Kaldenkirchen train station
| Kaldenkirchen | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Through station |
| Design | Island station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | KKAK |
| IBNR | 8000190 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1866 |
| Website URL | bahnhof-kaldenkirchen.de |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Kaldenkirchen |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Nettetal |
| Place / district | Kaldenkirchen |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 19 '37 " N , 6 ° 12' 9" E |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The station Kaldenkirchen is a railway station in Nettetal in the Viersen between the Dutch Venlo and Mönchengladbach . It is located on the Viersen – Venlo railway in the Nettetal district of Kaldenkirchen and is served by the Maas-Wupper Express .
history
The Mönchengladbach – Kaldenkirchen section went into operation on January 29, 1866. A track triangle for turning locomotives with tenders , which is relatively rare on the railways , used to be at the DB border station in Kaldenkirchen ( 51 ° 19 ′ 53.5 ″ N , 6 ° 12 ′ 6.1 ″ E ).
The Kaldenkirchen – Brüggen small railway branched off to the west at Kaldenkirchen station . It was mainly used to transport agricultural goods and pottery. There was passenger traffic on this route only from 1904 to 1920. In the post-war period, it was the access route to the Brüggen-Bracht ammunition depot of the British Army on the Rhine . In addition, the Kempen – Venlo railway line built by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft ran through the station; between Kaldenkirchen and Venlo, this line ran parallel to the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft von Viersen line.
Before the tracks were largely dismantled in the early 1990s, Kaldenkirchen was the third largest border freight station in Germany. After the dismantling, the only remaining cargo handling until the mid-2010s consisted of unloading steel coils three to four days a month. The Dutch company Cabooter Railcargo set up a logistics base in Kaldenkirchen between 2016 and 2018 and invested around ten million euros in the process.
Location and structure
Kaldenkirchen station is an island station . In addition to the station building , the Kaldenkirchen junction also had a two-tier engine shed . Both buildings still exist. The reception building is now used by the BaCa discotheque (for the station café ).
service
The station is the stop of the Maas-Wupper-Express . This connects Kaldenkirchen once an hour with Venlo or the district town of Viersen, Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf , Wuppertal , Hagen and Hamm (Westf) . The RE 8 also runs Monday to Friday with individual trains in rush hour to or from Cologne. At the 2019/20 timetable change, this line operated by DB Regio will only operate with class 1440 electric multiple units . A few years earlier it consisted mostly of n-cars and a DB class 111 locomotive and was the last regular service of Deutsche Bahn with n-cars in North Rhine-Westphalia.
| line | course | Tact |
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| RE 13 |
Maas-Wupper-Express : Venlo - Kaldenkirchen - Breyell - Boisheim - Dülken - Viersen - Mönchengladbach Hbf - Neuss Hbf - Düsseldorf Hbf - Wuppertal-Vohwinkel - Wuppertal Hbf - Wuppertal-Barmen - Wuppertal-Oberbarmen - Schwelm - Ennepetal (Gevelsberg) - Hagen Main station - Schwerte (Ruhr) - Holzwickede - Unna - Bönen - Hamm (Westf) Hbf Status: timetable change December 2019 |
60 min |
In freight transport, around 20 trains are currently loaded and unloaded per week, and this number is expected to increase if the Cabooter rail terminal is expanded further.
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:
- Description of the KKAK site
- Description of the operation point of the border station
- Description of the Kaldenkirchen train station
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mönchengladbach - Viersen - Venlo on: gessen.de from February 25, 2011.
- ↑ a b Lok-Magazin, issue 4/2015, p. 11
- ^ A b Daniela Buschkamp: First departure at the Cabooter Terminal. In: RP Online. December 16, 2016, accessed September 24, 2018 .
- ↑ bahnhof-kaldenkirchen.de of February 25, 2011.