Sarnau train station

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Sarnau
Sarnau train station.jpg
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Separation station
Design Through station
Platform tracks formerly 3
abbreviation FSR
IBNR 8005291
opening March 19, 1883
Conveyance July 2, 2010 (PV)
location
City / municipality Lahn valley
Place / district Sarnau
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 52 '21 "  N , 8 ° 46' 10"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 52 '21 "  N , 8 ° 46' 10"  E
Height ( SO ) 195  m above sea level NHN
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen
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Lahntal-Sarnau
The 2011 breakpoint
The 2011 breakpoint
Data
Operating point type Breakpoint
Platform tracks 1
abbreviation FLSR
Price range 6th
opening 4th July 2010
location
City / municipality Lahn valley
Place / district Sarnau
country Hesse
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 52 ′ 16 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 22"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in Hessen

The Sarnau Station is a train station at kilometer 85.0 of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway and at the same end point of the Castle Forest Railway at kilometer 100.9. On July 3, 2010, the passenger traffic was abandoned because a local stop was built on the Upper Lahn Valley Railway. Since then, the station has served as a depot .

history

After goods traffic on the Oberen Lahntalbahn began on March 19, 1883 between Cölbe and Laasphe , this section of the route was also opened for passenger traffic on April 2, 1883. At the same time, the Sarnau train station opened, as one of what was previously eight stations on the route. This means that not only Sarnau, but also Lahntal-Göttingen , which were both independent municipalities until July 1, 1974, were connected to the public rail network. The specialty of the train station is that it is in the local area of ​​Sarnau, but closer to the center of Lahntal-Göttingen .

With the Schelden Valley Railway (Wallau – Dillenburg ) branching off at Wallau (Lahn) station in 1911 , and the continuous opening of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway to Erndtebrück in autumn 1889, the importance of Sarnau station also increased. However, the Sarnau train station became the final destination of the Burgwaldbahn (railway line Frankenberg – Sarnau) that opened on July 1, 1890 . Sarnau thus became a station of separation .

Initially, passenger transport was well used, but the number of journeys continued to decline as vehicle traffic increased. The station gained importance in freight traffic through the loading of timber from the Burgwald , but this also increasingly fell victim to truck traffic.

Since the time of the Second World War , the Sarnau train station has also been connected to long-distance traffic ( Warburg (Westf) - Marburg (Lahn) ) by express trains . Since the beginning of the 1950s to the trains running in the late 1970s so-called hedge Neil trains had on the Upper Lahn Valley Railway the train route Frankfurt (Main) - Cologne on Marburg (Lahn) - Erndtebrück - Kreuztal - Siegen - Betzdorf (Sieg) - Au (Sieg) , on the Burgwaldbahn Bremen - Frankfurt (Main) via Rahden - Bünde - Bielefeld - Paderborn - Brilon Wald - Korbach - Marburg , at times with slightly different train routes. On April 25, 1945, an ammunition train was attacked in Sarnau station, in which a nearby inn and ancillary buildings were completely destroyed.

After the Kurhessenbahn leased the branch lines in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia for a period of 20 years from DB Netz AG on January 1, 2002 , the Obere Lahntalbahn and the Burgwaldbahn have been operated by them since then as part of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV ) operated. This should secure local public transport at least until 2022. The aim is to make the operation more efficient and thus more cost-effective through various measures. One of these rationalization measures also affected the Sarnau train station: On July 4, 2010, the train station was closed to passenger traffic and replaced by the Lahntal-Sarnau stop, which is now closer to the town center.

Railway systems

Reception building

The station building was completely renovated and restored only a few years ago, it now appears in the style of the time when the railway opened. The building is no longer used for railway operations.

Tracks

In its largest expansion phase, Sarnau train station had nine adjacent tracks. At the two central platforms , which by an east of the reception building arranged platform underpass could be achieved were the tracks 3 and 4 at the north and the tracks 7 and 9 at the southern platform. Track 9, however, was dismantled in the 1950s; it is no longer shown on an official site map from January 1, 1958. At that time it was possible to drive into all platform tracks from the direction of Marburg and Biedenkopf , while only tracks 3 and 4 were accessible from the direction of Frankenberg (Eder) . While these main tracks had usable lengths of between 455 and 524 meters, the two platforms were 165 meters long. Track 1 was a 152 meter long loading track on the loading street west of the main building, track 2 was a 125 meter long loading track for freight cars. Further demolitions were carried out until the 1990s. With the cessation of passenger traffic in 2010, the grass platforms of the old station were removed and the underpass filled. So that train crossings can still be carried out, three main tracks remained and Sarnau became a depot . It is equipped with entry and exit form signals for all tracks.

Signal box

The Sarnau train station had two signal boxes : the signal box Sr was housed in a small annex to the reception building, the signal box Sw was originally on the northern side of the railway system. The signal box Sf , which exists today, was built in the 1930s and replaced the old signal box Sw , initially with this name. It is located in kilometer 94.5 of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway in the fork of the railway lines. It has been called Sf since the signal box Sr in the station building was dissolved and all the operating facilities in this signal box were combined. It houses a lever bank of the Jüdel type and, in addition to the five points and three entry signals, also serves the six exit signals set up around 1971.

New Lahntal-Sarnau stop

After the last passenger train left the station on July 3, 2010, the Lahntal-Sarnau stop was opened the following day . It is located on route kilometer 84.0 of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway and is assigned to station category 6 .

Service offer

Like the old train station, the stop is only served by the trains of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway. The traffic is carried out by the DB subsidiary Kurhessenbahn as line RB 94. In the 2019 timetable period, regional trains stop every hour from Monday to Saturday until around 8.30 p.m., on Sundays they run every two hours; Some additional excursion trains run on Sundays from May to October.

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Goßfelden RegionalRB 94
Obere Lahntalbahn 		Cölbe

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ abbreviation
  2. ↑ Station category ( Memento from May 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 25 kB)
  3. ↑ Lahntal, municipality, district of Marburg-Biedenkopf. Historical local lexicon for Hesse (as of November 26, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Hessian State Office for Historical Cultural Studies (HLGL), accessed on January 7, 2013 .
  4. ↑ a b Gasthof-Pension "Zur Aue": History (accessed on June 23, 2011)
  5. ↑ German Railway Course Book 1944/45: Timetable 198e, Warburg (Westf) –Marburg (Lahn) (accessed on June 23, 2011)
  6. ↑ Formation of Heckeneilzug E 451 / E 452 Frankfurt-Bremen , accessed on March 22, 2016
  7. ^ Based on a map of the Sarnau station of the Deutsche Bundesbahn as of January 1, 1958
  8. ↑ Site plan and lever system overview of Sarnau train station, as of November 26, 1983
  9. ↑ Myheimat.de: Göttingen loses the rail connection
  10. ↑ Timetable for line RB 94 ( Memento from August 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive )