Amstetten (Württemberg) station
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Amstetten (Württ)
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Amstetten station
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| Location | Am Bahnhof 1, Amstetten, Baden-Württemberg Germany |
| Coordinates | 48°34′41″N 9°52′22″E / 48.578056°N 9.872778°ECoordinates: 48°34′41″N 9°52′22″E / 48.578056°N 9.872778°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
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| Station code | 141 |
| DS100 code | TAM |
| IBNR | 8000577 |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 29 June 1850 |
Amstetten (Württemberg) station (officially Amstetten (Württ)) is located at line-kilometre 67.0 on the Fils Valley Railway (Filstalbahn) in Amstetten in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is at the top of the Geislinger Steige ("Geislingen climb"). The Amstetten–Gerstetten Local Railway (Lokalbahn Amstetten–Gerstetten) and the narrow gauge railway to Oppingen start here. No scheduled passenger services now run on either line. Deutsche Bahn treats the whole station as having three precincts for operational purposes. Amstetten (Württ) Lokalbahnhof ("station of the Local Railway") is operated as a section of the station, while Amstetten (Württ) (Schmalspurbahn) (“narrow gauge railway”) is operated as a separate station.
To town that developed around the railway station has over the decades become the largest settlement of the municipality of Amstetten.
The Württemberg railway Commission Michael Knoll was charged with the planning and implementation of the construction of the railway link between Stuttgart and Ulm. Knoll and his colleague Karl Etzel constructed the Geislinger Steige and foresaw that all trains would have to be assisted by pusher locomotives up this five and a half kilometre-long ramp in order to climb the Swabian Jura (Schwäbische Alb). The railway needed a station as close as possible above the Steige for the uncoupling of the pusher locomotives. Knoll chose a location about one kilometre west of Amstetten. The village at that time was, with some 300 inhabitants, one of the smaller settlements in the Oberamt (district) of Geislingen.
On 29 June 1850, Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahnen) opened the Geislingen–Ulm section. Amstetten station had two crossing tracks and a siding. A two-storey entrance building with arched windows on the ground floor faced the track towards Geislingen. It had a turntable and a shed for storing pusher locomotives.
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