Oberbrechen station

Oberbrechen
Through station
General information
Location	Frankfurter Str. 2, Oberbrechen, Brechen, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°21′17″N 8°11′17″E / 50.354596°N 8.188047°E / 50.354596; 8.188047
Line(s)	Main-Lahn Railway (km 58.3)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	4627[1]
DS100 code	FOB[2]
IBNR	8004518
Category	6[1]
Fare zone	: 6120[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1875
Services
Preceding station DB Regio Mitte Following station Niederbrechen towards Limburg (Lahn) RB 22 Niederselters towards Frankfurt (Main) Hbf Preceding station Hessische Landesbahn Following station Niederbrechen towards Limburg (Lahn) RB 21 Niederselters towards Wiesbaden Hbf
Location Oberbrechen Location within Hesse

Oberbrechen station is a station on the Main-Lahn Railway, which runs from Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof to Limburg (Lahn), in the Brechen suburb of Niederbrechen in the German state of Hesse. With Niederbrechen station, it is one of two stations in Brechen. The station is in the network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV) and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station and has two platform tracks.

A Haltepunkt (halt) was built in Oberbrechen with the construction of the Main-Lahn Railway in 1875. The entrance building was opened in 1879, which was built according to the same plan as the stations in Niederbrechen, Niederselters and Bad Camberg. The entrance building is a listed building.^[4] A second platform track was built in 1913.

Oberbrechen station has two platform tracks, each with an outside platform. Except for the Regional-Express trains on the RE 20 line, all trains on the Main-Lahn Railway stop here.

• Track 1 on the main platform (height: 34 cm, length: 227 m):^[5] RB 21/RB 22 to Limburg
• Track 2 on the island platform (height: 76 cm, length: 212 m):^[5] RB 21 to Niedernhausen/Wiesbaden and RB 22 to Frankfurt

The following services currently call at Limburg:^[6][7]

At Oberbrechen station there is a connection to the hourly LM-51 bus service towards Weilburg via Weyer, Münster and Weinbach. Route 285 goes to Limburg three times a day.