Nidda station

• Lahn- Kinzig -Bahn ( 35.0 km )
• Railway Beienheim Scots (km 19.2 )

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The Nidda railway station is a railway station in the same town on the Lahn- Kinzig -Bahn. Furthermore Nidda is the terminus of trains from Friedberg.

History

The station was opened on 29 June 1870 as the end point of the second section of the Lahn- Kinzig -Bahn ( Hungen - Nidda ). The client was Oberhessische Railway Company. In late November 1870, the railway line was extended to Gelnhausen. On 1 October 1897, the railway line Beienheim Scots of Beienheim about Nidda was opened by Scots. This Nidda became a railway junction in the Wetterau.

On November 29, 1959, the passenger on the Nidda Scots section has been set. The freight was still operated until February 1960. Due to lack of demand, he also was set and finally the line was dismantled a few months after the complete decommissioning.

In the years 2008 and 2009 the station was (apart from the main platform ) completely modernized. The platforms to the tracks 2 and 4 and to the tracks 5 and 7 were renewed and brought to a uniform height of 55 centimeters.

Bahnhofanlage

The station area of Nidda has considerable proportions. In addition to numerous parked railcars of Butzbach Licher Railway (BLE ), which carried out the traffic to 2005 here, there is in the southern part extended Verladegleise, engine shed and the industrial port of a chemical plant.

Reception building

The station building of the railway station is under the Hessian monument.

Operation

Since the timetable change on 14 December 2003, it was taken on the Lahn- Kinzig- path of the weekend and holiday traffic again.

Until the change of timetable 2004/2005 the range of Horlofftalbahn in the transport of the Lich Butzbach Railway Company was served. Since the timetable change 2005/2006 of the Hessian State Railways, the parent company of Butzbach Licher railway company.

Even if the station is now unoccupied, prevails here at least temporarily, even a lot of traffic when the trains come together to and from Gelnhausen Giessen and Friedberg and enable mutual transfers. Trains to the casting depart from platform 2, the trains to Gelnhausen of track 4 and Friedberg direction of the tracks 5 and 7 from. Track 1 (the main platform ) was the track in the direction of Scots.

Current situation

On the Lahn- Kinzig -Bahn trains run every hour between casting and Gelnhausen. In the rush hour end or start individual trains in Nidda.

On the Horlofftalbahn trains run every hour on Echzell, Reichel home and Beienheim to Friedberg. In the rush hour run on the track through trains to and from Frankfurt ( Main ) Hauptbahnhof. Two of these trains are lokbespannt as SE- trains of the DB Regio AG with a BR 218 and repainted silver pieces (since the timetable change 2012/2013 double-deck cars with BR 218 ), a train in multiple traction with the also from Friedberg trains running GTW 2/6 served by HLB.

On Nidda station stop some regional and city bus lines.