Lindern station

Lindern
Through station
Location Geilenkirchen-Lindern, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 50°59′49″N 6°12′29″E / 50.99694°N 6.20806°E / 50.99694; 6.20806Coordinates: 50°59′49″N 6°12′29″E / 50.99694°N 6.20806°E / 50.99694; 6.20806
Line(s)
Platforms 3
Other information
Station code 3734[1]
DS100 codeKLD[2]
Category4[1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 12 November 1852 [3]

Lindern station is in Lindern in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[1]

Lindern station is at the junction where the Heinsberg–Lindern railway separates from the Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway. Since the points where the line to Heinsberg now branches off the main line is now to the east of the station, it is considered under the German regulations for operating railways (Eisenbahn-Bau- und Betriebsordnung) as a Haltestelle (“halt”, because it has no set of points). The Aachen–Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf rail link is now important for commuters from the nearby area (Heinsberg/Linnich). The Heinsberg–Lindern line has only been used for freight transport since 1980. Passenger services on the line to Heinsberg will be resumed on 15 December 2013. Construction in preparation for the resumption of services commenced in Lindern station in 2012.[4]

History

Lindern station about 1900

Lindern station, including the station building, was completed in 1852[3] and passenger and freight operations were recorded in the same year on the new Aachen–Düsseldorf–Ruhrort railway.[5] The ticket office was closed in 1989 and today (2013) the station building is used as a restaurant and a kiosk, while tickets can be purchased at a vending machine on the platform.[6]

Two mechanical signal boxes are located on the south side of the tracks, code-named Lf (class 43, built in 1950 at the end of the station towards Aachen) and Lo (class Jüdel, built in 1930 at the end of the station towards Mönchengladbach), have been taken out of service since the completion of the second stage of the Grevenbroich electronic signalling centre on 6 November 2007. The points and signals of Lindern station are controlled remotely from the Duisburg signalling control centre.[6]

With the commissioning of the electronic interlocking, the crossovers have been removed at the southern end of the station and the then still existing semaphore signals were replaced with Ks-signals. The station thus became a Haltestelle (“halt”). Moves towards Mönchengladbach from Heinberg run parallel to the main line past the platform before reaching the junction with the main line.[6]

Rail services

The station is served by the following services:[7]

Line Line name Route
RE 4 Wupper-Express Aachen Hbf – Herzogenrath – Lindern – Erkelenz – Rheydt Hbf – Mönchengladbach Hbf – Düsseldorf Hbf – Wuppertal Hbf – Hagen Hbf – Witten Hbf – Dortmund Hbf
RB 33 Rhein-Niers-Bahn (from 15 December 2013) Aachen Hbf - Lindern (portions coupled/uncoupled) – Mönchengladbach Hbf – Duisburg Hbf
– Heinsberg
RB 33 Rhein-Niers-Bahn Aachen Hbf – Herzogenrath – Lindern – Rheydt Hbf – Mönchengladbach Hbf – Viersen – Krefeld Hbf – Rheinhausen – Duisburg Hbf
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 4
Wupper-Express
toward Dortmund Hbf
RB 33
Rhein-Niers-Bahn
Brachelen
toward Wesel

Future

The Aachener Verkehrsverbund (Aachen Transport Association) and the WestEnergie und Verkehr GmbH (the municipal electrical and transport company of the Heinsberg district) as the owner of the line from Lindern to Heinsberg have agreed to resume passenger traffic on the line. The operator of the infrastructure is Rurtalbahn GmbH.[4] The line will be operated until 2016 by DB Regio NRW with class 425 electric multiple units.[8][9] The plan is for a portion of the Rhein-Niers-Bahn to be coupled/uncoupled in Lindern, with services later to be put to tender. In addition, there were considerations that the Jülich–Dalheim railway operated by Rurtalbahn to Linnich would be extended as far as Lindern (as had already been planned at the beginning of the 19th century) to connect with the Heinsberg railway.[10] However, due to the cost of a new bridge over the Rur, this idea has not yet been adopted.

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2017] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. 1 2 "Lindern station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Projektzeitplan" (in German). Wurmtalbahn.de. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  5. ↑ Johannes Gottwald (9 November 2012). "Im Jahr 1852 wurde der Bahnhof für den Personenverkehr eröffnet". Aachener Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 "History of Lindern station" (in German). gessen.de. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  7. ↑ "Lindern station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. 5 July 2013.
  8. ↑ "Neubau der Strecke Lindern - Heinsberg" (in German). Rurtalbahn. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  9. ↑ "Betriebskonzept" (in German). Wurmtalbahn. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
  10. ↑ "Ab Dezember 2012 sollen Züge gen Heinsberg rollen" (in German). Aachener Zeitung. 9 March 2010. Retrieved 5 July 2013.
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