Bergisch Gladbach train station
| Bergisch Gladbach | |
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 View over the
Bergisch Gladbach train station with the S-Bahn |
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| Location in the network | Terminus |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 1 |
| abbreviation | KBGG |
| IBNR | 8000899 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | December 15, 1868 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bergisch Gladbach |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Bergisch Gladbach |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 '29 " N , 7 ° 7' 28" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Bergisch Gladbach Station is a railhead and the traffic control center for the district center of the city of Bergisch Gladbach in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until 1965 it was called Berg. Gladbach city center . Since June 1, 1975 it has been the terminus of the S 11 S-Bahn line coming from Cologne / Düsseldorf and also the city's freight station . It is located on the electrified western part of the Cologne-Mülheim-Lindlar railway line . The station falls under category 5.
The station has a total of seven passable tracks, one of which has a platform and overhead line for S-Bahn traffic, the other tracks are used exclusively for freight traffic . In the station entrance there is a historic mechanical signal box , which has been in operation since 1911. Adjacent to the S-Bahn platform is a bus station with a total of 14 bus bays , which is served by 20 bus routes during the day and 6 night bus routes.
history
The station was opened together with the Cologne-Mülheim-Bergisch Gladbach line in 1868. In 1870 the line from the entrance of the Bergisch Gladbach train station to Bensberg was expanded . Therefore, trains to Bensberg had to go crazy at Bergisch Gladbach station. Due to the increased size of the station, the signal box was opened in 1890 at the station entrance in an island location between the line to Cologne-Mülheim, the line to Bensberg and the Tannenbergstrasse level crossing .
In 1912 one was connecting curve in front of the terminal station Bergisch Gladbach built. In addition, a second station was built in the Gronau district southwest of the old terminal station as a pure passenger station, now a through station . Passenger trains now ran from Mülheim directly over the new connecting curve to the new station and on to Bensberg. The terminus in the city center, where there were also several sidings in the surrounding factories, was from now on only served by freight trains.
After the opening of the new, converted terminal station, now Bergisch Gladbach Stadtmitte , in 1950, passenger trains again passed through today's station, which now had a new reception building. For this reason, the connecting curve was no longer used and was finally dismantled in the early 1960s.
The terminus station was thus until 1912 and since September 1965 has been the only passenger station in Bergisch Gladbach. Until 1965, passenger trains stopped at both stations, Bergisch Gladbach Stadtmitte (old and today's terminus) and Bergisch Gladbach (Gronau) south of the Gleisdreieck. Passenger train traffic between Bergisch Gladbach and Bensberg was stopped on September 29, 1965, which also ended the service life of the southern station in Gronau.
When the S-Bahn was set up, the line between Cologne-Mülheim and Bergisch Gladbach was electrified in 1974/75. In Bergisch Gladbach station itself, however, electrification was limited to the platform track used for S-Bahn traffic and another siding at the end of the platform. After the siding was closed, the overhead line was removed again, so that the platform track is now the only electrified track in the station.
Towards the end of 2011, various unneeded tracks and switches were dismantled in the northern area of the freight yard and in the entrance to the station. On Johann-Wilhelm-Lindlar-Straße, a chargeable municipal car park was created on the vacated site in autumn 2014.
| line | course | Tact |
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| S 11 |
D-Airport Terminal - D-Unterrath - D-Derendorf - D-Zoo - D-Wehrhahn  - Düsseldorf Hbf - D-Friedrichstadt - D-Bilk - D-Völklinger Straße - D-Hamm - NE Rheinparkcenter - NE Am Kaiser - Neuss Hbf - Neuss Süd - Norf - NE-Allerheiligen - Nievenheim - Dormagen - Dormagen - Chempark - Cologne-Worringen - K-Blumenberg - K-Chorweiler North - K-Chorweiler - K-Volkhovener Weg - K-Longerich - K-Geldernstraße / Parkgürtel - K-Nippes - K-Hansaring - Cologne Hbf - K-Messe / Deutz - K-Buchforst - K-Mülheim - K-Holweide - K-Dellbrück - Duckterath - Bergisch Gladbach
Status: timetable change December 2019 |
20 min |
Freight transport
Of the formerly numerous siding near the train station, only the siding of the M-real Zanders paper mill in the Gohrsmühle industrial park is used today. Since December 20, 2012, block trains from self-unloading wagons with coal for the company's own power plant have been running only irregularly. The delivery of cellulose with block trains directly to the plant has since been completely discontinued, as has the weekly operation of the container terminal of the BGE logistics center in the Zinkhütte industrial park over the route from Bergisch Gladbach station in the direction of Bensberg, which was ultimately just a station track of Bergisch Gladbach station. The reason for the strong reduction in freight traffic is the small amount of goods left by the only user, the M-Real Zanders paper mill, for which trucking is now cheaper.
