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In the following years, rail traffic was reduced by the growth in the use of cars. The
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Metzingen. Farmers mainly loaded fruit, vegetables,
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With the recommencement of passenger services on the Erms Valley
Railway using DMUs on 1 August 1999, Metzingen once again became a railway junction. Since the timetable change on 13 December 2009, a pair of InterCity trains has stopped in Metzingen. The unused goods shed was demolished in June 2011
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Metzingen post office on 1 March 1889. The post office left the entrance building in 1893 and moved into the separate post office building that had been built to the north of the entrance building.
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Metzingen. The station's operations area received a
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507:Location in Germany
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1178:Categories
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879:Reutlingen
875:Metzingen
871:Plochingen
792:Frequency
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673:Südbahnhof
628:Reutlingen
322:Herrenberg
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88:48°32′20″N
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383:Heilbronn
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252:Nürtingen
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91:9°17′24″E
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863:Mannheim
843:Solingen
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224:Services
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855:Koblenz
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811:Leipzig
807:Dresden
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197:Website
171:8004009
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212:Opened
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988:RB 63
902:IRE 6
859:Mainz
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1167:2016
1135:ISBN
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