Büdingen station

Büdingen station is a station on the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway in the town of Büdingen in the German state of Hesse. The station is located in the centre of the town. Büches-Düdelsheim station is also located in the municipality, in the district of Büches. The station is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.HistoryThe station was opened on 30 October 1870 as the end of the third section of the Lahn Gießen–Gelnhausen railway by the Upper Hessian Railway Company . Exactly a month later, the railway was extended to Gelnhausen.The entrance hall of the station is now listed as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. The station building is now privately owned and is no longer used for rail purposes. The condition has deteriorated and dilapidated.OperationsBüdingen is served only by the RB 36 service of the Hessische Landesbahn on the Gießen–Nidda–Glauburg-Stockheim–Gelnhausen route. The “house” platform is used by trains towards Gelnhausen. Track 2 is used by trains towards Nidda or Gießen. The service operates at 60-minute intervals in both directions, but is supplemented by an extra service towards Gelnhausen in the morning peak and after lunch and from Gelnhausen in the evening peak. Gießen can be reached in around 75 minutes by train, Frankfurt in about an hour.