Oberbrechen station
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| Location | Frankfurter Str. 2, Oberbrechen, Brechen, Hesse Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 50°21′17″N 8°11′17″E / 50.354596°N 8.188047°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Main-Lahn Railway (km 58.3) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 4627[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | FOB[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8004518 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 6[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone |  : 6120[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1875 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Oberbrechen station is a station on the Main-Lahn Railway, which runs from Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof to Limburg (Lahn), in the Brechen suburb of Niederbrechen in the German state of Hesse. With Niederbrechen station, it is one of two stations in Brechen. The station is in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station and has two platform tracks.
History
[edit]A Haltepunkt (halt) was built in Oberbrechen with the construction of the Main-Lahn Railway in 1875. The entrance building was opened in 1879, which was built according to the same plan as the stations in Niederbrechen, Niederselters and Bad Camberg. The entrance building is a listed building.[4] A second platform track was built in 1913.
Operations
[edit]Oberbrechen station has two platform tracks, each with an outside platform. Except for the Regional-Express trains on the RE 20 line, all trains on the Main-Lahn Railway stop here.
- Track 1 on the main platform (height: 34 cm, length: 227 m):[5] RB 21/RB 22 to Limburg
- Track 2 on the island platform (height: 76 cm, length: 212 m):[5] RB 21 to Niedernhausen/Wiesbaden and RB 22 to Frankfurt
Services
[edit]Rail
[edit]The following services currently call at Limburg:[6][7]
| Line | Route | Comments |
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| RB 21 Main-Lahn Railway, Ländches Railway |
Wiesbaden Hbf – Niedernhausen (Taunus) – Oberbrechen – Limburg (Lahn) | Every 2 hours on Sundays and evenings |
| RB 22 Main-Lahn Railway | Frankfurt (Main) Hbf – Frankfurt-Höchst – Niedernhausen (Taunus) – Oberbrechen – Limburg (Lahn) | Hourly + additional services in the peak |
Bus
[edit]At Oberbrechen station there is a connection to the hourly LM-51 bus service towards Weilburg via Weyer, Münster and Weinbach. Route 285 goes to Limburg three times a day.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 147. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
- ^ "Limburg-Weilburg, Brechen, Oberbrechen, Frankfurter Straße 2, Bahnhofsgebäude" (in German). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ a b "Platform information for Oberbrechen station" (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
- ^ "627: Wiesbaden/Frankfurt - Niedernhausen - Limburg (Lahn)" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
- ^ "627: Limburg (Lahn) - Niedernhausen - Wiesbaden/Frankfurt" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 6 May 2018.
