Langerwehe train station
| Long suffering | |
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 Former reception building
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| Data | |
| Operating point type | Passenger station |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | KLAW |
| IBNR | 8003553 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | September 1, 1841 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Long suffering |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 49 '3 " N , 6 ° 21' 19" E |
| Railway lines | |
| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Langerwehe station is a passenger station in North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne-Aachen high-speed railway . It is located in the center of the municipality of Langerwehe in the Düren district , around 25 kilometers east of Aachen .
history
The station was built in 1841 at the same time as the completion of the railway line from Cologne to Aachen. From this period dates the reception building , which, however, at that time consisted only of the two-storey central section. Since the railway line was originally intended primarily for freight traffic between the Belgian city of Antwerp and the Rhineland , a goods shed was also set up here, which was used, among other things, for the temporary storage of wood for the nearby coal mines in the Aachen district .
With the growing importance of passenger transport at the end of the 19th century, the number of passengers at Langerweh station rose significantly at that time. At the beginning of the 20th century, the station was therefore significantly expanded: The station building received the two single-storey side wings, the goods shed was no longer used and was demolished a little later.
When the railway line from Cologne to Aachen was expanded into a high-speed line in the late 1990s and early 2000s , the line in the area of the station was given two additional tracks without a platform, which were used as main tracks for passing trains (including the ICE and Thalys high-speed trains ) be used. For passenger handling, two new side platforms, each 220 meters long, were built on tracks 1 (towards Cologne) and 4 (towards Aachen) , which are connected by a pedestrian tunnel.
During the last renovation in 2009, the new track 5 including the platform with a bus connection point, including a park-and-rail car park, was built. The track runs right next to the platform for track 4, but is separated from it by a noise barrier. It is a stump track that is only used for journeys on the Euregiobahn from Aachen that end in Langerwehe. The track branches off a few hundred meters from the main line through the newly constructed Ulhaus tunnel on the Eschweiler-Weisweiler-Langerwehe railway line . From there, switches can also be used to enter track 4 of the station. This option is being used by the Euregiobahn trains that have been running to Düren since the timetable change in December 2009 .
Todays use
Today Langerwehe station is served exclusively by regional trains: the NRW-Express (RE 1) and the Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) stop here every hour . Langerwehe is also served by the Euregiobahn , which is connected every half hour via the Eschweiler Talbahn and the new line from Weisweiler. Their trains continue to Düren every hour. In addition, the station is served by the S13 S-Bahn line at night. Several AVV - Aachener Verkehrsverbund bus routes also run from the station forecourt .
See also
Web links
- Current departure plan from Langerwehe. Deutsche Bahn , accessed on January 30, 2016 .
- Departure monitor. Exit Langerwehe, train station (bus). Aachen Transport Association , accessed on January 30, 2016 .
- Langerwehe train station. (PDF file; 340 KB) In: Stop location plans. Aachen Transport Association , December 2014, accessed on January 30, 2016 .
- Reinhard Gessen: Railway stations - Langerwehe. In: Mining and railways in the Aachen-Düren-Heinsberg region. Reinhard Gessen, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- André Joost: Langerwehe branch. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Betriebsstellearchiv. André Joost, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- André Joost: Langerwehe station. In: NRWbahnarchiv-Bahnhofsinfo. André Joost, accessed January 30, 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Overview of the operating points and their abbreviations from Directive 100. (PDF file; 744 KB) DB Netz AG, August 2015, p. 52 , accessed on January 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Station category list 2016. (PDF file; 337 kB) (No longer available online.) DB Station & Service , January 1, 2016, p. 49 , archived from the original on February 12, 2016 ; accessed on February 12, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Christoph Hahn: Euregiobahn rolls into Langerwehe. In: Aachener Nachrichten . June 10, 2009, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Everything is ready: Euregiobahn can start rolling on Sunday. In: Aachener Nachrichten . June 10, 2009, accessed January 30, 2016 .
- ^ Ottmar Hansen: Euregiobahn to Düren. In: Aachener Nachrichten . December 8, 2009, accessed January 30, 2016 .
