Finnentrop station

Finnentrop
Deutsche Bahn
Junction station

Finnentrop station
Location Iserlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°10′22″N 7°57′52″E / 51.17278°N 7.96444°E / 51.17278; 7.96444Coordinates: 51°10′22″N 7°57′52″E / 51.17278°N 7.96444°E / 51.17278; 7.96444
Line(s)
Platforms 4
Other information
Station code 1793[1]
DS100 codeEFP[2]
IBNR8000102
Category4[1]
History
Opened 6 August 1861 [3]
Services
Preceding station   Abellio Rail NRW   Following station
Plettenberg
toward Essen Hbf
RE 16
Ruhr-Sieg-Express
toward Siegen
Plettenberg
toward Hagen Hbf
RB 91
Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn
Lennestadt-Grevenbrück
toward Siegen
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
TerminusRB 92
Biggesee-Express
Heggen
toward Olpe

Finnentrop station is a railway junction on the Ruhr–Sieg railway between Hagen and Siegen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station is located on the territory of the municipality of Finnentrop in the district of Olpe. The Bigge Valley Railway to Olpe branches off here and it was also the start of the Finnentrop–Wennemen railway, which was closed in 1996. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[1]

History

Finnentrop station was established during the construction of the Ruhr–Sieg line from 1858 to 1861 and the station buildings were completed in 1860.[4] Located in the village of Neubrucke, it was called Finnentrop after a nearby estate and the district was given the same name in 1908.[5] The first entrance building was built in 1870. This was replaced by a new building in 1898 because of increasing traffic and then served until its demolition in 1937 as housing for railway families.[4] A locomotive depot was built in the 1870s in conjunction with the building of the branch lines to Olpe and Wennemen. However, only one locomotive was stationed there in 1892.[5] Together with Altenhundem, the station gradually developed into one of the operating centres of the Ruhr–Sieg line. In 1914, after the closure of an on-site locomotive depot at the Finnentrop steel works in 1901, the station’s locomotive depot became an independent depot.[6] In the First World War, a field kitchen was set up next to the station and a medical team was established in the station waiting room.[7] After World War II, 660 people were employed at the station.[8]

In 2002, the Deutsche Bahn AG installed a ticket machine in the station building. Two years later, the municipality took over the building. As part of the modernisation program for stations, North Rhine-Westphalia invested about €1 million in the remodeling of the station. In late 2007, during the first phase the station building was demolished[9] and the station forecourt was completely redesigned. A citizens' initiative had previously made proposals for new uses of the building.[10][11] The main platform was raised to 76 cm high and a multi-use platform was built: buses now stop directly opposite the trains now, making a barrier-free transition possible. More construction is planned from 2014.

Infrastructure

The station building demolished in 2007

A four road roundhouse was built in 1874.[12] It was expanded after World War II. Around 1921, a 20-metre turntable was added.[13] It was partially destroyed in 1944 and it was closed in 1982. On 6 February 2010, the roundhouse collapsed, when it was overloaded with snow. The carriage-maintenance facility, which had developed after the First World War[6] was also closed.[12] The walls of the roundhouse, however, have been retained.[14] The depot also had a decontamination facility for cleaning and disinfecting livestock wagons.[6]

The first mechanical signal box (code name: Fr) was commissioned at the marshalling yard in 1913 and three more were subsequently commissioned: Fs in 1924, Ff in 1928 and Fn in 1937. In 2002, the last three were replaced by an electronic interlocking built by Siemens.[15] The raised signal box Ff, which is heritage-listed[16] but threatened by demolition, is still preserved and the Fn and Fs signal boxes are heritage-listed by the municipality of Finnentrop.

Operations

Finnentrop station is served by hourly by the following passenger services:[17]

Line Line name Route Frequency
RE 16 Ruhr-Sieg-Express Essen – Bochum – Witten – Hagen – Letmathe – Finnentrop – Siegen) 60 min
RB 91 Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn Hagen – Letmathe – Finnentrop – Siegen 60 min
RB 92 Biggesee-Express Iserlohn – Attendorn – Olpe 60 min

Several regional bus lines operate from the central bus station.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ "Finnentrop station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  4. 1 2 Franz Bitter. Finnentrop (in German). p. 66.
  5. 1 2 Franz Bitter. Finnentrop (in German). p. 7.
  6. 1 2 3 Franz Bitter. Finnentrop (in German). p. 67.
  7. ↑ Franz Bitter. Finnentrop (in German). p. 17.
  8. ↑ Franz Bitter. Finnentrop (in German). p. 68.
  9. ↑ "Abriss des Empfangsgebäudes am Bahnhof schon im November". Westfalenpost (in German). 23 October 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "Bahnhof Finnentrop soll zum Schmuckstück werden". Sauerlandkurier (in German). 15 April 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  11. ↑ "Website of the citizens' initiative" (in German). Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  12. 1 2 "Ringlokschuppen in Finnentrop eingestürzt" (in German). derwesten.de. 8 February 2010. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  13. ↑ "Reichshaushalt für 1921" (PDF; 723 kB) (in German). Journal of the Central Building Administration. 27 April 1921. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  14. ↑ Mathias Wirths. "Alter Lokschuppen, Finnentrop" (PDF; 277 kB) (in German). fh-dortmund.de. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  15. ↑ "List of German signal boxes" (in German). Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  16. ↑ "Die Bedeutung des Reiter-Stellwerks: BI will Abriss nicht hinnehmen" (in German). DerWesten.de. 30 January 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  17. ↑ "Finnentrop station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. 4 August 2013.

References

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