| Metelen Land | |
| Native Name Lang: | de |
| Symbol Location: | de |
| Type: | Through station |
| Borough: | Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 52.1622°N 7.2539°W |
| Platforms: | 2 |
| Zone: | Westfalentarif 51892[1] |
| Opened: | 30 September 1875 [2] |
| Website: | www.bahnhof.de |
Metelen Land station is located in Metelen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Münster–Enschede railway. The station is operated by the Metelen Land Railway Museum.
The station was opened by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) on 30 September 1875, along with the Münster–Enschede railway.[3] The station was originally called Metelen and received its current name on 1 October 1902.
Metelen Land station is served by the following Regionalbahn service:[4]
The station is operated by the Eisenbahn-Interessengemeinschaft Metelen e. V. (Metelen railway community of interest, EIG). It includes, among other things, the Metelen Land Railway Museum (German: Eisenbahnmuseum Metelen Land, which has a uniform and hat collection. The station's fully functional mechanical signal box, a section of railway track with a crossover, a local and long distance barrier, homemade hand-operated inspection trolley, a salon car, workshop wagons, track maintenance equipment, a ticket printing machine, a weighing scale with card issuance, an industrial diesel locomotive and model railways can also be viewed.[5]