Erftstadt station

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Erftstadt
Meanwhile dismantled level crossing to track 2/3
Meanwhile dismantled level crossing to track 2/3
Data
Design Through station
Platform tracks 3
abbreviation KEST
IBNR 8003671
Price range 4th
opening 1874
(reopening: November 1984)
location
City / municipality Erftstadt
Place / district Liblar
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 48 '25 "  N , 6 ° 49' 59"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 48 '25 "  N , 6 ° 49' 59"  E
Height ( SO ) 102.7  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Erftstadt train station is the passenger train station of the city of Erftstadt ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and, in connection with the parking lot and bus routes, the most important traffic node and connection point in the city. The station is on the Eifel line (Kalscheuren - Ehrang) and is served by the RB 24, RE 22 and RE 12 lines, which run from Trier via Kall to Cologne Central Station every 30 minutes. During rush hour, the frequency is increased, in the morning towards Cologne and in the evening from Cologne. Until 1990 the station was officially called Liblar.

location

The station area is located on the south-eastern outskirts of the city, in the southern part of the Liblar district , between the Villeseenkette in the east and the city center of Erftstadt in the west.

history

In 1874 the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) began building the Liblar station. The station building was built in the style of historicism .

On March 1, 1877, the first Rhenish briquettes were pressed in Liblar . As a result, the Liblar station developed into a high-performance freight station with 72 tracks, seven signal boxes and its own depot by 1930 . From 1899 the station was also connected to the Mödrath – Liblar railway line, which was initially operated in meter gauge and from 1904 onwards it could be used by standard-gauge trains by installing a third rail . This line was closed in 1965. The construction of the railway line from Liblar via Rheinbach to Rech an der Ahr to the Ahr Valley Railway as part of a strategic railway ("Ruhr-Mosel relief line") was started, but the line was never completed.

In 1913 the station building was enlarged. In 1938 the Liblar train station was expanded to 16 tracks and two water towers due to the steadily growing demand for lignite export. Around 1960 the last opencast mines were also exhausted and lignite export in Liblar was no longer possible. In the following years, the Liblar station lost its importance. In 1969, in the course of local government reform and the subsequent reorganization of the district of Euskirchen, several communities (including Liblar) were merged and the city of Erftstadt was founded. In 1981 the old station building was demolished on behalf of the Federal Railroad . Today's Erftstadt station was built at the same location as the Cologne – Trier railway line was expanded. On May 27, 1990 the Liblar station was renamed "Erftstadt". In September 2014 a major renovation began, which brought 145 new parking spaces, improved weather protection, a toilet system, an increase in the platforms to 76 cm and general accessibility.

The last signal box today was built in 1957 at the expense of Roddergrube AG. Today's forest beer garden was once part of the administration building of Roddergrube AG and the above-mentioned railway line ran right next door from Mödrath via Liblar Dorf to Horrem. One of the signal boxes in Liblar station belonged to the Euskirchener Kreisbahnen (EKB), which had its own small station within the station area. In addition, in front of the Liblar train station, there was also the front station of the EKB and directly after that there were two tracks that formed the passenger station and the reception building of the EKB. The EKB's first line from Liblar to Euskirchen joined the station here.

A railway repair shop with a small locomotive shed and turntable for repairing the small railroad vehicles was also located on this route . For many years, after the depot was demolished, Liblar was still a branch of the Cologne Eifeltor depot . Until 1957 Liblar had more double crossings than the Cologne main station and had the station category 1. There were three shunting locomotives in the station area, because coal trains drove 10 times a day. The Donatus and Liblar briquette factories existed in Liblar until 1957 .

Facility

The station has three platform tracks. There are also parking spaces, a bicycle parking garage and bicycle parking spaces, bus stops, a taxi stand and a kiosk at the train station. The bus stop provides a direct connection to the bus routes 807, 920, 955, 977, 979 and 990 of the Rhein-Sieg transport association . From 2016 to 2018, the station and its surroundings were modernized. Among other things, the platform height was adjusted, an underpass built, the bus stops renewed and equipped with digital displays, and a larger kiosk with a train station toilet and a bicycle parking garage built.

Train type Line course Tact
RE 22 Eifel-Express :
Cologne Messe / Deutz  - Cologne Central Station  - Cologne West  - Cologne South  - Erftstadt  - Weilerswist  - Euskirchen  - Mechernich  - Kall  - Urft (Steinfeld)  - Nettersheim  - Blankenheim (Wald)  - Schmidtheim  - Dahlem (Eifel)  - Jünkerath  - Lissendorf  - Oberbettingen - Hillesheim  - Gerolstein
Status: timetable change December 2016
60 min
RB 24 Eifel Railway :
Cologne Messe / Deutz  - Cologne Central Station  - Cologne West  - Cologne South  - Hürth-Kalscheuren  - Brühl-Kierberg  - Erftstadt  - Weilerswist  - Weilerswist-Derkum  - Euskirchen-Großbüllesheim  - Euskirchen  - Satzvey  - Mechernich  - Scheven  - Kall
Status: timetable change December 2016
60 min

Local rail passenger transport is carried out exclusively by DB Regio NRW . There are diesel railcars of DB Class 620 and 622 used in some mixed Single to Triple traction for speeds up to 140 km / h. Currently, however, only a maximum of three two-part or two three-part railcars are coupled together.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Frank Bartsch (editor): Continuity and change in the country, The Rhenish mayor Lechenich in the 19th and early 20th centuries (1815-1914). Weilerswist: Verlag Ralf Liebe 2012
  2. ^ City of Erftstadt (editor): Yearbook 2002
  3. Hans P. Klahr: Liblar 1150 - 2000 The book on history. 1st edition 1999. Pages 75-82
  4. ^ Report of the Kölner Stadtanzeiger on the start of renovation , accessed on October 29, 2014
  5. Reconstruction of Erftstadt station - City of Erftstadt Retrieved October 22, 2018 (German).
  6. ^ RegionalExpress timetables (RE) ( Memento from April 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )