Gummersbach station

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The Gummersbach railway station is on the railway line Hagen- Dieringhausen and the downtown train station in Gummersbach Oberbergisch district. Until the 1980s, had likewise lying in Gummersbach Dieringhausen train station with its depot as marshalling yards, junctions and junction station but the greater significance for the city. Only after decommissioning other branch lines in Oberbergi circuit and the associated loss of the node function in Dieringhausen, won the Gummersbacher downtown train station in importance.

Lack freight are the tracks today reduced to the essentials. Receiving and freight buildings were torn down in January 2012 due to impending road works after years of vacancy.

History

The first station with the name Gummersbach existed in Niedersessmar. It was not until 1893, with the opening of the railway from Volmetal Dieringhausen to Bruges, he was renamed " Niedersessmar ". Since then called the downtown station Gummersbach.

The 2012 station building demolished in Gummersbach was first built in 1937 when the old building was too small.

Formerly of outgoing connections here in Oberbergi country

• On the Wiehltalbahn ( until 1965 ) and the subsequent guy Switchback (until 1960 ) to Waldbroel and Morsbach
• On the Volmetal train to Bruges ( Lüdenscheid ), Lüdenscheid, continue to Hagen and Wuppertal ( to 1986/ 87)
• On the Wipper Valley Railway Wipperfuerth, Hückeswagen Remscheid -Lennep and (until 1985 /86)
• Over railroad tracks, Siegburg - Olpe and railway line Cologne-Kalk - Overath Siegburg ( to 1954 /56), Cologne (until today ), Olpe (until 1979 )

The data is temporarily connections available. Not all trains were continuously moved from A to B, sometimes there were such compounds even just a few years in the timetable.

Examples:

• Most trains to Olpe drove out of Dieringhausen.
• The distance between Overath and Siegburg had after the construction of the tunnel at Hoffnungsthal in 1910 only regional character, direct trains to Gummersbach accounted for.
• Direct connections to Morsbach there were usually only from Waldbroel and Hermesdorf.

A connection that it was, however, very long time in the timetable, ran from Remscheid on the Wipper Valley Railway and continue on the path Volmetal and Agger car to the Wiehltalbahn after Waldbroel. She was gone a long time from one to the regional routes fairly typical locomotive class P8. When the Wiehltalbahn 1965 decommissioned passenger, perverted this connection by the end of the 1970s until Dieringhausen.

The train station before the conversion ( to 2012)

Until the renovation of the station consisted only of a drive-through siding and one ending in a buffer of railway siding. The latter is to be connected as part of the reactivation of the railway between Volmetal Marie Heath and Meinerzhagen and the associated planned upgrading of the Dieringhausen - Gummersbach on two tracks again on both sides with the drive-through track. The route direction Dieringhausen is actually two tracks, but the Talgleis was shut down years ago and is currently separated and overgrown, also the new signals were in some places several years ago put on the second track in the middle. All other tracks, including the comprehensive freight tracks and facilities were demolished a few years ago, as the former railway siding from no longer existing company L. & C. Steinmueller. The site of the former railway land was transformed into a large, stretched parking. Freight transport is the part of the Deutsche Bahn since 1997 throughout Oberbergisch district no longer held, only the Wiehltal workers provide an emerging since 1999 freight demand.

The two signal boxes in the station area will no longer be used operationally. One of the two signal boxes used by the local savings bank for training, the other is empty at the exit to Dieringhausen. Immediately in the local area a road underpass was built in 2009, which will connect the city center with the used elsewhere in the future Steinmueller terrain. There is already the new campus of the University of Applied Sciences Cologne office in Gummersbach, which can be achieved during the reconstruction over a metal footbridge in the station area. The station building was demolished in January 2012.

The state of the platform was worse than for the other platforms of the route that have been redesigned to some extent in red color, and there were neither a waiting room still plenty of seating. The decay is clearly to see the station area.

Station after reconstruction ( end of 2015 )

As part of the re- opening of the line to Meinerzhagen, the entire station Gummersbach is rebuilt. The new platform should be fully covered and have ridden on both sides. With the, due to a delayed completion was rescheduled for the February 27, 2014 start-up, however, is only temporary track 2, coming both from Overath, as approached coming also from Meinerzhagen. After completion of commissioning of the station, to enable direct access to the grounds of the Fachhochschule Köln an underpass.

In addition to the reconstruction of the platform of the bus station in Gummersbach is applied directly to the train station, the current bus station on the ring road to be completely demolished by the end of 2015. For the construction of the new bus station, the city Gummersbach received a grant in the amount of 4.8 million euros in funding.

By 2012, moreover, a road connecting the ring road and the stone Müller roundabout, from which the Campus Gummersbach Fachhochschule Köln can be approached directly built. This road is, however, expected by the end of 2015 not passable during the construction of the new railway station and bus station.

Directly opposite the new and the campus of the new P R car park was completed in 2012. In addition, compared with the platform to be built a new shopping center.