Nördlingen railway station is a

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railway station in

Nördlingen Nördlingen (; Swabian: ''Nearle'' or ''Nearleng'') is a town in the Donau-Ries district, in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, with a population of approximately 20,674. It is located approximately east of Stuttgart, and northwest of Munich. It was ...

, Bavaria, Germany.

History

During the construction of the Ludwig South-North Railway (''Ludwig-Süd-Nord-Bahn''), a station was also planned in Nördlingen, with the intention of facilitating a connection to the

Württemberg Württemberg ( ; ) is a historical German territory roughly corresponding to the cultural and linguistic region of Swabia. The main town of the region is Stuttgart. Together with Baden and Province of Hohenzollern, Hohenzollern, two other histo ...

railway network. The long

Donauwörth Donauwörth (; ) is a town and the capital of the Donau-Ries district in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is said to have been founded by two fishermen where the rivers Danube (Donau) and Wörnitz meet. The city is part of the scenic route called "R ...

–Nördlingen– Oettingen section was built by the

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and opened on 15 May 1849. The

Aalen Aalen (; Swabian German, Swabian: ''Oole'') is a town located in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg, about east of Stuttgart and north of Ulm. It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district and is its largest town. It is ...

–Nördlingen section, however, was built by the

Royal Württemberg State Railways The Royal Württemberg State Railways (''Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen'' or ''K.W.St.E.'') were the state railways of the Kingdom of Württemberg (from 1918 the ''People's State of Württemberg'') between 1843 and 1920. Early ...

. It was opened in 1863, connecting Württemberg to the Bavarian railway network. However, a separate terminal station was built in Nördlingen for the Württemberg line. The

Bavarian Railway Museum The Bavarian Railway Museum (''Bayerisches Eisenbahnmuseum'' or BEM) is a railway museum based in the old locomotive sheds at Nördlingen station in Bavaria, Germany. It is home to more than 100 original railway vehicles and has been locate ...

(BEM) is now housed in the former Nördlingen engine depot ( Betriebswerk). It is also the base of the ''BayernBahn Betriebsgesellschaft mbH'' (''BayernBahn'', Bavarian Railway Operations Company), a private train operating company that operates freight traffic on the lines in the area. There are two signal boxes (for dispatching and for controlling access to sidings); these are mechanical interlocking of the ''Jüdel'' class and was built in 1929. The station still has semaphore signals.

Train operations

DB Regio Bayern operated

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services as the ''Fugger-Express'' until December 2022, using

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Continental (class 440) electric multiple units. Since then, this line has been operated as part of the ''Augsburger Netze'' under Go-Ahead Bayern. The lines to Feuchtwangen and

Gunzenhausen Gunzenhausen (; ) is a town in the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, in Bavaria, Germany. It is situated on the river Altmühl, northwest of Weißenburg in Bayern, and southwest of Nuremberg. Gunzenhausen is a nationally recognized recreation a ...

are only operated by passenger trains in the summer (otherwise they are exclusively used by freight). These are operated with diesel and steam locomotives.Termine und Sonderfahrten

References

External links

Bavarian Railway Museum

Eisenbahn Wörnitz-Franken

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