page_title: Friedberg–Mücke railway
section_title: Prospects
hierarchical_section_title: Friedberg–Mücke railway / Prospects
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Bahnhof Wölfersheim-Södel
context_page_description: The Friedberg–Mücke railway is a railway that was opened in 1890/97 in the Wetterau and Vogelsberg regions in the German state of Hesse. Sections of the line are also called the Horlofftalbahn and the Seentalbahn. It originally connected three major railways that run from Giessen, namely:
  the Main–Weser Railway,
  the Gießen–Gelnhausen railway,
  and the Vogelsberg Railway.
  Today only the eleven kilometre-long section to Wölfersheim operates as a feeder line to the regional node of Friedberg, where it connects to the rest of the railway network and, importantly for commuters from the Wetterau, Frankfurt.
  The Beienheim–Schotten railway, also called the Horlofftalbahn, which branches off in Beienheim to Nidda, opened on the same day and is still operating.
context_section_description: There are plans to reactivate the decommissioned Wölfersheim-Hungen section. The tracks are complete and apart from minor weathering still in relatively good condition. Despite the blockage of the line at the termini, the signal technology was still in operation; for example, the Wölfersheim semaphore signals were still actively lit until Wölfersheim was rebuilt into a halt in 2008. Nevertheless, at many of the already neglected level crossings, the safety technology and tracks would have to be fundamentally renewed or relocated.
caption: Buffer stop in Wölfersheim-Södel
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