Geilenkirchen station
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | KGEK |
| IBNR | 8002206 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1852 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Geilenkirchen |
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| City / municipality | Geilenkirchen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 57 '40 " N , 6 ° 7' 27" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The station Geilenkirchen is one of two stations in the town of Geilenkirchen . It is located on the Aachen – Mönchengladbach railway ( course book route 485) and was the connection point with the Geilenkirchener Kreisbahn until 1971 . The train station has a reception building in which there is a waiting hall , a travel center and a fast food restaurant.
Track systems
Geilenkirchen station has three tracks for passenger traffic. All tracks are used as planned by trains . Until July 2014 there was a siding to WestEnergie und Verkehr GmbH in the station . Freight wagons, most recently brought to the connection with locomotives of the 294 series , were regularly unloaded there. During construction work on the route, the connection was also used to park construction trains , e.g. B. at the time of construction work for the connection to the ESTW in October 2007.
Signal box
Until November 5, 2007, the Gf dispatcher interlocking in Geilenkirchen was responsible for the three level crossings as well as the switches and signals of the station. This task was taken over by ESTW Grevenbroich on November 5, 2007, when its second construction stage was completed. After numerous vandalism damage to the disused signal boxes between Rheydt and Übach-Palenberg , in November 2009 the doors of all signal boxes on the section, including in Geilenkirchen, were replaced with security doors and the windows secured with perforated sheets. After long negotiations between politics and Deutsche Bahn, the signal box was opened on 23/24. Demolished August 2014.
history
The first train station in Geilenkirchen was opened in 1852 with the opening of the Herzogenrath - Rheydt section . In 1900 the second station, which belonged to the Geilenkirchener Kreisbahn, was opened. Because of its central location, it became the largest in the district. There was a locomotive shed and workshops in the district station. Because of the circular track's meter gauge system, it was not possible to shunt freight wagons directly onto the tracks of the state railway. These had to be handled on special loading tracks. In 1938, the roll-head system made it possible to move the standard-gauge wagons on the meter -gauge tracks of the Geilenkirchener Kreisbahn. The station complex thus consisted of two reception buildings, a warehouse for goods and baggage handling, a loading ramp and a head track for loading wagons with vehicles (Geilenkirchen is the Bundeswehr location ). After the end of rail operations on the circular railway, the bus depot of the later district works of Heinsberg was built on the site of the Geilenkirchen circular railway . These took over the passenger transport with omnibuses , which now replaced the passenger trains of the circular path. Today the former district works are called Heinsberg West Verkehr.
From 1992 interregional trains on the Aachen – Berlin connection ran regularly to Geilenkirchen station. With the introduction of the summer timetable 2001, this connection was canceled. As of the 2013 winter timetable, IC trains on the Aachen – Berlin route will stop at Geilenkirchen station once every weekday.
In 2008 the city of Geilenkirchen took over the station building from Deutsche Bahn and began urgent renovation work . New business areas are to be integrated into the building. In 2008, a McDonald’s branch and a bakery opened in the train station. A kiosk and a taxi center should follow, but have not come for years. In addition, an upgraded waiting area with a service counter and new toilet facilities are to make it more attractive for the approx. 3000 commuters a day to stay in and at the train station.
Railway lines
Trains on the following passenger rail lines stop in Geilenkirchen :
Bus routes
Immediately in front of the reception building is the Geilenkirchen bus station as the central link to the WestVerkehr and Aachener Verkehrsverbund bus network . The following bus routes operate here:
For travelers who want to reach the train station by car from the Geilenkirchen area, there is a free park-and-ride car park with 530 parking spaces behind the train station . All platforms, the reception building and the bus station in front can be reached from there through a pedestrian underpass. There are parking spaces for two-wheelers next to the reception building and there is a bus stop with a taxi rank in front of the main entrance.
See also
Web links
- Current departure schedule from Geilenkirchen. Deutsche Bahn , accessed December 30, 2015 .
- Geilenkirchen train station. (PDF; 393.3 KB) Stop location map. Aachen Transport Association , December 2016, accessed on August 17, 2018 .
- Reinhard Gessen: Railway stations - Geilenkirchen. In: Mining and railways in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg region. Reinhard Gessen, accessed December 30, 2015 .
- André Joost: Geilenkirchen branch. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Betriebsstellearchiv. André Joost, accessed January 7, 2016 .
- André Joost: Geilenkirchen station. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Bahnhofsinfo. André Joost, accessed January 7, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100. (PDF; 744 KB) DB Netz AG, August 2015, p. 39 , accessed on January 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Station price list 2018 (PDF; 3.78 MB) DB Station & Service , March 8, 2018, accessed on August 17, 2018 .
- ^ Course book route 485 (PDF; 208 KB) Deutsche Bahn , December 13, 2015, accessed on January 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Good service on site. Aachen Transport Association , accessed on January 7, 2016 .
- ↑ a b 24 seats to eat burgers and fries. In: Aachener Nachrichten . February 11, 2008, accessed January 7, 2016 .
- ^ Georg Schmitz: West energy and traffic stops goods traffic in Geilenkirchen. In: Aachener Nachrichten . June 26, 2014, accessed January 7, 2016 .
- ^ Georg Schmitz: Old signal box at the level crossing in Hünshoven torn down. In: Aachener Nachrichten . August 24, 2014, accessed January 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Sudden turn in the vortex around Intercity: New IC stops after all. In: Aachener Nachrichten . October 24, 2013, accessed January 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Station building - in new splendor. In: Urban development Geilenkirchen. City of Geilenkirchen - Economic Development, accessed on January 7, 2016 .