Herzogenrath station

Herzogenrath station is the most important railway station in the city of Herzogenrath, Städteregion Aachen, NRW, Germany. Here, the lines to Sittard via Landgraaf and Heerlen and to Stolberg, both part of the regional Euregiobahn network, branch from the main line from Aachen to Mönchengladbach. The station is in the area of the Aachen transport association (Aachener Verkehrsverbund, AVV) and linked to an adjacent bus station and a park-and-ride parking deck. For the RE 18 trains to Heerlen, this is the only stop in Germany.

Herzogenrath
Bf
Entrance building
LocationBahnhofstr. 1, Herzogenrath, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates50°52′15″N 6°5′40.7″E
Owned byDB Netz
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms2 island platforms
Other information
Station coden/a
DS100 codeKHEZ
IBNR8002806
Category3[1]
Fare zone
  • AVV: Herzogenrath[2]
  • VRS: 3120 (AVV transitional tariff)[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1852
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
toward Dortmund Hbf
RE 4
Wupper-Express
toward Aachen Hbf
toward Heerlen
RB 20
Euregiobahn
toward Langerwehe/Düren or Stolberg Altstadt
Herzogenrath-Alt Merkstein
toward Heerlen or Alsdorf Poststraße
toward Essen Hbf
RB 33
Rhein-Niers-Bahn
toward Aachen Hbf
Preceding station   Arriva   Following station
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 18
LIMAX
toward Maastricht
Location
Herzogenrath
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

History

Herzogenrath was connected to the railway network in 1852, and the still-in-use station building was inaugurated one year later. 1857, a loading platform was constructed to load coal from the near Grube Anna in Alsdorf before a route to Stolberg via Alsdorf was opened in 1890. In this year, also a Rail yard started operation, but went defunct in 1950. 1892, the railway line to Heerlen in the Netherlands was opened.

In December 2004, the route to Stolberg was re-opened up to the Alsdorf-Annapark station, with new stops in Herzogenrath-Alt Merkstein and Herzogenrath-August-Schmidt-Platz. In 2007 and 2008, the platforms were reconstructed to a height of 76 cm, and in this process highly shortened, as only regional trains stopped here since the InterRegio service was discontinued. Also, lifts were built, so the station is now wheelchair accessible.

Since December 13, 2009, some InterCity-trains on the routes Aachen – Berlin and Leipzig – Cologne link Herzogenrath with the German long-distance train network again.

Operational facilities

Four tracks of Herzogenrath stations are equipped with a platform, three of which are in daily use. The fourth one, track 55, is a dead end for trains to and from Alsdorf. Formerly, next to this track, other terminal tracks existed, but these were removed to build the parking deck. West of the platforms, there are several other tracks which today are used for stabling freight- and maintenance trains.

Herzogenrath is one of the few stations in the Aachen region that is not yet controlled by an electronic signalling centre. Since 1985, operation is regulated by a relay signal box of type SpDrS600 with the code Hf (where the f stands for Fahrdienstleiter, German for train dispatcher), at the northern end of the station. This signal box also controls the station of Kohlscheid, which is the following stop in direction Aachen. From 1915 to 1985, Herzogenrath station had a two mechanical signal boxes, besides Hf there was a second one, code Hs, at the southern end. The Hf signal box then was also responsible for the routes to Heerlen and Alsdorf.

Services

All lines leaving Aachen in northern direction station stop at Herzogenrath. There are Regional-Express and Regionalbahn trains serving the station with a regular interval timetable, additionally, one InterCity long-distance train per day heading towards the German capital Berlin stops in Herzogenrath.[4] The Euregiobahn line RB 20 split here until December 2016, each second train went to Heerlen, the other one to Alsdorf-Annapark. Since December 2016 and the completion of the so-called Ringbahn railway line between Herzogenrath and Stolberg, the RB 20 trains do not split up in Herzogenrath anymore but all run towards Alsdorf-Annapark. Vicariously, a new line called RE 18 was implemented.

LineNameRoute
RE 4Wupper-ExpressAachen Hbf – Herzogenrath – Erkelenz – Mönchengladbach Hbf – Neuss Hbf – Düsseldorf Hbf – Wuppertal Hbf – Hagen Hbf – Dortmund Hbf
RE 18LIMAXAachen Hbf – Aachen West – Herzogenrath – Eygelshoven Markt – Landgraaf – Heerlen – Valkenburg – Meerssen – Maastricht
RB 20 Euregiobahn Eschweiler-St. Jöris – Alsdorf-Annapark – Herzogenrath – Aachen – Aachen-Rothe Erde – Stolberg (Rheinl) Hbf (coupled/uncoupled) – Stolberg Altstadt
– Eschweiler-Tal – Langerwehe (– Düren)
RB 33Rhein-Niers-BahnAachen Hbf – Aachen Schanz – Aachen West – Herzogenrath – Übach-Palenberg – Geilenkirchen – Erkelenz – Mönchengladbach Hbf – Krefeld Hbf – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen

References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. "Liniennetzplan Region Aachen" (PDF). Aachener Verkehrsverbund. 9 June 2019. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 201. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  4. "Plötzliche Wende im Wirbel um Intercity: Neuer IC stoppt nun doch". www.aachener-nachrichten.de. Retrieved 2017-01-30.
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