Dillenburg station is a through station in the town of
Dillenburg
Dillenburg, officially Oranienstadt Dillenburg, is a town in Hesse's Gießen region in Germany. The town was formerly the seat of the old Dillkreis district, which is now part of the Lahn-Dill-Kreis.
The town lies on the German- Dutch holiday road ...
in the
German state of
Hesse
Hesse (, , ) or Hessia (, ; german: Hessen ), officially the State of Hessen (german: links=no, Land Hessen), is a state in Germany. Its capital city is Wiesbaden, and the largest urban area is Frankfurt. Two other major historic cities are Dar ...
. Immediately adjacent to the station is the central bus station, which is served by many bus lines connecting to the surrounding countryside. Together they form the public transport node of Dillenburg.
Train services
The following services currently call at Dillenburg:
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Main-Sieg-Express'' (RE 99) Siegen - Dillenburg - Gießen - Friedberg - Frankfurt (Main)
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Mittelhessen-Express'' (RB 40) Dillenburg - Gießen - Friedberg - Frankfurt (Main)
Services
Passengers
Dillenburg station has five platform tracks and is served by
Regional-Express
In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h (top speed often 160 km/h) as it calls at ...
services, the
Mittelhessen-Express,
Regionalbahn services and a pair of
EuroCity trains on the Siegen–Klagenfurt route. With occasional exceptions, trains run regularly from platforms, as follows:
Freight
The station is divided into two parts: the passenger station and the adjacent freight yard to its south. Here, regional freight traffic from Haiger and Dillenburg stations is consolidated and linked to the national transport network via the Wetzlar and Kreuztal freight yards. Dillenburg freight yard is also of great importance for the supply of the local
ThyssenKrupp Nirosta steel mill with steel coils, delivered every day except Thursday in a single train from the
Ruhr area (especially
Bochum).
History
Until the cessation of passenger service on the
Schelde Valley Railway between Dillenburg and
Wallau (Lahn) and the
Dietzhölz Valley Railway between Dillenburg and
Ewersbach, the station had another platform with tracks 9 and 10, from which trains departed for these two branch lines. Access to this platform is no longer possible.
In the past there had been some long-distances trains via Dillenburg. There was the
Interregio line between Frankfurt and
Münster
Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...
and once a day the train continued from Münster to
Norddeich Mole
Norddeich Mole is a railway station located in Norddeich, Lower Saxony, Germany. The station is located on the Emsland Railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn.
Norddeich Mole is a port for combined passenger and car ferrie ...
.
Local connections
The bus station is next to the railway station, which is served by all local and regional bus lines. There is a taxi stand and short-term parking next to the station. Further south there is long stay parking.
References
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Railway stations in Hesse
Buildings and structures in Lahn-Dill-Kreis