Kaufering station
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Kaufering
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| Location |
Kaufering, Bavaria Germany |
| Coordinates | 48°04′51″N 10°51′17″E / 48.080835°N 10.854595°ECoordinates: 48°04′51″N 10°51′17″E / 48.080835°N 10.854595°E |
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| Platforms | 5 |
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| Station code | 3142 |
| DS100 code | MKFG |
| IBNR | 8000195 |
| Category | 4 |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 November 1872 |
| Traffic | |
| Passengers | 7,000 |
Kaufering station is the station of the market town of Kaufering in the Upper Bavarian district of Landsberg am Lech. The station has five platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. It is used daily by about 140 trains operated by DB Regio and Regentalbahn and is an interchange station between the Allgäu Railway and the Bobingen–Landsberg am Lech railway (Lechfeld Railway).
Kaufering station is located south of Kaufering. The station area is bounded to the north by Bahnhofstrasse and to the south by Viktor-Frankl-Straße. The station building is located north of the tracks and has the address of Bahnhofstrasse 15.
Kaufering station was opened on 1 November 1872 with the completion of the Buchloe–Kaufering–Landsberg railway. The line from Munich to Buchloe was opened on 1 May 1873. The Lechfeld Railway via Bobingen to Augsburg was opened on 15 May 1877. Kaufering was now a railway junction. On 5 April 1893, signalling at the station was centralised, which meant that the levers for setting the switches and signals were brought together on a single a lever frame. A command signal box was installed in the station building; this was operated by the dispatcher and two other signalmen. The station was rebuilt in 1906 as part of the duplication of the Munich–Buchloe line and it received a pedestrian subway and platform canopies; a warming-up shed for locomotives and a waterworks were built. In World War II, the volume of traffic increased at the station because there was a munitions factory in the vicinity of the station. An air-raid shelter was built in 1944. The transport of all munitions and the concentration camp prisoners, who were forced to build the shelter, passed through Kaufering station. As a result, the station's network of tracks developed during the war and Kaufering now had 15 tracks. On 27 June 1979, the mechanical interlocking was replaced by a push button interlocking. The old waterworks was demolished in 1981. The extension of the platform tunnels to the south to the new park-and-ride facility was completed in 1997.
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