Viersen train station
Viersen train station | |
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Viersen station entrance building
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Operating point type | Passenger station |
Location in the network | Separation station |
Design | Through station |
Platform tracks | 5 |
abbreviation | KV |
IBNR | 8000174 |
Price range | 3 |
opening | 1878 RhE station. 1917 PSE station |
Profile on Bahnhof.de | Viersen |
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City / municipality | Viersen |
country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country | Germany |
Coordinates | 51 ° 15 ′ 17 " N , 6 ° 24 ′ 15" E |
Railway lines | |
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia |
The Viersen station is a separation station in the city of Viersen in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The first Viersener station was opened on October 5, 1849 by the Ruhrort-Crefeld-Kreis Gladbacher Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft on their Ruhrort-Gladbach railway line, which was roughly at the level of Krefelder Straße .
Only six months later, the company was subordinated to the Royal Direction of the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway , founded “by the highest decree of March 4, 1850” . In 1862 the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME), which was only active on the right bank of the Rhine, took over the management and in 1866 both companies, which is why this (now defunct) station is also known as the Viersen BME station .
In the same year, the BME gained its own access to the Dutch network with its railway line to Venlo , after its competitors the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) had already opened their railway line to Nijmegen and the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME) had already opened their railway line to Nijmegen a year earlier had opened their railway line to Arnhem ten years earlier .
On November 1, 1878, the RhE reached Viersen with its railway line from Neuss and built its terminal station roughly on the site of today's Viersen station. After the nationalization of all railway companies, all traffic was relocated to the Bergisch-Märkisches Bahnhof in 1887, the former Rhenish line to Neuss was connected in a wide arc from the south to the older station, after which the Rheinische Bahnhof was closed and demolished.
In 1917, when the routes were rebuilt again, the whole thing was almost completely reversed. The previously straight line to Gladbach was abandoned in favor of a new road, and the connecting curve built in 1887 also disappeared.
Instead, the former Rheinische Trasse was reactivated and the current railway facilities with a separate passenger station and freight station were built on the site of the former Rheinische Bahnhof. Now the former Bergisch-Märkische line was connected in a wide arc from the east to the new station, the old station disappeared.
Todays situation
The Neuss railway line has been closed since May 23, 1971, after passenger traffic had ceased on September 29, 1968.
The Venlo railway line was never of great international importance despite cross-border traffic, but is still used for passenger and freight traffic. ICE connections with Amsterdam are made unscheduled if the direct route via Arnhem and Duisburg is interrupted (e.g. due to construction work). These trains then only stop in Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof .
The railway line from (Duisburg-) Ruhrort had already lost part of its importance as a section of the supra-regional railway line Aachen – Dortmund since the construction of the Duisburg-Hochfelder railway bridge in 1873. After the Ruhrort-Homberger trajectory was discontinued in 1885, the northern branch between (Krefeld-) Uerdingen and (Duisburg-) Homberg had become practically insignificant.
The Prussian State Railways already linked the railway line from (Mönchen-) Gladbach with the Rhenish Ruhr area line from Osterath via (Krefeld-) Uerdingen and Duisburg-Hochfeld to Duisburg Central Station , in this form the line is still one of the most important arteries of the left Lower Rhine.
All D trains have been discontinued, from 1992 to 2002 interregional trains on the route from Aachen via Mönchengladbach and Kassel to Erfurt stopped in Viersen. The design elements from the interregional era on track 3 and 4 can still be seen today.
Since December 15, 2013 there has been an intercity connection from Aachen to Berlin in the morning and vice versa in the evening, which stops in Viersen. It will be tested for two years and will only go into permanent operation when it is sufficiently used. This means that the station has a connection to long-distance traffic again . For the timetable change on December 11, 2016, Deutsche Bahn confirmed with its listing in the timetable that this intercity connection is sufficiently busy and still in operation.
Service offer
The station is served by the following regional express and regional train lines for local rail passenger transport:
In addition, Viersen station is served by a pair of RE 8 trains (Rhein-Erft-Express). This runs in the morning from Kaldenkirchen via Mönchengladbach to Cologne Messe / Deutz and back in the afternoon. The line is operated by DB Regio. The trains run from Monday to Friday as an amplifier train.
Bus transport
In front of the reception building is the Viersen Bahnhof bus stop , where there is a connection to some bus routes that go to Viersen and the surrounding area. All of these bus lines serve the Viersen bus station , where you can change to the numerous other bus lines in the Viersen district .
literature
- Jutta Curtius: The station forecourt in Viersen - monument and monument reality . In: Rheinischer Verein (Hrsg.): Rheinische Heimatpflege . 51st year, no. 3 , 2014, ISSN 0342-1805 , p. 191-198 ( online ).
Web links
NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost: