Dillenburg station

Dillenburg station
Reception building with Regionalbahn service to Marburg in 2002
Operations
Category	4
Type	Through station
Platforms in use	5
DS100 code	FDIL
Construction and location
Location	Dillenburg
State	Hesse
Country	Germany
50°44′6″N 8°17′40″E / 50.735°N 8.29444°E / 50.735; 8.29444
Route information
Dill Railway (KBS 445) Heller Valley Railway (KBS 462)
List of railway stations in Hesse

Freight train from Dillenburger freight yard to the steel works

Dillenburg station is a through station in the town of Dillenburg in the German state of Hesse. Immediately adjacent to the station is the central bus station, which is served by many bus lines connecting to the surrounding countryside. Together they form the public transport node of Dillenburg.

Train services

The following services currently call at Dillenburg:

• Main-Sieg-Express Siegen - Dillenburg - Gießen - Friedberg - Frankfurt (Main)
• Mittelhessen-Express Dillenburg - Gießen - Friedberg - Frankfurt (Main)

Series	Operator	Route	Material	Frequency	Notes
EC62	DB/OBB	Siegen - Dillenburg - Herborn - Wetzlar - Gießen - Bad Nauheim - Frankfurt (Main) Hbf - Damstadt Hbf - Bensheim - Weinheim - Heidelberg Hbf - Stuttgart Hbf - Ulm Hbf - Günzburg - Augsburg Hbf - München Hbf - München Ost - Rosenheim - Prien am Chiemsee - Traunstein - Freilassing - Salzburg Hbf - Golling-Abtenau - Bischofshofen - Sankt Johann im Pongau - Schwarzach-St. Veit - Dorfgastein - Bad Hofgastein - Bad Gastein - Mallnitz-Obervellach - Spittal-Millstätter See - Villach Hbf - Velden/Wörther See - Pörtschach/Wörther See - Krumpendorf/Wörther See - Klagenfurt Hbf		1x per day

Preceding station		DB AG		Following station
Siegen Terminus		IC/EC 62 Siegen-Klagenfurt		Herborn toward Salzburg Hbf
Sechshelden toward Au (Sieg)		RB 95 Sieg-Dill-Bahn		Terminus
Sechshelden toward Betzdorf (Sieg)		RB 96 Hellertal-Bahn		Terminus
Terminus		RB 40 Mittelhessen-Express		Niederscheld Süd toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Preceding station		Hessische Landesbahn		Following station
Haiger toward Siegen		RE 40/99 Main-Sieg-Express		Herborn toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf

Services

Passengers

Dillenburg station has five platform tracks and is served by Regional-Express services, the Mittelhessen-Express, Regionalbahn services and a pair of EuroCity trains on the Siegen–Klagenfurt route. With occasional exceptions, trains run regularly from platforms, as follows:

Track	Direction
1	Mittelhessen-Express to Gießen and Frankfurt, Heller Valley Railway to Betzdorf
2	Mittelhessen-Express to Gießen and Frankfurt
3	Main-Sieg-Express to Gießen and Frankfurt
4	Main-Sieg-Express to Siegen
5	Sieg-Dill-Bahn to Siegen and Au (Sieg)

Line	Route	Frequency
EC 62	Siegen – Dillenburg – Frankfurt Hbf – Stuttgart Hbf – Munich Hbf – Salzburg Hbf – Klagenfurt Hbf	one train pair

Freight

The station is divided into two parts: the passenger station and the adjacent freight yard to its south. Here, regional freight traffic from Haiger and Dillenburg stations is consolidated and linked to the national transport network via the Wetzlar and Kreuztal freight yards. Dillenburg freight yard is also of great importance for the supply of the local ThyssenKrupp Nirosta steel mill with steel coils, delivered every day except Thursday in a single train from the Ruhr area (especially Bochum).

History

Until the cessation of passenger service on the Schelde Valley Railway between Dillenburg and Wallau (Lahn) and the Dietzhölz Valley Railway between Dillenburg and Ewersbach, the station had another platform with tracks 9 and 10, from which trains departed for these two branch lines. Access to this platform is no longer possible.

Local connections

The bus station is next to the railway station, which is served by all local and regional bus lines. There is a taxi stand and short-term parking next to the station. Further south there is long stay parking.

Coordinates: 50°44′6″N 8°17′40″E / 50.735°N 8.29444°E / 50.735; 8.29444