Arfurt (Lahn) station

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Arfurt (Lahn)
Logo Deutsche Bahn.svg
Through station
Arfurt Bahnhof.JPG
Entrance building
General information
LocationAm Bahnhof 1, Arfurt, Runkel, Hesse
Germany
Coordinates 50°24′23″N8°12′40″E / 50.406403°N 8.211079°E / 50.406403; 8.211079 Coordinates: 50°24′23″N8°12′40″E / 50.406403°N 8.211079°E / 50.406403; 8.211079
Line(s) Lahn Valley Railway (km 38.1) (625)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code173 [1]
DS100 code FAF [2]
IBNR8000599
Category 6 [1]
Fare zone Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund logo.svg : 6012 [3]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
OpenedAbout 1900
Services
Preceding station Hessische Landesbahn Following station
Villmar
towards Limburg (Lahn)
RB 45 Aumenau
towards Fulda
Location
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Arfurt (Lahn)
Location within Hesse

Arfurt (Lahn) is a station (classified as a halt) in the Runkel district of Arfurt in the German state of Hesse on the Lahn Valley Railway (Lahntalbahn).

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History

Originally, Arfurt did not have a station on the Lahn Valley Railway. [4] Between 1860 and 1862, however, a track attendant’s house (Streckenwärterhaus) was built at the bottom of the village with the opening of the section of the railway between the stations of Limburg (Lahn) and Weilburg on 14 October 1862. [5] [6]

The heritage-listed former track attendant's house 20090523194553!Arfurt Bahnhof.JPG
The heritage-listed former track attendant’s house

The two-and-a-half-storey building with a flat gable roof consists of plastered brickwork, which has been partly altered. There are windows on two vertical axes with cornices. The associated stables has a knee wall made of wood. Both buildings, which are now privately owned, are heritage-listed; the reason for this includes its location at the foot of the village. [6]

Arfurt (Lahn) station is located about one kilometre away from Arfurt and also serves Seelbach, which is a district of Villmar. It can only be reached via paved paths from both villages. The halt (Haltepunkt) was built in 1897 as a freight-loading point for Lahnkalkwerk (Lahn Limestone Works) Auerberg; passenger traffic was also served shortly afterwards. [7] [8]

The station buildings form a unique combination of half-timbered and corrugated iron buildings. [9] Like the entire line, this building is also a heritage-listed monument. While the corrugated iron hut serves as a waiting room, a small signal box is housed in the half-timbered building, which is still used today. Due to the lack of funding, this situation will continue to exist at least until 2020, despite increasing structural deficiencies. [10] The station has 400 metre-long platforms, which were raised to a height of 38 cm and paved over a length of 140 metres from October 2011. The platform lighting was also renewed and a waiting room was built. [11]

Unlike most stations on the Lahn Valley Railway, Arfurt station is hardly used by bicycle tourists as the Lahn Valley cycleway (Lahntalradweg) runs on the other side of the river. In 2012, around 80 passengers were counted at the station on working days. [11]

Rail services

Regionalbahn (RB 45) services operated by Deutsche Bahn run hourly on the Lahn Valley Railway between Limburg and Giessen, some continuing to Alsfeld and Fulda. Since the timetable change of 2011/2012 on 11 December 2011, the RB services on this section of the Lahn Valley Railway have been operated by the Hessische Landesbahn. Alstom Coradia Lint 41 (class 648) sets are used. The Regional-Express (RE 25) services run through the station without stopping. The RE services are operated with Alstom Coradia LINT 27 and 41 (class 640 and 648) railcars and Bombardier Talent (class 643) sets.

The following service stops in Arfurt (Lahn) station: [12]

LineRouteFrequency
RB 45 Lahntalbahn Limburg (Lahn) – Eschhofen – Arfurt (Lahn) – Weilburg – Wetzlar – Gießen – Alsfeld (– Fulda)Hourly (+ extra trains in the peak)

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References

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  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN   978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 130. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
  4. ↑ German national railway timetable of May 1897, table 192
  5. ↑ Udo Kandler (1989). "Lahntalbahn". Eisenbahn-Journal (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck: Hermann Merker Verlag (Special: III/89): 15. ISSN   0720-051X.
  6. 1 2 Falko Lehmann (1994). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (ed.). Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen: Landkreis Limburg-Weilburg (in German). Vol. 2: Mengerskirchen bis Weinbach. Wiesbaden: Vieweg Verlag. ISBN   3-528-06243-6.
  7. ↑ Johannes Laubach (9 July 2011). "Sommertour: Im vergessenen Kalkwerk". Nassauische Neue Presse (in German). Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  8. ↑ German national railway timetable of July 1905
  9. ↑ Udo Kandler (1989). "Lahntalbahn". Eisenbahn-Journal (in German). Fürstenfeldbruck: Hermann Merker Verlag (Special: III/89): 74. ISSN   0720-051X.
  10. ↑ "Kein Geld für Kleinod?". Nassauische Neue Presse (in German). 12 January 2012. Archived from the original on 6 February 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  11. 1 2 "Einsamer Bahnhof im Tal: Sanierungen am Haltepunkt Arfurt". Nassauische Neue Presse (in German). 12 January 2012. Archived from the original on 10 February 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2014.
  12. ↑ "Time table line number 625" (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
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