Limburg (Lahn) station is a station in the city of

Limburg an der Lahn Limburg an der Lahn (officially abbreviated ''Limburg a. d. Lahn'') is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany. Geography Location Limburg lies in western Hessen between the Taunus and the Westerwald on the river Lahn. The to ...

in the German state of

Hesse Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a States of Germany, state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major histor ...

. It is on the

Lahntal railway The Lahntal railway (German: ''Lahntalbahn'') is a railway line between Niederlahnstein in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate to Wetzlar in Hesse. Its western terminus was originally in Oberlahnstein. Trains now mostly operate between Kob ...

(german: Lahntalbahn), running between

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...

and

Gießen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univers ...

Infrastructure

The only section of line that is electrified in the Limburg area is between Limburg freight yard and Eschhofen station. At the west end of Limburg station a two-track branch line branches off towards Staffel, where it separates into two single-track lines to

Siershahn Siershahn is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. History Clay finds from La Tène times have been unearthed here. In 1211, Siershahn had its first do ...

(the Lower Westerwald Railway, ''Westerwaldbahn'') and to Au (Sieg) (the

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, ''Oberwesterwaldbahn''). East of Limburg, in Eschhofen, the double track, electrified

Main-Lahn Railway The Main-Lahn railway (german: Main-Lahn-Bahn), also called the Limburg railway (''Limburger Bahn''), is a double-track, electrified main railway line in Germany. The long line extends from Frankfurt Central Station (''Hauptbahnhof'') to Eschhofen ...

(''Main-Lahn-Bahn'') branches off to the southeast towards

Frankfurt Frankfurt, officially Frankfurt am Main (; Hessian: , "Frank ford on the Main"), is the most populous city in the German state of Hesse. Its 791,000 inhabitants as of 2022 make it the fifth-most populous city in Germany. Located on its na ...

and

Wiesbaden Wiesbaden () is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the state of Hesse. , it had 290,955 inhabitants, plus approximately 21,000 United States citizens (mostly associated with the United States Army). The Wiesbaden urban area ...

(via the

Ländches Railway The Ländches Railway (''Ländchesbahn'') is a single-track non-electrified branch railway line between Wiesbaden and Niedernhausen, in the German state of Hesse. The long line was opened in 1879. It is now Deutsche Bahn List of scheduled railway ...

(''Ländchesbahn''). Until 2005, there was also a

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 ...

maintenance depot at the station, which is now closed and was formerly partly leased to the private rail operator, '' vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH'', which has been taken over by

Hessische Landesbahn Hessische Landesbahn (Hessian State Railway, HLB) is a regional transport company owned by the German state of Hesse, based in Frankfurt am Main. It provides bus and rail passenger transport services and, to a lesser extent, rail freight services i ...

. Most of the former site was converted into a shopping centre. ''Vectus Verkehrsgesellschaft mbH'' also had its headquarters there until 2014. The registered office of ''Hessische Landesbahn'' is now in an adjoining building of ''WERKStadt Limburg''. A two-track hall is used for the maintenance and maintenance of traction units. The electrified sidings are used by

. All non-electrified sidings are used by both DB and HLB. A former freight line and some points were dismantled to create more space for parking spaces used by employees of the surrounding companies.

Train services

The following services currently call at Limburg:

Connections with Limburg Süd station

During the construction of the Cologne–Frankfurt high-speed railway, it was decided not to establish a rail link between Limburg (Lahn) station and

Limburg Süd station Limburg Süd ( en, Limburg South) is a station in the town of Limburg an der Lahn, in the German state of Hesse. It is located in the ''Eschhöfer Feld'' ("Eschhofen field") (brochure, 20 pages) in the district of Eschhofen at the 110.5 kilometre ...

. Buses that stop at the bus station on the south side of the station connect the two stations together and are free for travelers with train tickets to either station.

References

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