Since then, the freight trains to Bergisch Gladbach have been operated exclusively by DB Cargo Germany ; Until the end of 2012, the ports and goods traffic Cologne (HGK) in particular drove the trains. Since neither of Bergisch Gladbach freight station (including headshunt ) nor the Harbor Cologne-Niehl are electrified, freight trains to Bergisch Gladbach always with a diesel locomotive covered, so the existing overhead line can not be used. DB Cargo mostly uses class 290 shunting locomotives for this purpose .
There used to be sidings to the West industrial estate (west of the station) and to the Isover plant , which borders the station directly to the north and once even had its own small freight yard. Both track connections have now largely been dismantled; the track to the Isover site has ended at a buffer stop immediately behind the fence since 2012 .
Modifications and plans
Platform adaptation
From January 2017, the platform roof of the platform track was rebuilt with a length of 45 m. The track was lowered by 20 cm in order to enable stepless access to the multiple units of the ET-423 series used on the S 11 with an entry height of 96 cm. For this, the overhead line had to be adjusted and the entrance signal relocated. The barrier-free transition to the bus bays was preserved through the measure.
Dual track
First of all, the Tannenbergstrasse level crossing at the station entrance is to be replaced by one or more road tunnels. Since only one platform track is available for S-Bahn traffic and the entire S-Bahn route in the Bergisch Gladbach area is also single-track, the current timetable every 20 minutes is the highest possible. In order to be able to offer the 10-minute intervals required during rush-hour traffic , it would be necessary to build another platform at least at Bergisch Gladbach train station and to electrify a second track. The ideal case, however, would be to double-track the line to Cologne-Dellbrück train station , where the double-track section begins or ends today, including the Duckterath stop . The planum , including bridges and crossings, is already designed for a second track, however, according to plans, the second platform track is to be built in Bergisch Gladbach in the area of the new bus station. The main S-Bahn line in downtown Cologne is already at the limit of its capacity, so that expansion measures would also be necessary here. So far, however, these conversions have failed due to funding. For the construction of the second track, according to the original plans, the mechanical signal box on Tannenbergstrasse was to be replaced by an electronic signal box remote-controlled from Duisburg . In the meantime, by order of the State Ministry for Building, Housing, Urban Development and Transport NRW, the signal box has been entered in the list of architectural monuments in Bergisch Gladbach under No. 172 . The further planning is therefore open again.
As part of the double-track expansion of the Cologne-Dellbrück - Bergisch Gladbach section, decided at the meeting of representatives of the federal government, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and Deutsche Bahn on March 31, 2010, there are also plans to expand Bergisch Gladbach station by 2019.
literature
- Gerhard Peter Hänsel: Step by step . The railways in the Sülztal and Aggertal. A regional historical investigation. History association for the community of Rösrath and the surrounding area, Rösrath 1986, ISBN 3-922413-21-3 , ( series of the history association Rösrath eV vol. 15 = 86, 1)
- Sascha Koch, Horst Kowalski and others: Railways in Oberberg and the history of the Dieringhausen depot. Galunder Verlag, Nümbrecht 2005, ISBN 3-89909-050-0
- Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Sülztalbahn. History and stories of the route Cologne-Bergisch Gladbach-Rösrath-Untereschbach-Immekeppel-Lindlar , series of the history association Rösrath eV Vol. 42 ISBN 978-3-922413-65-3
Web links
- Stadtverkehrsgesellschaft Bergisch Gladbach accessed on November 27, 2014
- Bergisch Gladbach station, platform information accessed on November 27, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Query of the course book route 450.11 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Station price list 2018 (PDF; 3.78 MB) DB Station & Service , March 8, 2018, accessed on August 28, 2018 .
- ↑ A dead track in the city center. (accessed again on January 13, 2013)
- ^ Railway report. Issue 5/2017, p. 50.
- ↑ Chronology of monument protection of the signal box Tannenbergstraße
- ↑ Signal box becomes a planning hurdle. (accessed on April 5, 2014)
- ↑ S 11: Draft horse for expansion in Cologne. (accessed again on November 24, 2017)