# Nidda station > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nidda_station > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Nidda_station.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidda_station > Source revision: 1286189937 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Nidda station** is a station on the [Gießen–Gelnhausen railway](/source/Gie%C3%9Fen%E2%80%93Gelnhausen_railway) in the town of [Nidda](/source/Nidda,_Hesse) in the German state of [Hesse](/source/Hesse). It is also at the end of the [Beienheim–Schotten railway](/source/Beienheim%E2%80%93Schotten_railway) from [Friedberg station](/source/Friedberg_station). The station is classified by [Deutsche Bahn](/source/Deutsche_Bahn) (DB) as a [category 4 station](/source/German_railway_station_categories).[2] ## History The station was opened on 29 June 1870 with the opening of the end of the second section of the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway ([Hungen](/source/Hungen_station)–Nidda) by the [Upper Hessian Railway Company](/source/Upper_Hessian_Railway_Company) (German: *Oberhessische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft*). At the end of November 1870, the line was extended to [Gelnhausen](/source/Gelnhausen_station). On 1 October 1897, the Beienheim–Schotten railway was opened from [Beienheim](/source/Beienheim_station) via Nidda to [Schotten](/source/Schotten). This made Nidda a major railway junction of the [Wetterau](/source/Wetterau). On 29 November 1959, passenger services on the Nidda–Schotten section were abandoned. Freight still operated until February 1960, when it was closed due to lack of demand. Its track was dismantled a few months afterwards. The station (except the “house” platform, platform 1) was fully modernised in 2008 and 2009. The platforms on tracks 2 and 4 and on tracks 5 and 7 were renewed and raised to a uniform height of 55 centimetres. ## Infrastructure The Nidda station precinct covers a large area. In addition to the numerous parked railcars of the Butzbach-Lich Railway Company (*Butzbach-Licher Eisenbah*n, BLE), which operated services here until 2005, loading sidings, an engine shed and the industrial sidings of a chemical plant are spread over a large area in the southern part of the precinct. ### Entrance building The entrance building is protected as a monument under the Hessian Heritage Act. ## Operations Services on weekends and public holidays were restored on the Gießen–Gelnhausen line at the timetable change on 14 December 2003. Operations on the [Beienheim–Schotten railway](/source/Beienheim%E2%80%93Schotten_railway) were managed by the Butzbach-Lich Railway Company until the timetable change of 2004/2005. Since the timetable change of 2005/2006, it has been operated by the [Hessische Landesbahn](/source/Hessische_Landesbahn) (Hessian State Railway, HLB), the parent company of the Butzbach-Lich Railway Company. Although the station is unstaffed now, there is a lot of traffic when the trains to and from Gelnhausen, Giessen and Friedberg meet and allow mutual transfers. Trains depart from platform 2 towards Giessen, from track 4 towards Gelnhausen and from tracks 5 and 7 towards Friedberg. Track 1 formerly served trains towards Schotten. ### Current services HLB operates trains every hour on the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway between Gießen and Gelnhausen using [GTW 2/6](/source/Stadler_GTW) sets. In the morning peak and after lunch an extra service runs to both Gießen and Gelnhausen, and in the evening peak an extra service runs from Gießen.[3] On the Beienheim–Schotten railway, service runs every hour via [Echzell](/source/Echzell), [Reichelsheim](/source/Reichelsheim_(Wetterau)) and Beienheim to Friedberg. During peak hours there are direct through services to and from [Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof](/source/Frankfurt_Hauptbahnhof).[4] Two of these [Stadt-Express](/source/Stadt-Express) (SE) services are operated by DB Regio with a [class 218 locomotive](/source/DB_Class_218) hauling refurbished [Silberling](/source/Silberling) carriages. One SE service and the [Regionalbahn](/source/Regionalbahn) services to and from Friedberg are operated by HLB using GTW 2/6 sets. Nidda station is served by some regional and city bus routes. ## Notes 1. ["Tarifinformationen 2021"](https://web.archive.org/web/20210515202010/https://www.rmv.de/c/fileadmin/documents/PDFs/_RMV_DE/Infomaterial/Fahrkarten-_und_Tarifinformationen/RMV-Tarifheft_2021_.pdf). [Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund](/source/Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund). 1 January 2021. p. 146. Archived from [the original](https://www.rmv.de/c/fileadmin/documents/PDFs/_RMV_DE/Infomaterial/Fahrkarten-_und_Tarifinformationen/RMV-Tarifheft_2021_.pdf) on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 8 April 2021. 1. ["Timetable for RB 36"](http://www.hlb-online.de/file/Fahrplanwechsel%202011/1112%20HLB%20Lfp%20RMV-36.pdf) (in German). Hessischen Landesbahn. Retrieved 12 July 2012.[dead link] 1. ["Timetable for RB 31/32"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120201011103/http://www.hlb-online.de/file/Fahrplanwechsel%202011/1112%20HLB%20Lfp%20RMV-31-32.pdf) (in German). Hessischen Landesbahn. Archived from [the original](http://www.hlb-online.de/file/Fahrplanwechsel%202011/1112%20HLB%20Lfp%20RMV-31-32.pdf) on 1 February 2012. Retrieved 12 July 2012. ## External links - ["Information on Nidda station, including photographs"](http://www.graf-vlad.de/inhalt/industriekultur/eisenbahn/lahn-kinzig-bahn/km-35,0-nidda/_inhalt-01.html) (in German). Retrieved 9 July 2012. - ["Impressions of the Nidda-Schotten railway"](http://www.vergessene-bahnen.de/Ex193k_1.htm) (in German). Retrieved 9 July 2012. --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Nidda station](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidda_station) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nidda_station?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.