Cologne-Bocklemünd train station
| Cologne-Bocklemünd | |
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 Remnants of the platforms and the underpass
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| Location in the network | Through station |
| abbreviation | KKBO |
| opening | 1899 |
| Conveyance | 1974 (1980) |
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| City / municipality | Cologne |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '12 " N , 6 ° 51' 55" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The former Cologne-Bocklemünd train station was on the Cologne – Mönchengladbach railway (route km 5.6), directly on federal highway 59 in the south of Cologne 's Bocklemünd / Mengenich district, and was shut down in the early 1970s and then mostly scrapped.
Useful life
The station was opened in 1899. During the Second World War , many parts of the old train station were destroyed because the American army marching route to downtown Cologne ran right next to the train station. Even then there was a discussion about whether the station should be rebuilt. It was just decided to restart the plant.
After the war, the station was rebuilt, but the old station building was not rebuilt and replaced by a smaller new building. With the new construction of the WDR studios in Bocklemünd in the 1960s, the station experienced another brief passenger boom.
When the number of passengers decreased more and more, mainly due to the construction of the new Cologne light rail system to Bocklemünd and new bus connections, the station was almost completely removed from the timetable in the early 1970s. Only a few regional trains stopped here until 1974 at rush hour or for 1. FC Köln football matches . At the end of 1974 the station was then completely shut down.
In November 1980, the station was put back into operation for one day because there was an enormous rush of pilgrims due to the papal mass at Butzweilerhof .
The station was finally demolished in the mid-1980s.
The train station today
Today an old underpass still reminds of the location of the former train station. The underpass was completely filled with concrete. The platforms were demolished, and the station building, which was newly built in the 1950s, is now used as a junkyard. Therefore, the former train station is difficult to imagine today.
Behind the station in the direction of Cologne there was a loading ramp and an overtaking point that were still in use until the 1990s. The loading ramp was used by the scrapyard until the end of the 1990s. The tracks (including those of the overtaking point) were completely removed at the end of the 1990s. The loading ramp was demolished in mid-2006.
Possible reactivation
According to a template for the association assembly of the local transport association Rhineland , the reactivation of the station as a stop is sought. The prerequisite for this is the establishment of a S-Bahn traffic on the route (Mönchengladbach - Grevenbroich -) Pulheim - Cologne, which is part of the medium-term planning concept of the NVR (target networks 2020 and 2030).
Single receipts
- ↑ Query of the course book route 465 at Deutsche Bahn.
- ↑ Submission to the meeting of the association assembly on December 12, 2014: reactivation of the Köln-Bocklemünd stop. Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland, accessed on December 9, 2014 (printed matter 3-02-14-1.11).