Cölbe station

• Main- Weser Railway (km 100.3 ) ( KBS 620)
• Castle Forest Railway (km 104.4 ) ( KBS 622)
• Upper Lahn Valley Railway ( 88.5 km ) ( KBS 623)

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The Coelbe station is a through station on the Main- Weser Railway in Coelbe. Here branch the Upper Lahn Valley Railway by Erndtebrück about Biedenkopf and Bad Laasphe and the Castle Forest Railway to Frankenberg (Eder ) from about weather and Munchausen from the main line. He has four platform tracks and a passing siding.

The neo-Baroque railway station is a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act.

• 4.1 passenger
• 4.2 freight Transport

History

The station was opened along with the Main- Weser Railway in 1852. Over time, the importance of the station increased. Especially with the opening of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway and the castle forest railway grew the passenger and freight traffic. North of the station, there were sidings to companies that have their goods shipped there. Today, however, all freight tracks are dismantled. In passenger Coelbe is served with a few exceptions only regional trains. After the platform of the railroad was 1 and 2 so strong run down that he was not allowed to enter, he had to be closed and replaced. In the fall of 2010, he was paved and raised from the Kurhessenbahn. The platform of the tracks 3 and 4 is to be the medium renewed.

Location / Transportation Connection

The Coelbe railway station is on the eastern edge of the same place at the L 3089th In addition to the reception building there are some P R parking and the bus stop Coelbe station, at the bus stop, the MR -72, 481 and 482. Through a pedestrian overpass over the L 3089 the station is connected to the town center.

Railway facilities

Reception building

The station building was built to a design by Alois Holt Meyer in 1908. On the local side facing the west of the route is an L-shaped stucco building with mansard roof, to the south followed by a T-shaped, schlichterer and lower cultivation.

The building is now used by the municipality Coelbe as an administrative building. To get to the railroad tracks, you have to walk around the building, as the underpass is behind it.

Tracks

The Coelbe station now has five tracks, four of which have a platform. The two outer platform tracks (3 and 4) and the fast track (track 5) be used only by trains of the Main- Weser Railway. Track 2 can be operated by all trains. However, it stopped there only trains to Bad Laasphe / Erndtebrück or Frankenberg ( Eder). Likewise, track 1, but this can not be used for trains the Main -Weser -Bahn due to lack of turnout. From this track formerly branched from the commercial ports. From track 1, the features of the Upper Lahn Valley Railway and the castle forest train ride to Marburg.

The station has two central platforms:

• A central platform between the tracks 1 and 2 and part of Kurhessenbahn. It has long been extremely run down and too low for the trains. After the platform edge partially ceased to exist and it was always dangerous at Zugeinstiegen, he had to be completely locked in early 2010 and replaced by a provisional platform to platform 1. When the castle was modernized forest path in autumn 2010, this also affected the platform of Kurhessenbahn in Coelbe station. He was paved, provided with glass bus shelters and the visually impaired tactile and raised on the side of track 2 to 76 cm. The platform edge on the track 1 remains at a height of 55 cm.
• The other central platform between the tracks 3 and 4 He is to be the medium also renewed and lifted. There, all trains of the Main- Weser Railway.

Track access

On the track- facing side of the station building, the staircase is access to the underpass to the two central platforms. There is also a ticket machine and an information board with timetables. A house platform does not exist.

Signal box

The interlocking Coelbe is no longer available. It was the model for a H0- kit by Kibri (model number 9488 ).

Service offer

Passenger

The Coelbe station is served hourly by the Central Hesse Express (SE 30). It runs on the Main- Weser -Bahn between Frankfurt Hbf and Treysa Also in Treysa start at rush hour, some regional trains of the relation Treysa - Marburg -Gießen. In addition, keep the operated by the Kurhessenbahn regional trains 42 and 43, which also operate on the branching side roads upper Lahn Valley Railway and Castle Forest Railway hourly and end at Marburg Station. Thus Coelbe has direct trains to Frankenberg ( Eder), Biedenkopf, Bad Laasphe, Erndtebrück, Treysa, Marburg, Giessen, Friedberg and Frankfurt am Main. Especially since the takeover of passenger traffic through the Kurhessenbahn on the two branch lines in 2002 is a growing number of passengers recorded. This is mainly due to the more modern railcars, the denser clock and the modernized stops along the routes.

Freight traffic

Freight transport, there are no longer Coelbe station since the 1990s. Until then, in the northern area of ​​the station goods were loaded from local companies. Today, the once extensive freight only witness the loading ramps and larger free areas on which were previously loading tracks.