Limburg Süd station

Geschichte

Limburg Süd is a station in the town of Limburg an der Lahn, in the German state of Hesse. It is located in the Eschhöfer Feld in the district of Eschhofen at the 110.5 kilometre point of the Cologne-Frankfurt high-speed railway. Limburg Süd is the only station in Germany that is served only by Intercity-Express services.InfrastructureThe entrance building, which has 300 square metres of usable space, is located on platform 1 and houses the Deutsche Bahn travel centre, waiting benches and vending machines for beverages and confectioneries. There are no public toilets in the station itself, but there are some in the adjacent parking garage. Alternatively, there is a coin-operated toilet cubicle in the forecourt.The 180 square m area on the second floor has been largely empty since the opening of the station. However, it is now planned to establish a control room of DB Energie there.Railway tracksThe station has four tracks. The two middle tracks serve as through tracks and are built as slab tracks. ICE trains can pass through the station without decelerating at up to 300 km/h, while stopping trains running to the two outer platforms can pass over the turnouts at 100 km/h. Platform 4 (serving trains to Cologne) is reached over a bridge spanning the track, which has a staircase and a lift at each end.The 405m and 3.4 m wide platforms have canopies over a length of 300 m. An 11m and 36m roof spans all four tracks. North of the platform a crossover allows a track change from the western to the eastern track. Two km towards Frankfurt (113.0 km point), at the Lindenholzhausen crossover, it is possible to change tracks from the east to the west track. The crossovers are passable at 100 km/h while changing tracks. A sub-centre of the electronic interlocking system and an electric sub-station (which is also linked to the public network) have also been established in the area of the station.