Jülich station
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 A Rurtalbahn train at Jülich station
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| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 2 (until 1982: 5) |
| abbreviation | KJ |
| IBNR | 8000188 |
| opening | October 1, 1873 |
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| City / municipality | Jülich |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 55 '6 " N , 6 ° 22' 5" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Jülich Station is a regional station in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Jülich in Düren . Due to its location on a total of five railway lines , it was an important regional railway junction until 1980 .
history
Emergence
Shortly after the opening of the first German railway line in 1835, the construction of a line from Cologne to the Kingdom of Belgium founded in 1830 , which should lead to the North Sea port of Antwerp , was discussed . Due to the possibility of avoiding the Dutch Rhine tolls, it was given immense economic importance, so that it was the first international route in Germany to go into operation in 1841. After heated discussions (so-called railway dispute) a route via Düren and Aachen was decided, both of which were already important industrial cities at that time. A route via Jülich would have been more cost-effective because of the flatter terrain, but was discarded because Jülich had hardly any industry and, as a fortress town, seemed fundamentally unsuitable for a rail connection. In military circles at the beginning of the railroad age, the view prevailed that a railroad connection was of little use for defense, but enabled enemy forces to attack faster and more efficiently.
Even after the razing of the Jülich fortifications in 1860, it took many memoranda and discussions, until finally the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME) decided a railway from Moenchengladbach on Odenkirchen - Hochneukirch - Titz - Ameln - Jülich - Inden - Weisweiler - Eschweiler to Stolberg and a branch line from Jülich to Düren. The first 7 km to Odenkirchen went into operation on February 1, 1870, after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 , the continuation via Jülich and the two branches to Eschweiler and Düren was officially opened on October 1, 1873. On July 20, 1873, however, a train full of invited guests had already reached Jülich, because at that time the line from Düren was already open. While the cities of Düren, Eschweiler, Stolberg and Aachen had been served by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) since 1841 , the BME had now created its own connections to Düren and Eschweiler. BME, RhE and the Cöln-Mindener-Eisenbahn were the "three big ones" among the numerous private railway companies in the area of today's North Rhine-Westphalia. The BME had had its own connection to Aachen since 1866, and it reached Stolberg in 1875 by extending the line to Eschweiler. Thus the monopoly of the Rheinische Eisenbahn was broken in all important industrial cities west of Cologne.
In 1882 the Aachen North – Jülich line was added. In 1911, Jülich - Dalheim and the Jülich Kreisbahn to Puffendorf followed , with the Jülich small train station about 200 m west of the state train station. This accumulation of railway lines turned the station into a railway junction. Therefore, in 1908, the station received a depot for locomotives in the southwest of the station area.
In the 1920s, numerous plans for expanding and redesigning the railway systems were drawn up, which were ultimately implemented in a simplified form in 1934/35.
During the Second World War , the station was completely destroyed and had to be completely rebuilt. Although the distance operation was to Düren already on 17 October 1945 are included, however, began the reconstruction of the station until 1950. The station building was completed in 1952 for the most part, the entire station operator could again until 1955 to be completely restored.
Jülich station reached its greatest expansion in 1966 with station classification 3. In the 1980s, the railway lines were dismantled and the station was demolished. Previously, he had in 1968, the route decommissioning and 1974, the partial demolition of the track after Dalheim handle.
Partial demolition
The next thing hit in 1980 was passenger traffic on the Aachen North - Jülich line and the Hochneukirch - Jülich section of the Mönchengladbach - Stolberg line. In 1983 the remaining section followed via Inden to Stolberg. Only the passenger train connection in the direction of Düren remained for the time being. At the same time, freight traffic was restricted and the designated tracks were also removed. At the same time, in 1980 the reception building and the counter at Jülich train station were rebuilt again for goods handling and ticket sales in the main building. In 1981 the station was no longer independent, but was subordinated to Düren station .
The partial demolition began in 1982: After the track systems were demolished, track 1 and the underpass from the station building to the central platform (tracks 2a, 2b and 3) were filled in, and the platform roofing was removed in 1984. Passenger trains now only stopped at the house platform on platform 16 (later referred to as platform 6), from which the trains to Aachen North used to depart. In 1985 the central platform was finally removed. A gravel desert spread out at Jülich train station, which nature has gradually recaptured. Parts of it are also used today by the Jülich sugar factory and the opposite forwarding company Martin Bünten. It would take 10–20 years before rail operations were expanded again. Only operations on the Jülich Kreisbahn initially continued until 1999.
reactivation
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In 1993, the Düren Kreisbahn took over operations on the Düren - Jülich line under the name Rurtalbahn from what was then the Federal Railway . From 1995 the Uerdingen rail buses were replaced by the Regiosprinter light railcars , and at the same time the station building was converted into a cultural station and lost its original function. On the site behind the train station, a forwarding company is now located, which has meanwhile built over platform 16. Trains to Düren have been leaving platform 2 again since the takeover by the Düren district railway. In 2002 the Jülich - Dalheim to Linnich line was reactivated . In 2004 a siding for the sugar factory's new brown coal power station was put back into operation and in 2005 a second platform was built on track 3, but the station's heyday is over.
