Engers station

• Rights Rhine line (km 141.2 ) ( KBS 465, 466 )
• Railway Passengers - Au ( 0.0 km )

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The Engers station ( also: Neuwied - Engers station ) is a through station and former railway junction in the district of Rhineland-Palatinate city Engers Neuwied. It is located on the right Rhine line and was formerly also the starting point of a railway line to Au (Sieg) and a freight depot.

History

The station was built in the 1860s at the same time with the right Rhine line. The commissioning took place on 27 October 1869, when the route which joined Cologne along the right bank of the Rhine to Wiesbaden to the partial section was expanded from Niederlahnstein to Neuwied.

Initially the station had Engerser transport links only minor importance and employed only a few train staff. However, this changed in the course of the next two decades, in which the entire rights Rhine line was taken in continuous operation first, and finally a branch from her in May 1884 - the leading through the Westerwald Railway Passengers -Au - was completed. The station was thus a rail transport hub, which also led to that around him was a depot with a roundhouse.

1912 sold approximately 150,000 tickets in the course of the passenger station Engers, who was then a part of the Prussian State Railways.

During the Second World War, the Engers train station and the associated workshops, as well as larger sections of the Rhine routes was heavily damaged in Artilleriebeschüssen the Allies in March 1945. The train service was temporarily taken back in August of the same year. However, the railway station in the postwar period increasingly lost its former importance: Starting in 1954, most of the freight and passenger trains ran on the right Rhine route on the newly created Urmitzer railway bridge, and the transfer of goods in Engers was abandoned in the 1970s. Finally, the station lost in 1989 with the closure of the route in the Westerwald finally its importance as a hub.

Freight yard

End of the 19th and continue well into the 20th century, there was next to the passenger station in Engers also a major station for freight with hump for marshaling, among others, as a transhipment point for subsidized commodities here (among clay, pumice ) and agricultural products was used.

The rail systems and the hump of the freight area are still largely intact, though not connected for some time.

Current usage

The old station building of the station still exists today, but is no longer used as such, as it has since been sold by Deutsche Bahn to private individuals. For passenger service two tracks are two platforms available that are connected via a pedestrian underpass. Today holds in Engers every hour of the Rhine Erft Express from Cologne to Koblenz via Mönchengladbach and the station of three bus lines of the transport association Rhein-Mosel is approached (VRM).