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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Metelen Land Railway Station

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. The station was originally called Metelen and received its current name on 1 October 1902.

Metelen Land station is served by the following Regionalbahn service:

Line Line name Route Operator Frequency
RB 64 Euregio-Bahn Enschede – Gronau (Westf) Metelen LandSteinfurt-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.

Notes

  1. ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ^ "Fahrtauskunft". Westfalentarif. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Metelen Land station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  5. ^ "Line 2014: Nevinghof - Gronau (DB-Grenze)". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  6. ^ "Metelen Land station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  7. ^ "Bahnhofsmuseum Metelen Land" (in German). Eisenbahn Interessengemeinschaft Metelen e.V. Retrieved 18 January 2014.