About the train station in general
Until most of the lines were closed in the 1970s, Jülich was a railway junction, even though most of the lines were classified as secondary lines: trains ran from Jülich in six different directions. Today the Rur Valley Railway operates on two of these routes . It runs south on the Jülich – Düren railway line and north on the former Jülich – Dalheim line to Linnich. The stretch of the former Jülich Kreisbahn still exists, but is no longer used. All other railway lines have now been shut down and partially dismantled.
As a substitute, there are several bus lines that connect Jülich with the surrounding villages and towns. With the bus lines 220 and SB20 there is also a connection to Aachen as a long-term replacement for the route to Aachen North. The reception building is now used as a cultural station (Cuba) for cinema, music and cabaret events.
The station still has sidings to the former Jülich repair shop, now owned by the Bundeswehr , and to the Jülich sugar factory. This connection was removed in the 1980s during the great demolition, as beet deliveries could be made cheaper by tractor and truck. Only in 2004 was the connection to the supply of the sugar factory's own coal-fired power station restored.
Signal boxes
The size of the Jülich train station required three signal boxes to coordinate rail traffic: Jnf, Jm and Js.
The signal box Jnf was located on Bahnhofsstraße on the track to Linnich and was used privately until it was demolished in June 2009. It used to be the home of the dispatcher. This signal box was responsible for all trains entering and leaving Jülich. In September 1982 the signal box was shut down. The previous guard interlocking Jm has become the new dispatcher interlocking Jmf.
The Jm or Jmf signal box was roughly in the middle of the station between the workshop shed and the goods handling area at the level of the loading street at the level of the rail connection to the Jülich depot. Today you have to orientate yourself on the siding to the sugar factory. In 1999 it had long since lost its function and was demolished. The tasks of the interlocking Jm were the operation of the entry and exit signals in the station area, as well as the shunting traffic monitoring.
The signal box Js was at the southern end of the Jülich station, at the junction of the line to Düren and Inden . It was demolished in 1984. The Js interlocking was responsible for the operation of the discharge hill . In addition, various entrances and exits to tracks 4-9 were part of it.
Depot
The Bahnbetriebswerk (Bw) Jülich was built in 1908 due to the high volume of traffic. To do this, the old track of the Jülich district railway had to be relocated in a south-easterly direction coming from Jülich Nord. The new depot was partly built on the old route of this line. The depot was on the southwestern edge of the station area. It extended to what is now the sugar factory's clarifier. Today there is a pony farm there.
Gradually, the Bw expanded to an impressive extent. In addition to the usual facilities such as coal busses and workshops, the Bw also had a 16 m turntable with an attached nine-sided roundhouse and a car repair, on the tracks of which parking and maintenance tracks for rail buses were later installed. In this area there was also a two-tier wagon hall and parking and loading tracks for accumulator railcars of the ETA 150 series .
To steam locomotive times locomotives were parked at Bw Jülich. These were withdrawn or scrapped in 1962. Thereafter, rail buses and accumulator railcars (introduced since 1955) were used until 1978. On September 1, 1962, the Jülich depot was relieved of its independence and placed under the Düren depot .
In the 1980s, the Jülich depot came to an end: it was demolished from 1980 to 1987.
Repair shop
Shortly after the construction of the railway depot Jülich 1914-1918 south of Julich near the today's Jülich Research Center , the repair shop built Jülich purpose locomotive, passenger and freight cars maintenance work. In 1964, however, the end came: despite massive protests, the plant was closed for railway engineering purposes and since then it has housed the Bundeswehr's army repairs facility. The large workshop has been preserved and there is regular freight traffic on the nearby Düren - Jülich line. For this purpose, there is a siding from the maintenance works to the Jülich station running parallel to the line.
See also
Web links
- Current departure plan from Jülich. Deutsche Bahn , accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- Departure monitor. Exit Jülich, train station / ZOB (bus). Aachen Transport Association , accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- Jülich train station / ZOB. (PDF file; 354 KB) In: Stop location plans. Aachen Transport Association , June 2015, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- Reinhard Gessen: Railway stations - Jülich. In: Mining and railways in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg region. Reinhard Gessen, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- Stefan von der Ruhren: Jülich. In: Railways in Aachen and the Euregio Meuse-Rhine. Stefan von der Ruhren, December 13, 2009, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- André Joost: Jülich branch. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Betriebsstellearchiv. André Joost, accessed February 1, 2016 .
- André Joost: Jülich station. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Bahnhofsinfo. André Joost, accessed January 1, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eisenbahn-Amateur-Klub Jülich eV (Ed.): Jülich, the old railway town . Jülich 1977.
- ↑ Roland Keller: May 30, 1980 - Closure of the Jülich - Hochneukirch and Aachen North - Jülich lines. In: Railway in Stolberg. Roland Keller, accessed February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Roland Keller: Along the Inde from Stolberg to Jülich between 1979 and 1988. In: Railway in the Aachen area. Guido Radermacher, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- ^ Roland Keller: The Düren - Jülich route in the 80s. In: Railway in the Aachen area. Guido Radermacher, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- ^ KuBa - Kulturbahnhof Jülich. Kultur im Bahnhof eV, accessed on February 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Guido Radermacher: Bw Jülich. In: Railway in the Aachen area. Guido Radermacher, accessed on February 1, 2016 .