Herrath station
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 Platform and station building with signal box for the Herrath stop in 2007
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| Operating point type | Breakpoint |
| Location in the network | Intermediate station |
| Platform tracks | 2 |
| abbreviation | KHER KHERN (north platform) |
| IBNR | 8002784 |
| Price range | 6th |
| opening | October 1, 1887 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Herrath |
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| City / municipality | Mönchengladbach |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 6 ′ 17 ″ N , 6 ° 22 ′ 6 ″ E |
| Height ( SO ) | 83 m above sea level NHN |
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The Herrath train station in the Mönchengladbach district of Herrath occupies a special position on the Aachen – Mönchengladbach railway line as a tariff area border station between the Aachen Transport Association (AVV) and the Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association (VRR). The stop belongs to station category 6 .
history
The station was opened on October 1, 1887 as a breakpoint with a station building and was initially called Herath . The first train arrived in the direction of Aachen on October 1, 1887 at 6:32 a.m. In 1906, the breakpoint was expanded by a local connection with a junction to a stop with freight traffic, and in 1931 to a station with an attached goods shed and signal box to relieve the Wickrath station . A freight facility with a loading platform and access road, a half-timbered freight shed and a house with apartments for civil servants were built. The old, small reception building and the level crossing were preserved. Heavy goods traffic (mainly beet and cattle transports) arose at harvest time. Herrath clearly outperformed Wickrath in cattle transport, but Wickrath remained more important in passenger transport .
First World War
After the First World War , coal transports declined drastically due to a lack of freight wagons and the occupation of the Ruhr area. The transports took place again with horse-drawn carts or one switched to cheaper substitute fuels such as brown coal , wood and peat . It was not until early 1924 that the situation slowly returned to normal.
In the mid-1920s, passenger traffic continued to increase, so that the old station building was no longer sufficient, because from 1926 to 1928 it had already reached the pre-war level, while freight traffic remained low. The building was built between 1928 and 1931 on the east side of the Herrather Trasse. It had a porch supported by wall pillars, to which the waiting room was connected with a long bench on the left side of the window. On the right-hand side there were service rooms with the ticket office and a large sliding window as a reception and dispensing desk for luggage or for express and express mail. Behind the waiting room one came to the train station restaurant, the buffet or counter area of which could be separated from the guest area by a wooden roller shutter. Herrath's first public television set was located in the restaurant, which was operated until the end of the 1970s. On the upper floor of the station building there were apartments for railway employees and restaurant tenants, in the adjacent building there were toilets and a brick goods shed. This had a loading ramp for general and bulk goods with a scale on the track and discharge side. In addition to the two current through tracks, there were other freight and shunting tracks along a long paved removal road for transport to and from the site.
For safety reasons, a pedestrian underpass was built and inaugurated on September 29, 1929 together with a new platform . One reached from the waiting room through an iron grating and the underpass to a hall made of masonry, concrete and glazed iron construction between the tracks. Here at the entrance to the platform there was another barrier with an iron sliding gate, which was opened shortly before the train arrived by a railway employee who validated the tickets with his tongs. This pedestrian underpass was originally intended to be extended to the side of the village at the request of the villagers, but this was never realized.
Second World War
After June 1940, the German Reichsbahn transported troop material to the west via Mönchengladbach day and night. Soon the Allied low-flying aircraft began their attacks on the railway systems. The first bombs hit the embankment in the direction of Herrath. The former Reichsbahn inspector Rademacher from Erkelenz station described the air attacks as follows:
“While in the first years of the war the alert only appeared occasionally during the day, it increased in the last few years, especially in 1944, to such an extent that work was only carried out under air raid alarms. With the invasion of the west, enemy aviation increased even more. In just a few minutes, a single plane put three locomotives in front of trains on the line in our accident reporting area out of service, with one locomotive showing 98 bullets in the boiler. The engine driver and the stoker were brought to the Erkelenz hospital with severe burns. Two ammunition wagons were parked in Herrath for the railway gun in Erkelenz . Shortly before the end of the war, they came under fire and exploded, damaging numerous residential buildings and destroying the official residence opposite the (undamaged) station building. "
During a low-flying attack on November 28, 1944, the signal box and the underpass were completely destroyed. Several Herrath residents perished here.
Post-war years
After the Second World War , the station lost its importance, but retained the function of a block post . After the war, the destroyed signal box was attached to the station building again in a semicircular shape. The civil servants' residence and the people tunnel were not rebuilt. From the 1950s to the mid-1960s, the local goods facility at Herrath station was used primarily for beet harvest by agriculture. Due to the shift in freight traffic from rail to road and due to the trend in passenger traffic towards one's own car, the railway systems have been reduced to their current level and dismantled over time. The ticket office was closed on June 30, 1966 and the station was downgraded to a stop again. About this time also found electrification of the line Aachen-Mönchengladbach instead. On May 22, 1968, the first passenger train from Aachen to run by an electric locomotive drove via Herrath to Rheydt.
Freight transport
From the time of commissioning to the First World War, mainly cattle, coal and beets were transported. Until the mid-1960s, the station was used by the local farmers as a goods transshipment point for crops. First and foremost, the products of agricultural production are to be mentioned here, in addition to beets also white cabbage . Two conveyor belt systems were available for this. The freight handling tracks were located east of the main line. Due to the relocation of freight traffic from rail to road, the local freight facility was no longer used and increasingly fell into disrepair in the 1970s and 1980s. The freight hall and the tracks were dismantled in 1990.
Todays situation
The Herrath stop has a central platform that can only be reached via the level crossing. The platform is equipped with a ticket machine and a bus shelter for passengers. In 1992, the long-closed, former reception building made of red clinker brick from 1931 was sold and has been privately owned ever since. With the conversion of the route to ESTW operation via the Grevenbroich signal box in November 2007, Herrath lost its function as a block unit again, until then a dispatcher from the Hf signal box in the annex controlled the two signals from the block unit and the level crossing. The annex has not been used since then. At the same time, the form signals of the block location were exchanged for Ks signals . The stop is served in regional traffic by the Rhein-Niers-Bahn , which runs between Aachen Hauptbahnhof and Essen Hauptbahnhof .
| line | Line course | Tact |
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| RB 33 |
Rhein-Niers-Bahn : Essen Hbf - Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf - Mülheim (Ruhr) -Styrum - Duisburg Hbf - Duisburg-Hochfeld Süd - Rheinhausen Ost - Rheinhausen - Krefeld-Hohenbudberg Chempark - Krefeld-Uerdingen - Krefeld-Linn - Krefeld- Oppum - Krefeld Hbf - Forsthaus - Anrath - Viersen - Mönchengladbach Hbf - Rheydt Hbf - Wickrath - Herrath - Erkelenz - Hückelhoven-Baal - Brachelen - Lindern - Geilenkirchen - Übach-Palenberg - Herzogenrath - Kohlscheid - Aachen West - Aachen Schanz - Aachen Hbf Stand : Timetable change December 2019 |
60 min |
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of the KHER site
- Description of the KHERN operations center
- Description of the access point
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Herrath Bf . In: dorpvertell - Herrather village newspaper . No. 65 , November 2013, Our station in Herrath can look back on an eventful history, p. 3 ff . ( mg-herrath.de [PDF; 5.6 MB ]).
- ↑ Hp. Herrath . Reinhard Gessen. Retrieved November 13, 2017.