Mellrichstadt station

Mellrichstadt station is a railway station operated by the Deutsche Bahn in the Lower Franconian town of Mellrichstadt in Germany.GeneralThe station is located on the Schweinfurt–Meiningen railway in southern Germany and, since the closure of Mühlfeld station, is the last stop on the Bavarian side of the border with Thuringia. From 1898, the station was the departure point for the Mellrichstadt–Fladungen railway which ran scheduled services until 1987. Since then the line has become a museum railway worked by the ‘’Rhön-Zügle’’ (“Little Rhön Train”).HistoryRail services began on the Meiningen–Schweinfurt route in 1874 and on the branch line to Fladungen in 1898. As a consequence of the division of Germany the Erfurt to Schweinfurt line was cut in 1945. From then on Mellrichstadt became the terminus for trains from Würzburg and Schweinfurt. Until the 1980s there were direct connexions from Munich Hauptbahnhof to Mellrichstadt; since then however the station has only been served by direct trains from Würzburg and Schweinfurt. Railway operations ceased on the Mellrichstadt–Fladungen branch in 1987. After the reunification of Germany the gap between Bavaria and Thuringia was closed and, after 46 years, Mellrichstadt is once again a through station. Since 1996 the Fladungen branch has been reactivated as a museum railway, services to all the way through to Mellrichstadt beginning again in 2000.