Gummersbach train station
| Gummersbach | |
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_06_ies.jpg) Gummersbacher Bahnhof during the renovation work (2014)
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| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | KGU |
| IBNR | 8002462 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | 1893 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Gummersbach |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Gummersbach |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 1 '24 " N , 7 ° 34' 1" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
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The Gummersbach station is located on the Hagen-Dieringhausen railway and downtown train station of the county town Gummersbach in Oberbergischer Kreis . It is operated and managed by DB Station & Service in the second lowest station category 6. Until the 1980s, the Gummersbach-Dieringhausen station, also located in Gummersbach, with its depot as a train formation, crossing and branching station, was of greater importance for the city. Only after the closure of other branch lines in the Oberbergischer Kreis and the associated loss of the junction function in Dieringhausen did the Gummersbach inner city train station gain in importance.
In the absence of freight traffic, the track systems are now reduced to the bare essentials. Reception and goods buildings were demolished in January 2012 after years of vacancy due to pending road construction work.
history
The first station with the name Gummersbach existed in Niederseßmar . It was not renamed Niederseßmar until 1893, with the opening of the Volmetalbahn from Dieringhausen to Bruges . Since then, the inner city train station has been called Gummersbach .
The station building in Gummersbach, which was demolished in 2012, was only built in 1937 when the old building became too small.
Formerly connections in the Oberbergisches Land going out from here
- via the Wiehltalbahn (until 1965) and the subsequent Wissertalbahn (until 1960) to Waldbröl and Morsbach
- via the Volmetalbahn to Bruges (Lüdenscheid) , Lüdenscheid , on to Hagen and Wuppertal (until 1986/87)
- via the Wippertalbahn Wipperfürth , Hückeswagen and Remscheid - Lennep (until 1985/86)
- via the Siegburg – Olpe railway line and the Cologne-Kalk – Overath railway line Siegburg (until 1954/56), Cologne (until today), Olpe (until 1979)
The data are temporarily possible connections. Not all trains were run continuously from A to B, in some cases such connections only existed in the timetable for a few years.
Examples:
- Most of the trains to Olpe departed from Dieringhausen.
- The route between Overath and Siegburg only had a local character after the tunnel at Hopesthal was built in 1910, direct train connections to Gummersbach were no longer available.
- There were normally only direct connections to Morsbach from Waldbröl and Hermesdorf .
A connection, which was included in the timetable for a very long time, ran from Remscheid via the Wippertalbahn and on via the Volmetalbahn and Aggertalbahn to the Wiehltalbahn to Waldbröl. For a long time it was driven by a class P8 locomotive, which is quite typical on regional routes . When the Wiehl Valley Railway was shut down for passenger traffic in 1965, this connection ran to Dieringhausen until the end of the 1970s.
The station before the renovation (until 2012)
Before the renovation, the station only consisted of a drive-through track and a butt track ending at a buffer stop. The latter is to be reconnected to the through-track on both sides as part of the reactivation of the Volmetalbahn between Marienheide and Meinerzhagen and the associated planned expansion of the Dieringhausen-Gummersbach line to two tracks. The line towards Dieringhausen is actually two-track, but the valley track was shut down years ago and is currently separated and overgrown, and in some places several years ago the new signals were placed in the middle of the second track . All other tracks, including the extensive freight tracks and facilities, were demolished a few years ago, as was the former siding of the no longer existing company L. & C. Steinmüller . The site of the former track area was converted into a large, elongated parking lot. Freight traffic has not taken place on the part of Deutsche Bahn since 1997 in the entire Oberbergischer Kreis, only the Wiehl valley railroaders have been responsible for the demand traffic that has been emerging since 1999.
The two signal boxes in the station area are no longer in use. One of the two signal boxes is used by the local savings bank for training, the other at the exit to Dieringhausen is empty. In 2009, an underpass was built directly in the area there to connect the city center with the Steinmüller site, which will be used for other purposes in the future. There is already the new campus of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences in Gummersbach, which can be reached via a metal footbridge in the station area during the renovation.
The station building was demolished in January 2012. The condition of the platform was worse than that of the other platforms on the route, some of which had been redesigned in red, and there was neither a waiting room nor plenty of seating. The decay was clearly visible in the station area.
Station after the renovation (until the end of 2015)
In the course of the reopening of the line to Meinerzhagen - Lüdenscheid , the entire station was rebuilt. The new platform is completely covered and accessible from both sides. An underpass enables direct access to the Gummersbach campus of the Technical University of Cologne. The station is completely barrier-free .
In addition, the bus station in Gummersbach is located directly on the tracks, the former bus station on the Ringstrasse was completely demolished by the end of 2015. For the construction of the public transport connection point, the city received urban development funds amounting to 4.8 million euros.
In 2012, a connection between the Ringstrasse and the Steinmüller Kreisel was built, from which the Gummersbach campus of the Cologne University of Applied Sciences can be reached directly.
The P + R car park was completed near the platform in 2012 . In addition, there has been a shopping center opposite since September 2015 .
Rail connection
| line | course | Tact | vehicles |
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| RB 25 |
Oberbergische Bahn : Cologne Hansaring - Cologne Hbf - Cologne Messe / Deutz - Cologne Trimbornstrasse - Cologne Frankfurter Strasse - Rösrath-Stümpen - Rösrath - Hoffnungsthal - Lohmar-Honrath - Overath - Engelskirchen - Ründeroth - Gummersbach-Dieringhausen - Gummersbach - Marienheide - Meinerzhagen - Kierspe - Halver-Oberbrügge - Lüdenscheid-Bruges - Lüdenscheid Status: timetable change December 2019 |
30 min (Cologne – Engelskirchen / Gummersbach) 60 min (Cologne – Lüdenscheid) |
Alstom Coradia LINT 54 and 81 |
See also
- Railway network in the Oberbergisches Land
- For the use of vehicles see Aggertalbahn and Volmetalbahn
Web links
literature
- Sascha Koch, Horst Kowalski u. a .: Railways in Oberberg and the history of the Dieringhausen depot . Galunder Verlag, Nümbrecht 2005, ISBN 3-89909-050-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.bahnhof.de/bahnhof-de/bahnhof/Gummersbach-1033120
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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.
