Mindelheim station

• Augsburg- Lindau ( KBS 971 )
• Günzburg- Mindelheim ( KBS 978)

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The Mindelheim railway station is the county town of Mindelheim in the district of Lower Allgäu region and is located about 1 km south of the historic Old Town.

Description

The train station is on the railway line Augsburg- Lindau and is an endpoint of Mittelschwaben path leading over Krumbach to Gunzburg.

The station has three tracks. Track 1 is built as a main platform, the tracks 2 and 4 can be reached via an underpass. From Platform 1 for trains in the direction of Günzburg and to Memmingen in order to keep track two for a transiting Euro City. If this is not the case, the train to Memmingen and Lindau on track 2, the train to Munich or Augsburg keeps on track 4

For ticket purchase are two machines, and a ticket desk.

The incoming trains usually consist of a locomotive of the series 218 and three to five n- cars. In addition, the station of train sets of the series 642, 612, and now and then the 628 series is approached. The n- cars should be eventually replaced by double-decker cars.

Station building

In the lower part of the station building there is a restaurant that the Dispatcher office, a switch, two kiosks and a waiting hall. Above the building contains apartments. The building is in poor condition. This shows in the fact that crumbles on the outer walls of plaster and brick exposed. The newly built underpass is sprayed with graffiti.

Compounds

By Mindelheim drive daily three SBB Eurocityzugpaare the line 88 in the direction of Munich or Zurich, but this without stopping. In addition, to meet in Mindelheim morning and evening in 30 -minute intervals, the regional trains from / to Munich / Memmingen and Augsburg / Memmingen.

Since December 2011 Mindelheim reached to avoid too long a train times from Kempten Memmingen. He drives back empty to Memmingen.

Converted 2007/ 08

In 2007 /08 the grounds of the station were renovated at a cost of around eight million euros and rebuilt.

Of the former four tracks are three reasons of space available. Also, a pedestrian underpass from Bahnhofstrasse to Allgäu road and one kilometer to the west a car underpass were built; the level crossing of the old Federal Road 16 has been removed.

Future

2008 in Memmingen, an agreement was signed that the routes between Munich and Zurich electrified and will be expanded for the tilting technology, thus Buchloe - Memmingen and Mindelheim Station, which further branches off the diesel-powered Mittelschwaben web. It is also planned to build a central bus station on the station forecourt and to relocate the car park further west.

The station by 2025 in the Regio -S -Bahn Danube -Iller on the line Ulm 2020 - be involved Memmingen - New Ulm - Günzburg - Krumbach - Mindelheim.