Hürth-Kalscheuren station

• Left Rhine line ( 9.4 km )
• Eifel circuit ( 0.6 km )

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The station Hurth -Kalscheuren is a railway station in the town of Hürth in the Rhine -Erft. It is an island station on the separation of the Eifel circuit of the Left Rhine line. The station was renamed at the instigation of the town of Hürth, for at that time 14,000 Deutsche Mark Kalscheuren in Hürth- Kalscheuren 1991/97.

Location

The station Hurth -Kalscheuren located on the eastern edge of the city Hürth in Kalscheuren district in the immediate vicinity of the local TV studios on the border of Cologne.

North to the track field of the station joins the Contertainerterminal the freight station Cologne Eifeltor.

The station Hurth -Kalscheuren is connected with the city bus line 714 to the city Hürth traffic directly to the center Hürths and Vorgebirgsbahn.

Construction

The station Hurth -Kalscheuren is a separation station in island shape. The station building is located between the tracks 1 to which platform is a home, and track 51, there are two tracks crossovers between the north and south of the reception building. In addition to the main platform, there are two island platforms, they lie on the tracks 53 and 51 and 2 and 3

The tracks 1 and 2 belong to the left of the Rhine between Cologne and Bonn -Koblenz, the tracks 3 and 4 (the latter without platform connection) to the freight line to Ehrenfeld and Nippes Gbf. The tracks 51 and 53 as well as other tracks without platform represent the start of the Eifel track Cologne - Gerolstein - Kall dar.

Lines (2013 )

The lines RB 24, operated by DB Regio NRW on the Eifel circuit, and MRB 26, operated by the trans regio German regional train GmbH on the Left Rhine line, run about once per hour and direction. Long-distance and regional express trains pass through the station Hurth -Kalscheuren without stopping, as well as the traits of the line RB 48 between Wuppertal and Bonn- Mehlem that otherwise operate any breakpoint along their route.

Through a re-tendering of the line RB 48 this will keep from the timetable change in December 2015, in Hürth- Kalscheuren. It will also run hourly twice in the rush hour in each direction.

History

The Left Rhine line was at some distance from the places of the former mayor's Hürth. A railway station was therefore not provided by the web pages. Only in 1859 a station was built at the behest of the mayor. He lay on the Hermülheimer side of the track, close to the farm Kalscheuren, on the outbuildings still lived in 1887 only 52 inhabitants. The building consisted of two parallel and transverse to the track standing two and a half storey buildings and three windows, between which followed a two windows wide and two storeys stood at the building in front of confiscated Mittelbau, which closed to the platform with a canopy -supported on stands. The construction of the Eifel track that branched off directly outside the station, the station became " in insularity ". The building, however, was directly accessible from the train station directly at the railroad crossing Rodenkirchener road. The building was demolished in 1961. The distant tracks had to be reached through crossings.