Lauterecken-Grumbach station
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Lauterecken-Grumbach
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Battery multiple unit of classes 515 and 815 in Lauterecken-Grumbach station (1986)
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| Location |
Lauterecken, Rhineland-Palatinate Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°39′14″N 7°35′27″E / 49.65389°N 7.59083°ECoordinates: 49°39′14″N 7°35′27″E / 49.65389°N 7.59083°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 3605 |
| DS100 code | SLKG |
| Category | 6 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 May 1904 |
Lauterecken-Grumbach station is the station of the town of Lauterecken in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station and has two platform tracks. The station is located in the network area of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Neckar (Rhine-Neckar Transport Association, VRN) and it is in fare zone 793. Its address is Bahnhofstraße 1.
The station’s name reflects the fact that the station also originally served Grumbach, which is a few kilometres away. It was opened on 1 May 1904 as a junction station on the Glan Valley Railway (Glantalbahn), which was completed on the same day over its full-length from Homburg to Bad Münster, and the Lauter Valley Railway, which starts in Kaiserslautern and was opened in 1883. The Glan Valley Railway was shut down gradually around Lauterecken from the mid-1980s, and since then the station has only been the terminus of the Lauter Valley Railway. Since 2000, it has been a station on the draisine operation on the former Glan Valley Railway between Altenglan and Staudernheim.
The station is located on the northwestern outskirts of Lauterecken. It has parking, a bus stop and toilets. Barrier-free access is only partially available.
The now disused Glan Valley Railway ran through only on the northwestern edge the town of Lauterecken. The still operational Lauter Valley Railway passes by the south-eastern suburbs, which it bypasses in an arc to Lauterecken-Grumbach station, where it formerly connected with the Glan Valley Railway.
At the opening of the Lauter Valley Railway in 1883, a station was opened on the southwestern outskirts of Lauterecken. When choosing its location, care was taken that it was feasible to build a connecting line to the already proposed Glan Valley Railway.
The station remained well-situated after the opening of the northern section of the line later called the Glan Valley Railway to Odernheim in 1896, as a direct extension of the Lauter Valley Railway. In the same year Lauterecken halt (Haltepunkt Lauterecken) was built as a request stop between Friedhofsweg and the current federal highway 270 to improve access to northern Lauterecken and the surrounding communities. It had a small building to serve passenger services and operations.
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