Metelen Land station
Railway station in Metelen, Germany
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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.
- Münster–Enschede (KBS 407)
- former Dorsten–Rheine (last KBS 284)
- former Burgsteinfurt–Borken
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| Location | Steinfurt, NRW Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 52°9′44″N 7°15′14″E | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 4081 [1] | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | EMTE [2] | ||||||||||
| Category | 6 [1] | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | Westfalentarif: 51892[3] | ||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 30 September 1875 [4] | ||||||||||
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The station was opened by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) on 30 September 1875, along with the Münster–Enschede railway.[4][5] The station was originally called Metelen and received its current name on 1 October 1902.[4]
Metelen Land station is served by the following Regionalbahn service:[6]
| Line | Line name | Route | Operator | Frequency |
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| RB 64 | Euregio-Bahn | Enschede – Gronau (Westf) – Metelen Land – Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt – Altenberge – Münster (Westf) Zentrum Nord – Münster (Westf) | DB Regio NRW | 60 min |
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.[7]