Vingst underground station
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| District | Vingst |
| Opened | 1981 |
| Tracks (platform) | 2 (side platform) |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 55 '58 " N , 7 ° 1' 17" E |
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| Stretch) | Deutz-Kalker Tunnel |
| Line (s) | 9 |
| Switching options | Bus 153, 179, 193 |
The Vingst underground station is a station on line 9 of the Cologne Stadtbahn . This was opened as a double-track tunnel station in 1981. Like the Fuldaer Straße train station about one kilometer to the north , this station has no distribution level .
location
The train station is located in the Cologne district of Vingst under Kuthstraße. It is designated by the KVB with the internal abbreviation VGT . Line 9 heads east to Rath / Heumar via Ostheim , and west to Sülz over the Deutzer Bridge and Neumarkt .
The station is connected by the two bus routes 153, 179 and 193. Line 153 leads north via Mülheim to Stammheim, and south to Deutz via Humboldt / Gremberg. Line 179 goes to Neubrück or Deutz via Kalk. Line 193 has its terminus here and travels north to Kalk.
history
Like all other stations in the Deutz-Kalker Tunnel, the station was previously on the surface. Shortly before construction, the station was served by light rail lines 2 and 9. In addition to this station in Vingst, there was a second stop in Vingst with the Homarstrasse station . With the construction of the Deutz-Kalker Tunnel in the early 1980s, this stop was given up, as it was considered obsolete due to the more important underground station. The station was opened in 1981, line 2 ran through the Deutz-Kalker Tunnel until September 1994.
The subway station is tiled with green tiles, the two tracks between the two side platforms are separated by a fence, which is obviously intended to prevent the tracks from being crossed, and red columns, which are used for stabilization. This makes it very similar to the other train stations in Cologne that were built at that time. The station is designed very simply and without a distribution level. The two side platforms have a low height of 35 cm above the top of the rails . However, the KVB planned a later increase to 90 cm when it was built, since in the 1980s it was planned to replace the classic Duewag articulated wagons with Stadtbahn wagons B and thus convert the entire network to high-floor. However, this plan was rejected for these routes. Therefore it stayed with the low platform heights. For this reason, you have to descend three steps from the escalator to get to the platform level.
Accessibility
The station was built without elevators . However, according to the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , the citizens of Vingster have been campaigning for retrofitting since the early 1990s. The KVB implemented the suggestion in 2014 and built ramps a little later to connect the 55 cm higher platform with the platform, similar to the Kalk Kapelle stop . The elevators should actually be completed in 2016, but construction was delayed, so the planned completion was initially postponed to autumn 2019 and then to the end of 2020. In addition, the roof is to be replaced by a modern glass construction. In December 2017, bus route 193 was put into operation as a temporary solution. This runs between Vingst and Kalk and should initially connect the citizens to the barrier-free Kalk Kapelle station .
| line | Line course | Tact |
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| 9 | Sülz - Zülpicher Strasse / Gürtel - University - Dasselstrasse / Süd Bahnhof - Zülpicher Platz - Neumarkt - Heumarkt - Deutz / Messe Station - Deutz Technical University - Kalk Post - Kalk Kapelle - Vingst - Ostheim - Rath / Heumar - Königsforst | 10 min |
| Previous station | Cologne light rail | Next station | ||
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Lime Chapel ← Sülz Hermeskeiler Platz |
9 | Ostheim Königsforst → |
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Norbert Ramme: Six million euros · The train stop should be barrier-free, brighter and safer. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. April 29, 2017. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Norbert Ramme: Local traffic in Vingst elevators and much more light. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. May 12, 2014, accessed June 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Reconstruction of the Vingst tram stop. Retrieved January 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Reconstruction of the Vingst tram stop. In: City of Cologne. Retrieved June 10, 2018 .