Metelen Land station

Metelen Land
Through station

Metelen Land Railway Museum
Location Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 52°9′44″N 7°15′14″E / 52.16222°N 7.25389°ECoordinates: 52°9′44″N 7°15′14″E / 52.16222°N 7.25389°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 4081 [1]
DS100 codeEMTE [2]
Category6 [1]
History
Opened 30 September 1875 [3]

Metelen Land station is located in Metelen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Münster–Enschede railway. The station is operated by the Metelen Land Railway Museum.

The station was opened by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) on 30 September 1875, along with the Münster–Enschede railway.[3][4] The station was originally called Metelen and received its current name on 1 October 1902.[3]

Metelen Land station is served by the following Regionalbahn service:[5]

Line Line name Route Operator Frequency
RB 64 Euregio-Bahn Enschede – Gronau (Westf) – Metelen Land – Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt – Altenberge – Münster (Westf) Zentrum Nord – Münster (Westf) DB Regio NRW 60 min
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
Ochtrup
toward Enschede
RB 64
Euregio-Bahn
toward Münster Hbf

Metelen Land Railway Museum

The station is operated by the Eisenbahn-Interessengemeinschaft Metelen e. V. (Metelen railway community of interest, EIG). It includes, among other things, the Metelen Land Railway Museum (German: Eisenbahnmuseum Metelen Land, which has a uniform and hat collection. The station’s fully functional mechanical signal box, a section of railway track with a crossover, a local and long distance barrier, homemade hand-operated inspection trolley, a salon car, workshop wagons, track maintenance equipment, a ticket printing machine, a weighing scale with card issuance, an industrial diesel locomotive and model railways can also be viewed.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Metelen Land station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "Line 2014: Nevinghof - Gronau (DB-Grenze)". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ↑ "Metelen Land station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  6. ↑ "Bahnhofsmuseum Metelen Land" (in German). Eisenbahn Interessengemeinschaft Metelen e.V. Retrieved 18 January 2014.