Siegen Hauptbahnhof

Siegen Hauptbahnhof is the main station of the town of Siegen, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in close to the modern centre of Siegen, which includes the bus station and the Sieg Carré and City Galerie shopping centres.

Siegen Hauptbahnhof
Through station
Entrance building from Sieg Carré
LocationAm Bahnhof 16-20, Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates50°52′32″N 8°0′58″E
Line(s)
Platforms6
Other information
Station code5842[1]
DS100 codeESIE[2]
IBNR8000046
Category3[1]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1861
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
Niederschelden
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 9
Rhein-Sieg-Express		Terminus
Preceding station   Abellio Rail NRW   Following station
TerminusRE 16
Ruhr-Sieg-Express
Siegen-Weidenau
toward Essen Hbf
RB 91
Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn
Siegen-Weidenau
toward Hagen Hbf
Preceding station   Hessische Landesbahn   Following station
TerminusRE 99
Main-Sieg-Express
toward Frankfurt (Main) Hbf
Eiserfeld (Sieg)
RB 90
Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn		Terminus
Eiserfeld (Sieg)
RB 93
Rothaar-Bahn
Siegen-Weidenau
TerminusRB 95
Sieg-Dill-Bahn
Rudersdorf (Siegen)
toward Dillenburg

History

The station was opened on 10 January 1861 simultaneously with the opening of the branch line from Siegen to Betzdorf, now part of the Sieg Railway. The Altena–Siegen section of the Ruhr–Sieg line was opened in August 1861.

Jews were deported from Siegen station from 1942 to 1944. This is recalled on a plaque on track 3.

Services
Tracks, island platform and Rhein-Sieg-Express

Today the station has six platform tracks. Track 1 (a dock platform) and track 2 are next to the main station building. The other four tracks are located on the island platform, a through platform and a terminating platform on each side of the platform. Platforms are 38 cm high and the maximum usable length of platforms varies from 118 to 344 m. The station is not wheelchair accessible and has no lifts or escalators. It is planned to modernise the station at a cost of €11.4 million, with work due to be carried out between 2013 and 2017.[3]

The Siegen station is a transport node and connects with the Siegen bus network.

Regional services

The following regional services serve the station:

LineServiceRoute
RE 9 Rhein-Sieg-Express Aachen – Düren – Cologne – Siegburg/Bonn – Hennef – Siegen
RE 16 Ruhr-Sieg-Express Essen – Bochum – Witten – Hagen – Letmathe – Finnentrop – Siegen
RE 99 Main-Sieg-Express Siegen – Gießen – Friedberg – Frankfurt (Main)
RB 90 Westerwald-Sieg-Bahn Siegen – Betzdorf – Au (Sieg) – Altenkirchen – Westerburg – Limburg
RB 91 Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn Hagen – Letmathe – Finnentrop – Siegen
RB 93 Rothaarbahn Betzdorf – Siegen – Kreuztal – Hilchenbach – Erndtebrück – Bad Berleburg
RB 95 Sieg-Dill-Bahn Siegen – Wilnsdorf-Rudersdorf – Haiger – Dillenburg

Long distance services

Between 13 December 2009 and 10 December 2011, a EuroCity service ran every morning from Siegen via Giessen, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Munich and Salzburg to Klagenfurt. One carriage runs directly to Zagreb.[4] The return service from Croatia / Klagenfurt reached Siegen at 21:57. This service was initially limited to two years and was not extended.[5]

Other facilities
Roundhouse

In the station there is a DB travel centre, a McDonald's, a restaurant and a newsstand.

Inconsistencies in the naming of the station

The Siegen station was not called a Hauptbahnhof (central station) by Deutsche Bahn until 2017. Nevertheless, the term Siegen Hauptbahnhof was used at some signs at the station, on road maps and in on-train announcements. The station was officially renamed to Siegen Hauptbahnhof after the completion of the refurbishment works in December 2017.

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Hauptbahnhof bleibt ein Sorgenkind" (in German). Westfälische Rundschau. 3 September 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  4. "Direktverbindung Siegen - Österreich nimmt am 13. Dezember Verkehr auf" (PDF, 116 KB) (Press release) (in German). Zweckverband Personennahverkehr Westfalen-Süd. 24 August 2009. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
  5. "Eurocity für Siegen". Sauerlandkurier (in German). 27 May 2009. Archived from the original on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2011.
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References
  • Kalitzki, Jürgen; Tröps, Dieter (1996). Menschen, Züge, Bahnstationen, vol. 2: Eisenbahnen im Siegerland. Die Ruhr-Sieg-Strecke mit den Eisenbahnorten Siegen, Weidenau, Kreuztal, Hilchenbach, Betzdorf, Freudenberg und Olpe im Sauerland (in German). Siegen. ISBN 3-923483-22-8.
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