Gremberg marshalling yard

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Gremberg
Tracks and level crossing at the western end of the Gremberg marshalling yard
Tracks and level crossing at the western end of the Gremberg marshalling yard
Data
Location in the network Marshalling yard
abbreviation KG
location
City / municipality Cologne
Place / district Gremberghoven
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 50 ° 54 '26 "  N , 7 ° 2' 6"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '26 "  N , 7 ° 2' 6"  E
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Gremberg marshalling yard is a two-sided marshalling yard in Cologne . It is one of the nine largest, nationally important marshalling yards in Germany. It has a total of 31 direction tracks in the north-south shunting system and 32 in the south-north system.

geography

The station is in the south-east of Cologne, surrounded by the Gremberghoven railroad settlement . In the west it borders directly on Westhoven and Ensen . The eponymous Gremberger grove begins a few meters north of the train station and, in contrast to this, is part of today's district of Humboldt / Gremberg . The property occupies an area of ​​1.12 km².

Several railway lines reserved for freight traffic lead to the station. From the north, Gremberg is the de facto end point of the Mülheim-Speldorf-Gremberg freight line , to the west it is connected to the Cologne Eifeltor station and the railway network on the left bank of the Rhine via the south bridge . In the south-east it flows into the right-hand Rhine route and the Sieg route, on which mostly goods traffic is handled as far as Troisdorf .

history

Drain mountain

The construction of the Gremberg marshalling yard began in 1917 (during the First World War ). The station was completed in 1924. The marshalling yard quickly gained great importance, so that in 1942 it was expanded. During the repair of the war damage after the Second World War and again in the 1960s, the station was expanded and modernized again.

The station has been modernized again since 2004. The construction work for the first stage of the modernization, which cost around 40 million euros, was completed in 2007. The train formation is now carried out fully automatically by a central computer on the drainage mountain in the north-south system with the latest braking and conveyor technology. The second stage of the expansion concerns the south-north system, which is to receive the same equipment and should be completed by the end of 2015 for another 58 million euros.

Depot

The Gremberg depot is located at the south / west exit of the station with a large locomotive workshop (eleven tracks), a large open-air parking facility and two transfer platforms .

Oddities

Sign for road traffic at the level crossing

At the western end of the Gremberg marshalling yard there is a level crossing that crosses all of the tracks there (13 in total). Due to the extensive freight traffic and the large amount of shunting work, this level crossing is regularly closed for a long time. Therefore, signs were placed next to the barriers at the roadside (see picture). Due to the low volume of road traffic , a replacement of the level crossing (e.g. with a road tunnel ) is currently not planned.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gremberg marshalling yard. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 1, 2017 ; accessed on April 7, 2018 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.porz-am-rhein.de
  2. ↑ Openstreetmap database
  3. ^ The Cologne-Gremberg marshalling yard is being further modernized. April 10, 2008, accessed July 12, 2012 .
  4. ↑ Train formation facilities of DB Netz AG - hubs for the flow of goods in Europe. (PDF) p. 3 , archived from the original on December 20, 2014 ; accessed on December 12, 2014 (07/2014).
  5. ^ Peter Berger: 115 million euros for the freight yard in Gremberg. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. July 15, 2015, accessed April 7, 2018 .