Engers station
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | KENR |
| IBNR | 8000094 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | October 27, 1869 |
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| City / municipality | Neuwied |
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| country | Rhineland-Palatinate |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 25 '34 " N , 7 ° 32' 48" E |
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The Engers train station (also: Neuwied-Engers train station ) is a through station and a former railway junction in the Engers district of the Rhineland-Palatinate town of Neuwied . It is located on the right Rhine route and was formerly the starting point of a railway line to Au (Sieg) and a freight station .
history
The station was built in the 1860s at the same time as the right Rhine route. Commissioning took place on October 27, 1869, when the line connecting Cologne along the right bank of the Rhine with Wiesbaden was extended by the section from Niederlahnstein to Neuwied.
Initially, the Engers train station was of little importance in terms of traffic and only employed a few railway employees. This changed over the next two decades in which first the entire East Rhine Railway was taken in continuous operation and, finally, an offshoot of it in May 1884 - by the Westerwald leading Engers-Au railway was completed -. The station thus became a rail traffic junction , which also led to the fact that a railway depot with a roundhouse was built around it .
In 1912, around 150,000 tickets were sold at the Engers passenger station , which then belonged to the Prussian State Railways .
During the Second World War , the Engers train station and the associated workshops, but also larger parts of the Rhine routes, were badly damaged in artillery shelling by the Allies in March 1945. Train traffic was provisionally resumed in August of the same year. However, the station increasingly lost its former importance in the post-war period : from 1954 onwards, most of the freight and passenger trains on the Right Rhine Line drove over the newly built Urmitz railway bridge , and the freight transshipment point in Engers was abandoned in the 1970s. Finally, in 1989, with the closure of the line to the Westerwald, the station finally lost its importance as a junction.
Freight depot
At the end of the 19th century and well into the 20th century, in addition to the passenger station in Engers, there was also a larger station for goods traffic with a discharge hill for train formation, which, among other things, served as a reloading point for raw materials (including clay , pumice ) and agricultural products was used.
Most of the track systems and the drainage mountain of the goods area are still preserved, but have not been connected for a long time.
Todays use
The old station building of the station has been preserved to this day, but is no longer used as such, as it has since been sold to private individuals by Deutsche Bahn . Two tracks are available for passenger traffic on two platforms, which are connected by a pedestrian underpass . Today, the Rhein-Erft-Bahn ( RB 27 ) from Koblenz via Bonn-Beuel , Cologne / Bonn Airport and Cologne Hbf to Mönchengladbach stops every hour in Engers , and the station is served by three bus routes from the Rhein-Mosel transport association (VRM).