Aachen north station
| Aachen North | |
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 Former reception building, now a restaurant and beverage shop
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| Operating point type | railway station |
| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| opening | 1875 |
| Conveyance | 2007 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Franz Ewerbeck |
| location | |
| Place / district | Aachen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 46 ′ 55 " N , 6 ° 6 ′ 11" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The station Aachen North was a railway station in the northern district of Aachen, in the commercial area Greenway between Jülich Street and Green Lane. It was built in 1875 by what was then the Aachen Industrial Railway on the initiative and with the support of the Association for Hard Coal Construction in the Wurmrevier as a terminal station. The reception building for passenger traffic was built at the junction of Jülicher Strasse / Lombardenstrasse according to plans by the architect Franz Ewerbeck and was officially inaugurated in 1882.
The station was the starting point of the Aachen Nord – Jülich railway with a connection to the Haaren – Aachen – Rothe Erde railway
history
After several large companies had settled in the newly developed industrial district between Jülicher Strasse and Grüner Weg in the mid-19th century, including the Talbot wagon factory in 1860 , this area urgently needed to be connected to the railroad. On the initiative of local entrepreneurs and the association, this connection was finally implemented by the Aachener Industriebahn, later the Aachen-Jülich Railway Company, by 1875, and a first station was built near the wagon factory, which initially only served as a freight station . From here, the industrial goods were a small Gleisdreieck in the area of today's Prague ring and black path in either direction Würselen and Hoengen and from 1880 until after Jülich or station Aachen-Rothe Erde with connections to the main route towards Cologne and Belgium transported become. In addition to Talbot, the major works of the mechanical engineering company Krantz and von Garbe, Lahmeyer & Co., as well as the Piedboeuf boiler factory, the Göbbelgasse electricity company and the old slaughterhouse in Aachen on Metzgerstrasse benefited from this .
Soon after the line was opened, the increasing need for passenger transport was taken into account and the tracks were extended by a few hundred meters in the direction of the Jülicher Strasse / Lombardenstrasse intersection, where a station building designed by Franz Ewerbeck was built and inaugurated in 1882. From there it was possible to transfer to the vehicles of the Aachener and Burtscheider horse-drawn railway company , the later Aachener Kleinbahn-Gesellschaft (from 1894) or ASEAG (from 1942). Since the opening of Aachen's only terminus station, both passenger and freight traffic has been operated on the route in the direction of Würselen / Hoengen or Jülich, whereas the connection to Rothe Erde was used exclusively for freight traffic, except for a short period in 1875/76.
In its first years the station was named the industrial railway and after its nationalization in 1887 in Aachen Cölnthor and before the First World War, it was renamed Aachen Nord .
During the Second World War , the station building was badly destroyed. In 1950 the Deutsche Bundesbahn had a new one built, which has been preserved to this day. Three tracks, two on a covered platform for passenger traffic and one track for freight traffic, ended with passenger traffic at the station building in recent years. Signals and points of the station were operated by the local signal box Ano. Finally, in connection with changes in the urban infrastructure, passenger traffic was discontinued: between 1978 and 1980, the roof was first removed and the reception building was given to a car dealer as an office. The platform could only be reached via a narrow passage before passenger traffic was finally stopped on May 30, 1980 and then the tracks used for passenger traffic were dismantled. Later, the area was enclosed with a wall and instead of the car dealer, a beverage wholesaler moved into the extensions. The station building was converted into a restaurant and the signal box was demolished.
At the same time as the end of passenger traffic, freight traffic in the direction of Würselen was also discontinued, but the old freight station and the single-lane connection in the direction of Rothe Erde were retained. In 2007 the line was shut down and since then has been a station track of the Rothe Erde station, which means that Aachen Nord station is no longer an independent operating point. Today it is still used as an industrial track by Talbot Services GmbH, the successor organization to the Talbot wagon factory.
Web links
- Portrait of Aachen Nord station on the pages of gessen.de
- Description of the KAN operating point in the NRWbahnarchiv
Individual evidence
- ^ Roland Keller: The rail connection between Aachen-Rothe Erde and Aachen-Nord. In: guidorademacher.de. Retrieved October 9, 2018 .
- ^ Line Aachen North - Aachen Rothe Erde , profile on vonderruhren.de
- ↑ List of the disused lines in North Rhine-Westphalia (since 01.01.1994). ( XLSX ; 16 KB) In: eba.bund.de. Federal Railway Office , September 11, 2017, accessed on October 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Tracks in service facilities on DB networks