Hürth-Kalscheuren station

Hürth-Kalscheuren station is in the town of Hürth in the Rhein-Erft district in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is at the junction of the Eifel Railway with the West Rhine Railway. The station was built in 1859 at the initiative of the city of Hürth, but was renamed Hurth-Kalscheuren in 1991/2 as a result of a contribution of Deutsche Mark 14,000 from Kalscheuren.

Hürth-Kalscheuren
Through station
2006
LocationRodenkirchener Str. 1, Hürth, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates50°52′33″N 6°54′36″E
Owned byDB Netz
Operated byDB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code3089
DS100 codeKKAS[1]
IBNR8003160
Category4[2]
Fare zoneVRS: 2830[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1859[4]
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
toward Kall
RB 24
Eifel-Bahn
toward Köln Messe/Deutz Hbf
Preceding station   trans regio   Following station
toward Mainz Hbf
RB 26
MittelRheinBahn
toward Köln Messe/Deutz Hbf
Preceding station   National Express Germany   Following station
toward Bonn-Mehlem
RB 48
Rhein-Wupper-Bahn
Location
Hürth-Kalscheuren
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Location

Hürth-Kalscheuren station is located on the eastern edge of the city of Hürth in the district of Kalscheuren near the local television studios on the border of the city of Cologne.

North to the station’s track field is the southern exit from the container terminal of Cologne Eifeltor freight yard.

Hurth-Kalscheuren station is served by bus line 714 of Hurth public transport, connecting to the centre of Hurth and the Vorgebirgsbahn (literally “foothills railway”, now line 18 of the Cologne Stadtbahn) station.

Structure
Platform on the Left Rhine line, looking towards Cologne
Hürth-Kalscheuren station, looking towards Bonn

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

Tracks 1 and 2 are the East Rhine line (German: Linke Rheinstrecke), which runs between Cologne, Bonn and Koblenz. Tracks 3 and 4 (which has no platform) are used to haul freight to Cologne-Ehrenfeld and Cologne-Nippes freight yard. Tracks 51 and 53 and some other tracks without platforms connect to the Eifel Railway, which runs between Cologne, Kall and Gerolstein.

Services

The station is served by Regionalbahn service RB 24, operated by DB Regio NRW on the Eifel Railway, and MRB 26, operated by TransRegio Deutsche Regionalbahn GmbH on the East Rhine line, both running once an hour each way every day. Long-distance and Regional-Express trains pass through Kalscheuren Hürth station without stopping. The hourly services on line RB 48 (Rhein-Wupper-Bahn) between Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and Bonn-Mehlem also passed through the station without stopping until December 2015, but now stop.[5]

Line Line name Route
RB 24 Eifel-Bahn Köln Messe/Deutz – Cologne Hbf – Hürth-Kalscheuren – Euskirchen – Kall
RB 26 MittelrheinBahn Köln Messe/Deutz – Cologne Hbf – Hürth-Kalscheuren – Bonn – Koblenz
RB 48 Rhein-Wupper-Bahn Wuppertal-Oberbarmen – Wuppertal – Cologne Hbf – Hürth-Kalscheuren – Bonn – Bonn-Mehlem

References
  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  3. "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 202. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  4. "Hürth-Kalscheuren station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  5. "Hürth-Kalscheuren station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  • "Track plan" (PDF) (in German). DB Netz. Retrieved 15 August 2011.
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