Zülpich train station

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Zülpich train station
Entrance building with Otmar-Alt-Regiosprinter
Entrance building with Otmar Alt regional printer
Data
Operating point type railway station
Location in the network Intermediate station
Design Through station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation concentration camp
IBNR 8006674
opening October 6, 1864
location
City / municipality Euskirchen
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 41 '53 "  N , 6 ° 39' 47"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '53 "  N , 6 ° 39' 47"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Zülpich station was built in 1864 by the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and from 1908 to 1962 had connections to the Düren district railway and the Euskirchen district railway .

Freight transport

Track systems

From the direction of Düren a proceeding according to the station entry next to the track rail side track of the station, via which the sidings of Zuelpich KAPPA paper and a car Wholesale (former briquette) are operated. After the end of the siding, the trains pass the former infrastructure border between Rurtalbahn and DB Netz, followed by the actual Zülpich station with platform and shunting tracks. In the area of ​​the entrance from the direction of Euskirchen there is another, currently unused connection for serving two industrial companies.

history

A siding running parallel to the line in front of the entrance to Zülpich station

After the sidings for the freight connections were set up in 1962, the transfer option for the Düren and Euskirchen district railways in the Zülpich station was no longer available. The transfer systems were dismantled or converted. From 1976 to 1995 the transports were taken over by the Zülpich industrial railway. This had two locomotives of its own between 1987 and 1995. Otherwise the traffic was carried out with the locomotives of the Deutsche Bundesbahn .

In 1995, the Zülpicher Stadtwerke stopped operating the industrial railway. From 1996 to 2002 the operation was carried out exclusively by the Deutsche Bahn AG , after that the railway company in the Bergisch-Märkischen area (EBM) operated the goods traffic from Zülpich to Euskirchen until 2006. The route from Düren to Zülpich was acquired by the Düren district railway in 2002. In addition, since 2003 Smurfit Kappa Zülpich Paper in Zülpich has been supplied with lignite by Rurtalbahn GmbH . This order brings an annual volume of 38,000 tons of lignite onto the tracks between Düren and Zülpich. Therefore, new switch connections had to be created for the operation of the Kappa company.

There were or still are industrial connections to the former Zülpich briquette factory (Victor Rolff, today Wallenius Wilhelmsen), to the Sieger paper factory (later Zülpich Papier, today Smurfit Kappa Zülpich Papier), to the Mundt company (dismantled), to the Zülpich stoneware works (dismantled) and the companies Liquipack (dismantled), Cerestar GmbH (wheat products, siding dismantled) and Albis-Plastic GmbH.

passenger traffic

Founding years

The Zülpich station (route kilometers 19.474) was built and put into operation in 1864 by the Rheinische-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft on the Düren - Euskirchen route . From 1895 to 1908 it served as a transfer station to the Euskirchener Kreisbahnen , from 1908 to 1962 to the Düren Kreisbahn . The route of the Euskirchene Kreisbahnen crossed the route in the course of the Zülpich – Liblar road north of the train station and then ran north-east along the train station, where there was its own train station. From 1908, the Euskirchen route together with the Düren district railway crossed the state railway line south of the station on an overpass, the line to the state station was omitted. On January 31, 1960, the Düren circular  railway stopped passenger traffic on the Nörvenich - Zülpich route, in 1959 the Euskirchen circular railway in Zülpich, followed by the Düren circular railway in 1962. Rail passenger transport in Zülpich was decommissioned on May 27, 1983 with the closure of the Bördebahn. Since 2006 people have been moving cautiously again.

Present and Future

After the cessation of passenger traffic, it has also become quiet in Zülpich station. The station building has been preserved alongside the rented storage shed. The reception building of the Zülpich train station is rented, but is owned by Deutsche Bahn. The railway operations facilities of the elongated Zülpich station include numerous tracks that are only partially accessible. The loading tracks and track 1 are separated by removing points. The former signal box Zf, designed as a mechanical signal box, has been renovated and has been used by the IG Rurtalbahn as a clubhouse since 2007, the entire railway operating systems have been converted to manual operation. Since the Bördeexpress has been stopping at Zülpich train station on Sundays and public holidays since 2006 , the platform has now been renewed. In 2015, the station was operated all year round to include Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. A full reactivation was carried out for the 2020 timetable.

business

The Bördeexpress ran every three hours between Euskirchen and Düren from Easter 2015 until the end of the year. The journey time is about an hour. Be recognized NRW - VRS and Euregio tickets as well as for the section Dueren - Vettweiß AVV imagine. Bicycles are transported free of charge. Are used RegioSprinter in a pure second-class configuration. Until 2015 there was also a separate house tariff.

From December 2015, a regional shuttle operated by the Rur Valley Railway commuted four times on the route on weekends and public holidays. VRS tariff, AVV tariff and NRW tariff tickets were recognized.

Since December 2019, traffic has also taken place Monday to Friday.

line Line course Tact
RB 28 Eifel-Bördebahn :
Euskirchen  - Nemmenich  - Zülpich  - Vettweiß  - Vettweiß-Jakobwüllesheim  - Nörvenich-Rommelsheim  - Nörvenich-Binsfeld  - Düren
Status: timetable change December 2019 		120 min  (weekdays)
180 min  (weekends and holidays)

literature

  • Bernd Franco Hoffmann: Disused railway lines in the Rhineland. Sutton-Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-396-9 .

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