Lindlar railway station

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Lindlar railway station
Entrance building of Lindlar train station

The Lindlar station was on the northwestern hill of the municipality of Lindlar in the Oberbergisches Kreis . He gave the Cologne-Mülheim-Lindlar railway line the last part of its name as the terminus .

history

The extension of the Cologne-Mülheim-Lindlar railway on the Immekeppel - Lindlar section was a long time coming. In January 1912, the Immekeppel– Hommerich section was completed. The section from Hommerich to Lindlar was last opened in December 1912. The end came in 1960 for passenger trains. Freight traffic came to a standstill in 1966. In the same year, the tracks on the section were dismantled.

The station

Lindlar station belonged to station class III. It had a waiting room for passenger traffic and a baggage claim. Then there was freight and telegram traffic. Twelve tracks were distributed around the station building. There was a locomotive shed on the station premises that had space for two locomotives. Next to it was a coal bunker to replenish the steam locomotive's supplies and a water tower . The heavy locomotives could be moved back to Cologne-Mülheim on a turntable . The railway maintenance office for the railway line was also housed here.

The station was particularly in demand for the removal of the Grauwackestones from the quarries above the Brungerst , which were in demand as paving stones and, after the Second World War , as gravestones for war graves. For this purpose, a braking line had been built down the slope from the quarries , which ended near the station building. Today the property is used for commercial purposes for a transport company.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Bernd Franco Hoffmann: The Sülztalbahn. Ed. History Association Rösrath e. V., Rösrath 2012, ISBN 978-3-922413-65-3 , p. 110 ff.
  2. ^ Entry on the Brungerst quarry in the " KuLaDig " database of the Rhineland Regional Council , accessed on August 11, 2017.

literature

  • Gerhard Peter Hänsel: Step by step . The railways in the Sülztal and Aggertal. (= Series of publications of the history association for the community of Rösrath and the surrounding area eV, 15th volume 6/86). Rösrath 1986, ISBN 3-922413-21-3 .
  • Hubert Büchler: 50 years “whether along the valley”, on the history of the Sülztalbahn. In: Rheinisch-Bergischer Calendar 1978, p. 57 ff.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 1 '26.9 "  N , 7 ° 22' 2.3"  E