Staffel station

Staffel station (also called Limburg-Staffel) is a heritage-listed station in the Limburg district of Staffel in the German state of Hesse. The Limburg-Staffel–Siershahn railway branches off the Limburg–Altenkirchen railway at the station.

Staffel
Interchange station
General information
Location	Am Bahnhof 9, Limburg, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°23′58″N 8°02′47″E
Line(s)	Limburg-Staffel–Siershahn (0.0 km) Limburg–Altenkirchen (5.3 km)
Platforms	2
Construction
Architect	Heinrich Velde
Other information
Station code	5962[1]
DS100 code	FST[2]
IBNR	8005668
Category	6[1]
Fare zone	: 6008[3] VRM: 171 (RMV transitional tariff)[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 January 1870
Services
Preceding station Hessische Landesbahn Following station Elz Süd towards Siershahn RB 29 Diez Ost towards Limburg (Lahn) Elz towards Siegen Hbf RB 90

Station building

Staffel station: southern signal box

Staffel station: northern signal box

The station building was built in 1870 during the construction of the Limburg–Westerburg section of the Limburg–Altenkirchen railway (also called the Upper Westerwald Railway). The architect of the two-storey plaster building was probably Heinrich Velde. The neo-classical building is east of the tracks and originally had five parallel portals, but it was subsequently extended to the south. On the side facing the town it has a gable dormer.

To the north there is a low, plastered goods shed supported by timber trusses. A signal box built in 1890 for the Limburg-Staffel–Siershahn railway (also called the Lower Westerwald Railway) can also be seen. This small building has a ground storey built of brick, while the signal box floor is cantilevered and provided with large windows.

About 250 metres north of the station is another signal box built in 1925, also for the Lower Westerwald Railway. It is a small building with a brick ground floor, plastered first floor and a hip roof.

History

The section of the Upper Westerwald Railway between Staffel and Hadamar was opened on 1 January 1870 and the Lower Westerwald Railway was opened on 30 May 1884. The laying of a second track on the original section between Staffel and Limburg was completed on 10 December 1888, after the section from Hadamar to Westerburg had already been opened in October 1886.

Operations

Staffel station is located in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (Rhine-Main Transport Association, RMV). The station is a stop on Regionalbahn services RB 29 and RB 90. Both services run every two hours every day. Additional services run in the weekday peak hour. Staffel thus has rail links to Diez, Elz, Hadamar, Dornenburg, Westerburg, Altenkirchen, Au (Sieg), Montabaur and Siershahn, as well as central Limburg. The trip to Limburg takes 7 minutes.

Train class	Route	Frequency
RB 29 Unterwesterwaldbahn	Limburg – Staffel – Montabaur – Siershahn	Hourly
RB 90 (Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn)	Siegen – Betzdorf – Au – Altenkirchen (Westerw) – Westerburg – Staffel – Limburg	Hourly; every 2 hours on weekend

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Tarifinformationen 2021" (PDF). Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2021. p. 153. Retrieved 8 April 2021.
4. "Tarifwabenplan 2021" (PDF). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel. January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.

References

• Heinz Schomann (2005). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (ed.). Kulturdenkmäler in Hessen: Eisenbahn in Hessen. Teil 2: Eisenbahnbauten und -strecken 1839–1939 (in German). Konrad Theiss Verlag. pp. 414–417, 628–630. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.