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Gare de Ribeauvillé

Gare de Ribeauvillé (Ribeauvillé railway station) is a closed French railway station on the Strasbourg-Ville to Saint-Louis line, located at Ribeauvillé-Gare in the municipality of Guémar, four kilometres from the city centre. The "Ribeauvillé station" was put into service in 1840 by  Compagnie du chemin de fer de Strasbourg à Bâle (The Strasbourg to Basel Railway Company), when it opened the Benfeld to Colmar section for operation.  In 1841-1842, the Ribeauvillé station issued tickets to 18,891 passengers for a revenue of 25.905,75 francs, to which was added 1,563.70 francs for the baggage and goods service. This placed it in ninth place among the company's stations for the number of passengers, for passenger revenue and for baggage and goods revenue. In 1854, the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est succeeded the Compagnie du chemin de fer de Strasbourg à Bâle. In 1871, the station joined the network of the Imperial General Directorate of Alsace-Lorraine Railways (EL) following the French defeat in the Franco-German War of 1870 (and the Treaty of Frankfurt that followed). In 1879, the Ribeauvillé tramway was put into service. This line was originally metre gauge and was upgraded to standard gauge in 1894. In 1919, the station joined the network of  l'Administration des chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine (AL) (the Alsace and Lorraine Railway Administration), following the French victory in the First World War. In 1920 the station included a main building, a passenger yard, a service yard and outbuilding, two sidewalks to serve the two main tracks, a place for depositing sand and maintenance materials, wells with pumps and sidings. Then, in 1938, the railway company became part of Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français.SNCF with the other major companies. After the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine, it was the Deutsche Reichsbahn that managed the station during the Second World War, from 1940 until the Liberation 1944-1945. At the end of the Second World War, the station was bombed by the Allied air force and its passenger building was badly damaged. The Colmar-Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines line, including the Gare de Ribeauvillé, ceased passenger services in 1945, and the station was eventually closed. The station is today  served by buses. The passenger building, built in the early 1950s, is still present on the station site. An underground passage, accessible to pedestrians and cyclists, allows the crossing of the tracks. It replaces the old level crossing, vehicles pass through the diversion and the road bridge over the tracks


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