Venlo railway station

• Rail line Nijmegen -Venlo
• Railway Breda -Maastricht
• Railway Viersen -Venlo

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Venlo Railway Station is the passenger station for the city of Venlo, while an important European border station, especially for freight.

• 5.1 Regional Features
• 5.2 Special

• 6.1 Functional as a border station
• 6.2 Station Name
• 6.3 Other Stations

History

The first station was opened as part of the route from Nijmegen to Maastricht in November 1865. This was not at the site of the present station, but a little further south. 1874 passenger station was moved to its present location. One of the reasons for this was the Hamburg- Venlo railway. Their left-Rhine part of Venlo on Straelen to Wesel was opened in 1874 and closed down piece by piece after the destruction of Wesel railway bridge in the Second World War. The old station yard this line in Venlo today forms the Julianapark. The Hamburg- Venlo railway belonged to project a line from Paris to Hamburg. Their subsequent west route between Venlo and Antwerp, but was never built, because in addition to the pre-existing route along the Meuse to Maastricht and the 1869 to 1879 built the Iron Rhine (Antwerp- Roermond- Moenchengladbach ) no need for a ride along similar lines existed.

In 1958 was born in Venlo, a new reception building, which was designed by the architect Koen van der Gaast. It is decorated in a typical Dutch railway stations of this era architectural style and is characterized by its clock tower and the station the entire front overarching canopy. Both Venlo railway stations were from the beginning train stations, so wrong in Venlo, among others, from 1901, an express train between Hoek van Holland and Basel. Later there was also a direct train connection between The Hague and Cologne, which was later shortened to Eindhoven Cologne and 1999 all set. Since then, passengers have to change trains from Germany to the Netherlands in Venlo, because only within Dutch long-distance runs. Also wrong in Venlo in the Alps Express, which connected Venlo with the ski resorts in Austria and Switzerland.

Lobby

The lobby of the Venlo train station there is a tourist center with a total of three ticket offices, newspaper and flower shop and a kiosk. Furthermore, there is the outside of the station, a currency exchange (GWK ). To make the lobby more attractive, the building was extensively renovated in 2007. The lobby is now more open and brighter. Currently, the station is designed for guests with disabilities. So one is still working to install two elevators.

Operation and Traffic

In Venlo trains run by three different transport companies. The Intercity direction Eindhoven The Hague is operated by the NS, the regional Roermond -Nijmegen of Veolia Transport and Regional Express to Hamm of the euro rail.

Distance connections

Long-distance traffic

Since 1999, the Zugrelation the D- train Eindhoven Cologne was set wrong in Venlo only within Dutch long-distance transport. An exception is the traditional Alpen Expres. This always connects to the ski season, the Dutch cities of Utrecht, 's- Hertogenbosch, Venlo and the Austrian Alps.

Transport

It run the following transport lines of rail in the Venlo train station:

Gallery

Express (SN ) to Roermond

Regional Express to Mönchengladbach in 2006

Regional Features

The Venlo Railway Station is not only railway hub in the region, but also bus junction in the northern part of the Dutch province of Limburg. So run here with the city bus lines also regional buses to Roermond, Weert, Venray, Nijmegen. In addition, on line 929 NIAG Mondays to Fridays three times, twice on Saturdays Neukirchen Moers and Duisburg.

Special

When it comes to construction work on the Holland route, the Intercity Express and City Night Line trains are diverted via Route Mönchengladbach -Venlo - Eindhoven, whereby the Venlo train station then temporarily becomes the ICE and CNL - stop. In order for the city of Venlo is connected with the major cities of Amsterdam, Frankfurt am Main, Munich, Basel and Zurich. Since there at least once a year comes to construction work on the Holland route, so wrong for at least one weekend a year, the international long-distance traffic in Venlo. Furthermore, operating in Venlo both in summer and in winter season trains in Southern Germany, Switzerland and Italy.

Others

Function as a border station

Venlo is a border station at which the different current systems of Germany and the Netherlands clash. It can therefore be changed from those used in Germany 15 kV AC voltage on the Dutch 1.5 kV DC several overhead lines. Because of this, many shunting movements take place in the situated next to the passenger station goods yard, as the Zugloks of shunting must be taken under the contact wire with the appropriate power system again. However, a hump is not present.

Station name

The train station of Venlo not officially carries the suffix " Central " (formerly Centraal Station ( CS) ), but still can be considered as the main railway station of the city of Venlo, there are two other railway stations in Venlo Venlo train station and the central maintenance of all circulating in Venlo railway lines, or hub in the regional bus is.

In operation Jobs Directory of the NS railway station is managed under the symbol Vl.

More stations

Other railway stations in the city of Venlo Blerick include the railway station and the train station Tegelen.