<p><b>Oberlahnstein station</b> is, along with <a href="/pages/w/417539468342112"> Niederlahnstein</a> and Friedrichssegen, one of three stations in the town of <a href="/pages/w/104064756297132">Lahnstein</a> in the German state of <a href="/pages/w/112662335411638">Rhineland-Palatinate</a>. It is a through station with 3 platform tracks on the <a href="/pages/w/113201355396287">East Rhine Railway</a> and is located in the <a href="/pages/w/108577055832739">Oberlahnstein</a> district. The adjacent freight depot now forms only a <a href="/pages/w/108137882539577">brownfield</a> site.</p><h2>History</h2><p>The first section of the <a href="/pages/w/135499569848001">Lahn Valley Railway</a> was opened from Oberlahnstein to <a href="/pages/w/104051822963288">Bad Ems</a> on 1 July 1858, but shortly afterwards it was buried by a landslide. The <a href="/pages/w/124343067636512">Nassau Rhine Railway Company</a> (<i>Nassauische Rhein Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft</i>), opened in 1856, the first section of the <a href="/pages/w/113201355396287">Nassau Rhine Railway</a> (<i>Nassauische Rheinbahn</i>) from <a href="/pages/w/103103133063669">Wiesbaden</a> to <a href="/pages/w/121273698018235">Rudesheim</a>, which was authorised in 1853. Due to financial and technical difficulties, the line was not opened to Oberlahnstein until 1862. It was extended to <a href="/pages/w/417539468342112">Niederlahnstein</a> on 3 June 1864. The Stolzenfels–Oberlahnstein <a href="/pages/w/138664546158461">train ferry</a> connected the right and the left Rhine lines for two years from the second half of 1862 in order to connect the two lines.</p><p>A direct connection was opened from Niederlahnstein to Hohenrhein junction on the Lahn Valley Railway in 1879. This meant that Oberlahnstein station lost some of its importance. Around 1960, the entire East Rhine Railway from Cologne to Wiesbaden was electrified. The station building, which had been heavily damaged in World War II, was replaced by a new building in 1968.</p>