Brühl train station
| Brühl train station | |
|---|---|
 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | KBR |
| IBNR | 8001215 |
| Price range | 4th |
| opening | February 15, 1844 |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Johann-Peter Weyer |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Bruehl (Rhineland) |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 49 '45 " N , 6 ° 54' 44" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Brühl train station is one of the train stations in the city of Brühl in the Rhineland. It consists of a passenger station used as a regional station and a freight station about one and a half kilometers to the north . Both parts of the station are on the left-hand side of the Rhine ; in the freight station there is also a connection to the Brühl-Vochem station on the Vorgebirgsbahn ( HGK ).
Transport links
The passenger station is served by all regional transport lines on the left-hand Rhine route:
The RE 5 and RB 26 lines run every hour every day, the RB 48 line has been running every half hour since December 2015 during rush hour, otherwise also every hour. There is only a bus connection via line 990, which runs every half hour on weekdays and every hour on weekends. In the summer months, there is also a private shuttle service to Phantasialand .
history
The Brühl station was opened on February 15, 1844 by the Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn (BCE) on the occasion of the visit of the British Queen Victoria and was the most important stop between Cologne and Bonn from the start . The station building on the initially single-track line was built according to plans by Johann-Peter Weyer in the line of sight of Augustusburg Palace . Since the route led largely over stately lands, the royal family could exert their influence here.
A second track was built as early as 1869, with the passenger station having a central platform. At the time, the freight yard was located immediately north on the east side of the line.
In the years 1910 to 1913 there was an extensive redesign of the railway facilities in Brühl. The route was moved to an embankment up to four meters high, in particular to remove crossings with other types of traffic. The passenger station was given a siding track on both sides of the line and two island platforms between the main and siding tracks, which can be reached via an underpass. Since there was no more space for the freight yard, it was moved further north to the west side of the line. Between the two parts of the station has been transverse web of Cöln-Bonner orbits performed with a bridge over the track and connected by Vochem ago to the new goods station.
In the Brühl train accident on February 6, 2000, nine people were killed and 149 others were injured when a train coming from the north on the opposite track entered the eastern siding at excessive speed and derailed. While the front part of the train fell down the embankment and rammed a residential building, the rear part was pressed across the platform against a pillar of the platform roof. The design of the station from two spatially separated parts and the lack of intermediate and exit signals for the opposite direction on the main track in the opposite direction also contributed to the accident. During the clean-up work, the eastern siding was completely removed, the platform shortened and a noise barrier was built on the east side. As part of the NRW modernization offensive, access to the platform tunnel was widened in 2006 and the stairs were equipped with stair lifts.
In 2013 a scene of private detectives in action was filmed here.
Web links
Tracks in service facilities (KBR) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
literature
- Dr. Horst Semmler, 150 years of the Bonn – Cologne railway , Kenning Verlag, Nordhorn 1994, ISBN 3-927587-23-0