB 75 Rhein-Main-Bahn |
Darmstadt Central Station | ||
literature
- Heinz Schomann : Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Cultural monuments in Hessen. Railway in Hessen . 3 volumes. Hg: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Schomann, p. 238, states that the building still standing today was built around 1870. He doesn't say what the situation was like up to then.
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.hessische-ludwigsbahn.de.ki
- ↑ Schomann, p. 238.
- ↑ http://stellwerke.de/liste/seite321.html#WEI
- ^ The Weiterstädter Bahnhof ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bike & Ride in the RMV area ( Memento from October 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Rainer Hein: Weiterstadt train station: easier entry, better rhythm. In: www.faz.net. March 29, 2018, accessed March 30, 2018 .