Luxembourg train station
| Luxembourg | |
|---|---|
 Reception building 2011
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| Data | |
| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 10 |
| abbreviation | XLL |
| IBNR | 8200100 |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Luxembourg |
| Canton | Luxembourg |
| Country | Luxembourg |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 35 '58 " N , 6 ° 8' 3" E |
| Railway lines | |
The Luxembourg train station ( Luxembourgish Gare Lëtzebuerg , French Gare de Luxembourg , German also occasionally called "Luxembourg Central Station ") is the most important train station in the Luxembourg capital, Luxembourg .
business
It is operated by the Luxembourg State Railway Company (CFL), is the largest train station and hub of all railway lines in Luxembourg and also an important interface for rail traffic from neighboring Belgium , France and Germany . Since June 2007, the TGV via the LGV-Est high-speed line to Paris has also been in the timetable.
Since the end of 2014 there have been no more Deutsche Bahn interregional trains that previously ran via Cologne Central Station to Norddeich Mole . As compensation for the discontinued long-distance trains to Germany, the Regional Express line RE 11 (Luxembourg - Sandweiler / Contern - Munsbach - Wecker - Wasserbillig - Trier - Wittlich - Bullay - Cochem - Treis-Karden - Koblenz) has been offered since the 2014 timetable change .
Since December 20, 2017 there has been a daily continuous connection from Luxembourg to Bonn, Cologne and Düsseldorf. The train runs from Luxembourg to Trier Hauptbahnhof as RE11 and to Koblenz Hauptbahnhof as RE1. The tariff to Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof is an Intercity (IC5107). It leaves Luxembourg in the early morning, arrives in the North Rhine-Westphalian capital after about four hours, leaves Düsseldorf as IC5106 again in the early afternoon and, again with a change of train type in Koblenz, reaches Luxembourg in the late afternoon after three and three quarters of an hour's travel time. Double -decker trains of the Stadler KISS vehicle type are used .
"Luxemburg-Central" is the name of the ambitious project that plans to roof over the tracks at the main train station and to build on the adjacent areas with apartments , offices , a cinema and other things.
history
The station was opened in 1859. The current reception building was built in the neo-baroque style between 1907 and 1913 by the German architects Alexander Rüdell , Jüsgen and Scheuffel . The landmark is the imposing bell tower.
From 2006 to 2012 the station was extensively rebuilt and renovated inside and out.
In mid-October 2010, a prefabricated multi-storey car park was opened at the station , which is supposed to fulfill its function until a new underground car park is completed in the area of Rocade de Bonnevoie .
On the side, in a pavilion , which is connected to the main building by an arcade, was the Prince's Station of the Grand Duke , which, after various social and cultural conversions, now houses a bistro .
A memorial in memory of the victims of the Shoah was inaugurated in Luxembourg City on June 17, 2018, exactly 75 years to the day after the Nazis sent the last Jews from Luxembourg train station to the extermination camps in the east on June 17, 1943 were.
Track systems
Due to the international connection, the station is equipped like a border station with different contact wire voltages. Tracks 1 and 2 for the connections to Arlon ( Belgium ) were electrified with 3 kilovolts DC until August 2018, as in Belgium , tracks 5 to 10 with the system common in Luxembourg and northern France with 25 kilovolt 50 Hertz alternating current . The contact lines on tracks 3 and 4 were switchable.
Picture gallery
The station after the renovation (end of October 2010)
Model of how the station area could look in the future
Z2 (electric multiple unit of the 2000 series)
electric railcar of the SNCB in Luxembourg station (1988)
North exit (1988)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ No more intercity trains to Cologne. Tageblatt - newspaper fir Lëtzebuerg, 10 November 2014
- ^ Mathieu Vacon and Chloé Murat: Une nouvelle gare pour fêter son centenaire. In: lessentiel.lu. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
- ↑ C. Cornelius: Dr.-Ing. Alexander Rüdell †. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , 41st year 1921, No. 1 (from January 1, 1921), online: Digitalisat , p. 3 f.
- ↑ The car park at the train station grows taller. ( Memento of May 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Luxemburger Wort, May 6, 2010
- ^ GD: L'endroit. In: d'Lëtzebuerger Land of December 4, 2009, p. 13
- ↑ Danielle Schumacher: Monument dedicated to the victims of the Shoah , Luxemburger Wort from June 17, 2018.