Darmstadt Nord station
- Odenwaldbahn ( 3.8 km ) ( KBS 641 )
- Rhine -Main Railway ( 37.9 km ) ( KBS 651 )
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The Darmstadt Nord Train Station is a junction station in Darmstadt. The passenger station, stick to the guidelines of the Odenwaldbahn and the Rhine -Main -Bahn, has four platform tracks. Parallel to the station run, lying north, two additional tracks for freight.
Architecture
The North Station was built in 1909-1912 as part of the realignment of the railway lines to Darmstadt for the workers and as a connection of the company Merck. The heritage railway station, in traditionalist architecture of the time the early 20th century, was built to plans of building advice the Mainz railway management, Friedrich Mette gear. The station building is at ground level and opens from the top via a hallway in a cross section and stairs, the two platforms. The southern platform roofing is a classical iron construction from the early years of the railway in Darmstadt. It comes from an older, unknown station and was rebuilt at North Station.
Vehicular importance
At the station, the railway lines meet in Darmstadt Hbf and Frankfurt Central Station or in the direction Babenhausen and clean home. Next to it is about seven kilometers a link for the freight from the branch floor corridor ( in Weiterstadt ) to Darmstadt - Kranichstein with links in the opposite direction to Darmstadt Central Station and Arheilgen.
Initially, the station was a through station. The distances from the Odenwald and from Aschaffenburg went on their own roadways in Darmstadt Main Station. After the Second World War, he changed into a separation station, as the route of the Odenwald railway dismantled and the trains were run on the tracks in the Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof.
In 2005, the southerly tracks of the passenger Odenwaldbahn got an eastern link to the track direction Darmstadt, the Rhine -Main -Bahn, which was in turn connected with a switch connection to the freight line. This rebuild for nine million euros, it was possible that trains the Odenwaldbahn, originally provided directly by the so-called Frankfurt curve only for freight train traffic to continue to go to Frankfurt am Main in the direction Arheilgen. , Making a junction station was born.
In parallel to the cross section of the Northern Railway Station runs the flyover of the Frankfurt road on which are also bus and tram lines.
The North Station is a junction point of the transport. There are connections to the regional transport routes to Wiesbaden, Darmstadt Hbf, Aschaffenburg Hauptbahnhof, Frankfurt (Main ) Hbf, Erbach and Eberbach and trams (lines 6, 7, 8: Merck - Eberstadt ) and busses ( line R Darmstadt Nord Train Station - Darmstadt Böllenfalltor ) HEAG mobilo.
DB Regio runs on the RB 75 since the summer of 2008 with bunk sets and locomotives of the series 143 The non- state-owned railway vias runs on the Odenwaldbahn with Itino railcars.