Metelen Land 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.

Metelen Land
Through station
Metelen Land Railway Museum
General information
LocationSteinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates52°9′44″N 7°15′14″E
Line(s)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code4081 [1]
DS100 codeEMTE [2]
Category6 [1]
Fare zoneWestfalentarif: 51892[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened30 September 1875 [4]
Services
Preceding station DB Regio NRW Following station
Ochtrup
towards Enschede
 RB 64 Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt
towards Münster Hbf

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
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]

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
  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.
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