Metelen Land station

Metelen Land
Through station

Metelen Land Railway Museum
Location Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 52°9′44″N 7°15′14″E / 52.16222°N 7.25389°E / 52.16222; 7.25389Coordinates: 52°9′44″N 7°15′14″E / 52.16222°N 7.25389°E / 52.16222; 7.25389
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 4081 [1]
DS100 codeEMTE [2]
Category6 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 30 September 1875 [3]

Metelen Land station is located in Metelen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Münster–Enschede railway. The station is operated by the Metelen Land Railway Museum.

The station was opened by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) on 30 September 1875, along with the Münster–Enschede railway.[3][4] The station was originally called Metelen and received its current name on 1 October 1902.[3]

Metelen Land station is served by the following Regionalbahn service:[5]

Line Line name Route Operator Frequency
RB 64 Euregio-Bahn Enschede Gronau (Westf) Metelen LandSteinfurt-Burgsteinfurt – Altenberge Münster (Westf) Zentrum Nord Münster (Westf) DB Regio NRW 60 min
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
toward Enschede
RB 64
Euregio-Bahn
toward Münster Hbf

Metelen Land Railway Museum

The station is operated by the Eisenbahn-Interessengemeinschaft Metelen e. V. (Metelen railway community of interest, EIG). It includes, among other things, the Metelen Land Railway Museum (German: Eisenbahnmuseum Metelen Land, which has a uniform and hat collection. The station’s fully functional mechanical signal box, a section of railway track with a crossover, a local and long distance barrier, homemade hand-operated inspection trolley, a salon car, workshop wagons, track maintenance equipment, a ticket printing machine, a weighing scale with card issuance, an industrial diesel locomotive and model railways can also be viewed.[6]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. 1 2 3 "Metelen Land station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. "Line 2014: Nevinghof - Gronau (DB-Grenze)". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. "Metelen Land station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  6. "Bahnhofsmuseum Metelen Land" (in German). Eisenbahn Interessengemeinschaft Metelen e.V. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
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