Niederlahnstein station

Niederlahnstein station
Through station
Location Lahnstein, Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany
Coordinates 50°19′01″N 7°35′59″E / 50.3169444°N 7.5997222°E / 50.3169444; 7.5997222Coordinates: 50°19′01″N 7°35′59″E / 50.3169444°N 7.5997222°E / 50.3169444; 7.5997222
Line(s)
Platforms 4 (previously 6)
Other information
Station code 3360
DS100 codeKNL[1]
IBNR8000278
Category4[2]
History
Opened 3 June 1864 (1864-06-03)
Services
Preceding station   VIAS   Following station
toward Neuwied
SE 10
RheingauLinie
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
Terminus
RE 25
Lahntal-Express
Bad Ems
toward Gießen Hbf
Preceding station   vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft   Following station
Terminus
RB 25
Lahntal-Bahn
Friedrichssegen

Niederlahnstein station is, along with Oberlahnstein and Friedrichssegen, one of three stations in the town of Lahnstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is a separation station on the East Rhine Railway (German: Rechte Rheinstrecke) and the Lahn Valley Railway and is located in the Niederlahnstein district and forms a public transport hub for the Rhine-Mosel-Lahn area.

History

The Nassau Rhine Railway Company (Nassauische Rhein Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened in 1856, the first section of the Nassau Rhine Railway (Nassauische Rheinbahn) from Wiesbaden to Rudesheim, which was authorised in 1853. Due to financial and technical difficulties, the line was not opened to Oberlahnstein until 1862. It was extended to Niederlahnstein on 3 June 1864. There, the Rhine Railway ran over the Pfaffendorf Bridge to Koblenz to connect with the West Rhine Railway (Linke Rheinstrecke) of the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). A train ferry had connected Oberlahnstein and Königsbach in order to connect the two lines for two years from the second half of 1862. The extension of the Nassau Rhine Railway from Niederlahnstein to Neuwied was opened on 27 October 1869.

With the annexation of Duchy of Nassau by Prussia as a result of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the subsequent absorption of the Nassau State Railway, including the Lahn Valley Railway by the Prussian state railways, a direct connection was opened on 15 May 1879 from Niederlahnstein to the Lahn Valley Railway near Friedrichssegen. In 1878/79, the Horchheim rail bridge was opened to the south of Koblenz to connect the east and west Rhine lines. Thus, the direct connection was built from Niederlahnstein to Koblenz. In the same period, the station received a new entrance building.

At the end of the Second World War, the station was the target of Allied air raids on 26 December 1944 and the station building was completely destroyed. After the Niederlahnstein–Hohenrhein section of the Lahn Valley Railway was destroyed in the Second World War it was rebuilt as a single-track line. Around 1960, the entire East Rhine Railway from Cologne to Wiesbaden was electrified.

During the introduction of the interim Rhineland-Palatinate integrated regular-interval timetable (Rheinland-Pfalz-Taktes) between early June 2004 and early November 2009, Niederlahnstein station was made a pilot project of Rhineland-Palatinate to convert it into an "environmental station". The core of the concept was the upgrading of the platforms to make them barrier-free. This involved the building of three passenger lifts to the platforms. In addition, new platform canopies, bicycle parking, short-term parking and a new pedestrian underpass as an entry to the station were built. The municipality of Lahnstein was commissioned to carry out the redevelopment of the station forecourt. The total construction cost of the project was €5.4 million.[3]

In December 2007, an electronic interlocking was commissioned on the Right Rhine line. In the summer of 2008, the second phase of the project was completed and the Oberlahnstein–Niederlahnstein section was connected to the electronic interlocking system.[4]

In 2007, services on the Frankfurt-Koblenz section were tendered Europe-wide by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV) and the Zweckverband Schienenpersonennahverkehr Rheinland-Pfalz Nord (Rail Transport Association of Rhineland-Palatinate North, SPNV). As a result, VIAS GmbH took over operations between Neuwied, Koblenz, Wiesbaden and Frankfurt under the 2010/2011 timetable on 12 December 2010.

Depot

A locomotive depot (Bahnbetriebswerk) with a turntable, was formerly attached to Niederlahnstein station. It was disbanded as an independent agency in August 1952.

Platforms

Niederlahnstein station has an extensive layout of tracks. Four platform tracks next to two island platforms serve passenger traffic. There is no “home” platform next to the station building.

The numbering begins on the west side of the station building.

Rail services

Railways in greater Koblenz

All local trains (Regional-Express, Stadt-Express, Regionalbahn) running on the two lines serving the station stop at it. Freight and some long-distance trains pass through the station without stopping.

The southern section of the East Rhine Railway (Koblenz–Wiesbaden–Frankfurt) was served until the beginning of the 2010/2011 timetable in December 2010 by the Loreley-Bahn (RB 10) and the Loreley-Express (RE 10), which were operated by the Deutsche Bahn (DB) . As the result of a Europe-wide tender, services since 12 December 2010, have been operates as a single Stadt-Express services every hour, sometimes even half an hour, by VIAS GmbH, using new Stadler FLIRT sets.

Since the change to the 2004/2005 timetable on 12 December 2004, diesel multiple units are operated on the Lahn Valley Railway are operated by Vectus between Koblenz Hbf and Limburg (Lahn), usually hourly. In addition there is a regional express service (Lahntalexpress, RE 25) that runs between Koblenz Hbf, Limburg and Gießen.

Line Service Route Frequency
SE 10 RheingauLinie NeuwiedKoblenzNiederlahnsteinWiesbadenFrankfurt Hourly
RE 25 Lahntalexpress Koblenz – NiederlahnsteinLimburg – Weilburg – WetzlarGießen Ever 2 hours
RB 25 Lahntalbahn Koblenz – Niederlahnstein – Bad Ems – Diez – Limburg Hourly

Notes

  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  3. "Umweltbahnhof Niederlahnstein" (Press release) (in German). Government of Rhineland-Palatinate. 9 November 2009. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  4. "ESTW Rheintal: Weiterer Streckenabschnitt geht in Betrieb" (in German). Bahn-Nachrichtenarchiv. 2 December 2011. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
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