History
The station was opened in 1850 at the same time as the Main-Weser Railway. The village of Niederwalgern experienced a boom as a result of the opening of the railway. A depot was built to the northern part of the station precincts, which was partly used for loading freight. The importance of the station, especially for passengers, continued to increase with the opening of the Aar–Salzböde Railway in May 1894. The Main-Weser Railway was electrified in the 1960s. This also applied to a short section of the line to Herborn in the railway station.
The demise of the station began in the 1980s, when the electric overhead in the western part of the station and many remote sidings were removed. In addition, the loading of freight has been completely abandoned. In 1992, the last freight train ran from Gladenbach into the station, and the closure of the Aar–Salzböde railway was likely. When passenger operations ended on the eastern part of this route in May 1995, despite the positive report of an inquiry, the importance of the station declined significantly. Some rail services were cancelled and the station staff was withdrawn. The reactivation of the Aar–Salzböde railway became ever more unlikely with the abandonment of the total traffic on the western sector (2001), total closure (2002) and finally the dismantling of the track to the west of Niederwalgern (2006). Today, the route to Herborn is dismantled, except in the station area in Niederwalgern. The freight yard is closed and the number of operable tracks has been reduced to three. Moreover, in recent years, some freight tracks in the northern part of the station and connecting tracks to the Aar–Salzböde railway have been dismantled. [6]
The station is designed to be a largely barrier-free environment. The only problem for people with disabilities is the passenger level crossing from platform 1 to platform 2, which lies between the tracks.
Operations
The station is served on the Main-Weser Railway by the Mittelhessen-Express (RB 41), running hourly on weekdays between Treysa and Frankfurt (and every two hours on Saturday afternoon and Sunday). In the past Regionalbahn trains operated on different routes. Since December 2010, a new type of service, the Main-Sieg-Express (RE 99), runs every two hours between Marburg and Frankfurt. As a result, the integration of the station in the network has developed very positively. In the peak hour some Regional-Express services (Kassel–Frankfurt or Marburg–Frankfurt) also stop here, and there are shuttles between Treysa or Marburg and Giessen.
The trains on the Aar–Salzböde railway did not run to a fixed pattern. They ran from Herborn to Niederwalgern, continued non-stop to Marburg and then returned.
At peak times some individual Regional-Express services stop in Niederwalgern. This has been preserved from the time when it was possible to change to the trains to Herborn. Meanwhile, however, there are demands that the trains stop in Fronhausen station instead, which is busier than Niederwalgern. [10] The station is located in the area administered by the Rhine-Main Transport Association (Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund, RMV).
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Kirchhain station is a through station at the 89.2 km mark on the Main-Weser Railway. It is located very centrally in the centre of the town of Kirchhain in the German state of Hesse. Formerly, the station was the starting point of the Ohm Valley Railway to Burg- und Nieder-Gemünden and the Wohra Valley Railway (Wohratalbahn) to Gemünden (Wohra). The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn (DB) as a category 4 station.
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The Kreuztal–Cölbe railway is a 88-kilometre-long main line in Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It branches off the Ruhr–Sieg railway at Kreuztal and runs via Erndtebrück, Bad Laasphe and Biedenkopf to Cölbe. Operationally, the line is now divided into two parts. The Kreuztal–Erndtebrück section is operated together with the Erndtebrück–Bad Berleburg railway as the Rothaar-Bahn and the subsequent section to Cölbe, now operated by the Kurhessenbahn, is called the Obere Lahntalbahn. Trains at the eastern end of the line run to/from Marburg (Lahn).
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