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Großen Buseck is a station in Buseck in the German state of Hesse. The station is on the Vogelsberg Railway (Gießen–Fulda railway) and has two platforms.

Großen Buseck
Through station
Großen-Buseck station
General information
Location	Bahnhofstr. 14, Buseck, Hesse Germany
Coordinates	50°36′19″N 8°46′59″E
Line(s)	Vogelsberg Railway (km 9.8) (KBS 635)
Platforms	2
Construction
Architectural style	Heimatstil
Other information
Station code	2336[1]
DS100 code	FGRB[2]
IBNR	8002409
Category	6[1]
Fare zone	: 1561[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	2 December 1869
Services
Preceding station   Hessische Landesbahn   Following station Gießen Licher Straße toward Limburg (Lahn) RB 45 Lahn Valley Railway Vogelsberg Railway Reiskirchen (Kr Gießen) toward Fulda

History

The Gießen–Grünberg section was opened on 2 December 1869 by the Upper Hessian Railway Company (Oberhessische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). The entrance building was built in Heimatstil (literally "home-style", related to the Swiss chalet style) and is now protected as a cultural monument under the Hessian Monument Protection Act (Hessisches Denkmalschutzgesetz) for historical and urban reasons.[4]

During an air raid on Großen-Buseck station on 18 March 1945, a construction train carrying forced labourers was hit. Four men on the construction train died. One of the forced labourers was hanged on a burnt-out carriage for alleged theft. A memorial stone in front of the station building commemorates this incident.

Transport services

Train fares at the station are set by the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV).

Rail services

The station has a platform next to the entrance building and an island platform. It has a train dispatcher who operates the level crossing barriers and blocks passenger access to the island platform depending on the traffic situation. Großen Buseck is served by Regionalbahn services of the Hessische Landesbahn, which operate services on the Vogelsberg Railway. Trains stop at hourly intervals, which is shortened to approximately 30 minutes in the peak.

The loading of timber at Grand Buseck station has been discontinued. However, there are still occasional freight trains to the Gross-Buseck industrial area.

Since the 2016/2017 timetable change on 11 December 2016, services on the Vogelsberg Railway (formerly RB 35) and the subsequent Lahn Valley Railway (formerly RB 25) have run as RB 45.[5]

Line	Route	Interval
RB 45	Regionalbahn Limburg (Lahn) – Eschhofen – Weilburg – Wetzlar – Gießen – Großen Buseck – Grünberg (Oberhess) – Mücke (Hess) – Alsfeld (Oberhess) – Fulda	Hourly (+ extra trains in peak hour)

Buses

Großen-Buseck is connected by the bus network of the Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund: GI-25 to Gießen, GI-27 to Fernwald, GI-26 to Reiskirchen and GI-25 to Grünberg.

References

Sources

• Karlheinz Lang (2010). Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen (ed.). Landkreis Gießen II. Buseck, Fernwald, Grünberg, Langgöns, Linden, Pohlheim, Rabenau (in German). Stuttgart: Theiss. ISBN 978-3-80622178-7.
• Heinz Schomann (2005). Eisenbahn in Hessen. Teil 2, Teilband 1: Eisenbahnbauten und -strecken 1839–1939 (in German). Stuttgart: Landesamt für Denkmalpflege Hessen. pp. 126 ff. ISBN 3-8062-1917-6.

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