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Leutkirch station is the station of the town of Leutkirch im Allgäu in the German state of
The station was opened on 1 September 1872 as a terminus with the opening of the Kißlegg to Leutkirch section of the Württemberg Allgäu Railway. The temporary station building was opened with a floor area of 27 × 10 metres. The wooden, one-storey building had rooms for the post office, railway service rooms and two waiting rooms.
On 14 August 1874, it became a through station with the opening of line to Isny. In preparation for the opening of the line to Memmingen on 2 October 1889 when Leutkirch became a railway junction, the current station building was built as a “wedge station” (German: Keilbahnhof) between the diverging tracks.
Leutkirch became a through station again on 31 December 2001 when the line to Isny was closed. The station building is listed as a historical monument and was restored between 2011 and 2012. The costs involved were financed by the town and a cooperative of 600 citizens who provided €1 million. The town station was declared as the "Monument of the Month” in April 2012 by the Memorial Foundation of Baden-Württemberg.
The station is served every two hours by two services operated by
Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...
. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn
The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder.
describes itself as the se ...
as a category 5 station and has two platform tracks. The station is located on the network of the ''Bodensee-Oberschwaben Verkehrsverbund'' (Lake Constance
Lake Constance (german: Bodensee, ) refers to three Body of water, bodies of water on the Rhine at the northern foot of the Alps: Upper Lake Constance (''Obersee''), Lower Lake Constance (''Untersee''), and a connecting stretch of the Rhine, ca ...
- Upper Swabia Transport Association, ''bodo'') and belongs to fare zone 68. The address of the station is Bahnhof 1.
The station was opened on 1 September 1872 as the terminus of the Württemberg Allgäu Railway. On 14 August 1874, with the opening of the line to Isny, it became a through station. In preparation for the opening of the line to Memmingen on 2 October 1889 when Leutkirch became a railway junction, the current station building was built between the diverging tracks.
History
The station was opened on 1 September 1872 as a terminus with the opening of the Kißlegg to Leutkirch section of the Württemberg Allgäu Railway. The temporary station building was opened with a floor area of 27 × 10 metres. The wooden, one-storey building had rooms for the post office, railway service rooms and two waiting rooms.
On 14 August 1874, it became a through station with the opening of line to Isny. In preparation for the opening of the line to Memmingen on 2 October 1889 when Leutkirch became a railway junction, the current station building was built as a “wedge station” (German: Keilbahnhof) between the diverging tracks.
Leutkirch became a through station again on 31 December 2001 when the line to Isny was closed. The station building is listed as a historical monument and was restored between 2011 and 2012. The costs involved were financed by the town and a cooperative of 600 citizens who provided €1 million. The town station was declared as the "Monument of the Month” in April 2012 by the Memorial Foundation of Baden-Württemberg.
Operations
Long distance services
On 27 May 1979, the first express train was introduced on theMunich
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– Memmingen– route. A pair of trains (numbered 366/367) ran from Munich via Lindau and Zürich Airport
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to Milan
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, stopping in Wangen and Leutkirch. The express train was formed of a class 218 locomotive hauling modern carriages, but it was withdrawn in May 1982. The now runs on the Munich–Zürich
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route through the station without stopping; it only stops between Buchloe and in Memmingen.
Regional services
The station is served every two hours by two services operated by Go-Ahead Bayern
Go-Ahead Verkehrsgesellschaft Deutschland GmbH is a railway operator in Germany. A subsidiary of the Go-Ahead Group, it commenced trading on 9 June 2019.
History
In November 2015, Go-Ahead Germany was awarded a contract to operate services by th ...
, the RE 96 (Munich–Leutkirch–Lindau) and the RB 92 (Memmingen–Leutkirch–Lindau-Insel). Additionally Leutkirch is served every two hours by the RB 53 to/from Aulendorf, operated by DB Regio
DB Regio AG is a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany. DB Regio AG, headquartered in Frankfurt am Main. It is a 100% subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn Group and there part of the DB Regio bus ...
.
Notes
References
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* * * {{cite web , url=http://www.deutschebahn.com/site/bahn/de/geschaefte/infrastruktur__schiene/netz/netzzugang/dokumente/Bahnhof/SNB/T/TLK__NBS.pdf , publisher=Deutsche Bahn
The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder.
describes itself as the se ...
, title=Track plan for Leutkirch station , format= PDF, 300.76 KB , language=German , accessdate=28 January 2013
Railway stations in Baden-Württemberg
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1872