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 / 52.16222°N 7.25389°E / 52.16222; 7.25389
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 LandSteinfurt-Burgsteinfurt – Altenberge – Münster (Westf) Zentrum Nord Münster (Westf) DB Regio NRW 60 min

Metelen Land Railway Museum

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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

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  1. ^ a b "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. ^ a b c "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.