Bonn-Mehlem train station
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | KBM |
| IBNR | 8001085 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | October 15, 1855 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Bonn-Mehlem |
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| City / municipality | Bonn |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 40 '9 " N , 7 ° 10' 54" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Bonn-Mehlem station is a through station in the Lannesdorf district of Bonn . It has three platform tracks and is located on the left-hand side of the Rhine south of Bonn's main train station , the station is also connected to local public transport and has parking spaces in the immediate vicinity of which there are shops for travel needs.
The station is operated by DB Station & Service , which classifies it in station category 4 .
history
On January 21, 1856, the section of the left Rhine route between Bonn and Rolandseck was opened to traffic. During this time, the train station was also opened in the area of the then independent municipality of Lannesdorf, which, however, was named after the neighboring municipality of Mehlem due to its greater popularity and tourist importance . At the beginning of the 1870s , the station building was enlarged by additions and superstructures; at that time it also housed the Mehlem post office. Due to the incorporation of Bad Godesberg into the city of Bonn, Mehlem station was renamed Bonn-Mehlem in 1971. The place Mehlem belonged to Bad Godesberg since 1935.
A slightly detached track of the station was the permanent location of the travel and representation trains of the American high commissioners John Jay McCloy and his successors from 1949 and of the respective American ambassador from 1955. Trains from the VT 06 series were always kept ready for the embassy . After the permanent stationing was ended in 1963 for cost reasons, the Bonn-Mehlem station remained a station of the American embassy, but was approached by trains of the series VT 08-8 and VT 33.8 , whose home station was Heidelberg, at the time the most important American troop base in Germany.
At least once a year, the US ambassador's special train drove via Helmstedt over the specified transit route to Berlin-Lichterfelde West station . The last journeys of an ambassador's train to Bonn-Mehlem took place on 18./19. December 1990 in the tenure of Vernon A. Walters . The German reunification ended the role of the Bonn-Mehlem train station as a train station for the American embassy.
In addition to the platform tracks, there is also a siding in the northern area of the station, the other tracks for freight traffic have been removed.
passenger traffic
Bonn-Mehlem train station has three platform tracks, each over 200 meters long. The central platform with tracks 1 and 3 is 38 centimeters high, the main platform with track 2 is 76 centimeters high . Both platforms can be reached via an underpass connected on both sides.
Scheduled long-distance traffic does not exist, the station is served by three regional train lines for local rail passenger traffic, of which the RB 48 begins and ends here.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Station category list 2013. (PDF; 300 kB) DB Station & Service AG, January 1, 2013, archived from the original on July 29, 2013 ; Retrieved June 3, 2013 .
- ↑ Hans Kleinpass: The street names of the Lannesdorf district. 3rd part (conclusion). In: Godesberger Heimatblätter. Annual booklet of the Association for Homeland Care and Local History Bad Godesberg . Issue 15. 1977, pp. 5–39 (here: pp. 17 ff.)
- ↑ Volkhard Stern: A saloon train was ready at the station - official traffic to the American Embassy in Mehlem . In: Godesberger Heimatblätter 47, 2009, pp. 84–99
- ↑ Bonn-Mehlem ( Memento of the original dated August 1, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Deutschebahn.com, July 11, 2018.
