Eschhofen station

Eschhofen station
Through station
Location Limburg an der Lahn, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°23′37″N 8°06′18″E / 50.39357°N 8.10491°E / 50.39357; 8.10491Coordinates: 50°23′37″N 8°06′18″E / 50.39357°N 8.10491°E / 50.39357; 8.10491
Line(s)
Platforms 3
Other information
Station code 1678
DS100 codeFEN
Category4 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 10 January 1863

Eschhofen station lies on the Lahn Valley Railway (German: Lahntalbahn) in the town of Limburg an der Lahn in the German state of Hesse. In addition, just east of the station, the Main-Lahn Railway (Main-Lahn-Bahn) branches off to Frankfurt. The station was opened in 1863. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[1]

History

Eschhofen station was opened on 10 January 1863 with the inauguration of the Lahn Valley Railway. The first section of the Main-Lahn Railway was opened to traffic between Eschhofen and Niederselters on 1 February 1875 and the rest of the line was completed to Frankfurt on 15 October 1877. The current station building was probably built in 1896 and is classified as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act.[2]

Infrastructure

The station is only served by regional services. It has three platform tracks. Track 1 (the “home” platform, next to the station building) is used for trains running towards Limburg and Koblenz. Track 2 and track 3 are adjacent to a central platform and track 2 is served by all trains towards Gießen and Niedernhausen / Wiesbaden / Frankfurt. Track 3 is used only as a passing track and is not used regularly. Next to track 3, there are two tracks without platforms, but they are no longer used. The station has a park-and-ride and a bike-and-ride facility.

Services

Eschhofen station is served by all trains towards Limburg/Koblenz and Gießen/Wiesbaden/Frankfurt. With the exception of the Regionalbahn 21 service, which is operated by vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft, and the RB 25 service, which is operated by Hessische Landesbahn, all trains are operated by Deutsche Bahn. Trains to Koblenz (Regional-Express 25) run every two hours on the Gießen–Limburg–Koblenz route. There is also an hourly Regionalbahn service on the Gießen–WetzlarWeilburg–Limburg route, which since the 2011/2012 timetable change has been operated by Hessische Landesbahn. On the Main-Lahn Railway services run as far as Niedernhausen during the peak hour about every quarter of an hour, with a Regional-Express service and a Stadt-Express to Frankfurt, and a Regionalbahn service to Wiesbaden.

Preceding station   DB AG   Following station
Terminus
RE 20
Main-Lahn Railway
Niederbrechen
SE 20
Main-Lahn Railway
Lindenholzhausen
toward Koblenz Hbf
RE 25
Lahn Valley Railway
Weilburg
toward Gießen Hbf
Preceding station   vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft   Following station
RB 21
Ländches Railway
Lindenholzhausen
Preceding station   Hessische Landesbahn   Following station
Terminus
RB 25
Lahn Valley Railway
Kerkerbach
toward Gießen Hbf

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. "Eschhofen station heritage listing" (in German). Denkmalschutz Hessen. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
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