Langerwehe station

Langerwehe
Deutsche Bahn
Junction station

Former station building
Location Bahnhofsplatz 14, Langerwehe, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 50°49′03″N 6°21′19″E / 50.817447°N 6.355165°E / 50.817447; 6.355165Coordinates: 50°49′03″N 6°21′19″E / 50.817447°N 6.355165°E / 50.817447; 6.355165
Line(s)
Platforms 3
Other information
Station code 3557
DS100 codeKLAW[1]
IBNR8003553
Category4[2]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 1 September 1841
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 1
NRW-Express
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 9
Rhein-Sieg-Express
toward Siegen
Eschweiler-Weisweiler
toward Heerlen or Alsdorf Poststraße
RB 20
Euregiobahn
toward Langerwehe/Düren or Stolberg Altstadt

Langerwehe station is a station in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway. It is in the centre of Langerwehe in the district of Düren, about 25 km east of Aachen.

History

The station was built in 1841 to coincide with the completion of the railway from Cologne to Aachen.[3] The two-story central section of the station building dates from this period. Since the line originally served particularly freight traffic between the Belgian city of Antwerp and the Rhineland, a freight shed was also established, which was partly used for the temporary storage of wood for the nearby coal mines of the Aachen district.

With the growing importance of passenger services at the end of the 19th century patronage of Langerwehe station increased strongly. At the beginning of the 20th century, the station was therefore significantly expanded, with a two-story extension added to the station building. The freight shed became disused and was later partly demolished.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s the line from Cologne to Aachen was rebuilt as a high-speed line. In the station two additional tracks without platforms were built to provide continuous main tracks for through trains (including high-speed Intercity-Express and Thalys trains). Two new side platform were built for passenger services, track 1 (towards Cologne) and 4 (towards Aachen), each 220 metres long and interconnected by a pedestrian tunnel.

The latest renovation in 2009 created a new platform track 5 with a bus station and a "park and rail" parking area. Track 5 is adjacent to track 4, but separated from it by a sound barrier. This is a terminating track, used only by Euregiobahn services from Aachen ending in Langerwehe. These services connect to the main line a few hundred metres west of the station. These services can also run to the station on track 4 and, since the timetable change of December 2009, half of the Euregiobahn services operate to Düren.

Current operations

Langerwehe station is currently served exclusively by regional trains: each hour it is served by NRW-Express (RE 1) and Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) services. In addition Langerwehe is served by Euregiobahn services on the Eschweiler Valley Railway from Weisweiler every half hour on the new line. These services continue every hour to Düren.[4]

Euregiobahn service at night in Langerwehe
Line Name Route
RE 1 NRW-Express Aachen – Langerwehe – Düren – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Duisburg – Essen – Dortmund – Hamm (Westf) (– Paderborn)
RE 9 Rhein-Sieg-Express Aachen – Langerwehe – Düren – Cologne – Siegburg/Bonn – Au (Sieg) – Siegen
RB 20 Euregiobahn Heerlen / Alsdorf-Annapark – Herzogenrath – Aachen – Aachen-Rothe Erde – Stolberg (Rheinl) (coupled/uncoupled) – Stolberg Altstadt
– Eschweiler-Tal – Langerwehe (– Düren)

Notes

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2017] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  3. ↑ "Langerwehe station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  4. ↑ "Langerwehe station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 April 2016.


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