Dillenburg station
- Dill Distance (km 125.0 )
- Scheldt Valley Railway (km 0.0 )
- Dietzhölztalbahn ( 0.0 km )
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The Dillenburg station is a through station in the central Hessian town of Dillenburg. Immediately adjacent to the railway station, the central bus station, many bus routes open up the surrounding area from where. Together they form the nodes of public transport in Dillenburg.
- 2.1 interlocking technology
Importance
Passenger
The Dillenburg station has five platform tracks. Here hold regional express trains, the Central Hesse Express and regional trains. With the exception of occasional deviations trains run regularly from the following tracks from:
Freight traffic
The station is divided into two parts Station: The passenger station and the neighboring Southern freight depot. Here, the regional freight advent of the railway stations Haiger and Dillenburg is collected and connected through the freight yards Wetzlar and Kreuztal to the national transport network. In addition, the Dillenburg freight station has a high importance for the supply of the local steel mill of ThyssenKrupp stainless steel, mainly to be finished steel coils, which are delivered daily except Thursday in a unit train from the Ruhr area ( esp. Bochum). For coping with the shunting Dillenburg is assigned a locomotive Class 294 daily.
History
Until the termination of passenger service on the Scheldt Valley Railway Dillenburg - Wallau (Lahn ) and the Dietzhölztalbahn Dillenburg - Ewersbach had another platform with the tracks 9 and 10, from which the trains were leaving these two branch lines of the railway station. Access to this platform is no longer possible today. Until the establishment of the bus station in the late 1980s, there were the butt tracks 24, 25 and 26, of which only 24 track, however, was reached by a platform. Usually drove from there trains to Niederwalgern from. Also the former depot Dillenburg in 1983 concluded that once had a great significance for the maintenance of steam locomotives in service in the region. Also, the freight station has up to now very extensive railway tracks, one of which, however, only about half is needed for today's maneuvering, the rest of the former railway depot facilities have been forfeited.
Interlocking equipment
The train and shunting movements in the area of Dillenburg station will be driven by three electro-mechanical interlocking of. Still in operation are the Dispatchers interlocking Df ( Dillenburg Dispatchers ) and the two points guards interlockings Dn ( Dillenburg North) and Ds ( Dillenburg South). Of the other signal boxes in the area of freight station last the interlocking Dr ( Dillenburg marshalling yard ) was abandoned. The break-in, interim and exit signals in the area of the station Dillenburg are still running as a form of signals whose distant signals were, however, completely rebuilt on Lichtvorsignale back in the early 90s.
Service
In the immediate aftermath of the station there is the bus station. There, keep all local and regional bus lines, so that not only can be switched between bus and train, but also between the bus lines to each other. In addition, there is a taxi stand at the train station and short term parking. Further south of the bus station is a park - and -ride car park for long term holidaying passengers available.