Langerwehe station

Langerwehe station is a station in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway. It is in the centre of Langerwehe in the district of Düren, about 25 km east of Aachen.

Langerwehe
Junction station
Former station building
General information
Location	Bahnhofsplatz 14, Langerwehe, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	50°49′03″N 6°21′19″E
Line(s)	Cologne–Aachen (48.9 km) Eschweiler-Weisweiler–Langerwehe
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	3557
DS100 code	KLAW
IBNR	8003553
Category	4
Fare zone	AVV: 87 VRS: 3610 (AVV transitional tariff)
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 September 1841 (1841-09-01)
Services
Preceding station DB Regio NRW Following station Eschweiler Hbf towards Aachen Hbf RE 9 Düren towards Siegen Hbf Eschweiler-Weisweiler towards Heerlen or Alsdorf Poststraße RB 20 Düren towards Düren or Stolberg Altstadt Preceding station National Express Germany Following station Eschweiler Hbf towards Aachen Hbf RE 1 (NRW-Express) Düren towards Hamm (Westf) Hbf
Location Langerwehe Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

History

The station was built in 1841 to coincide with the completion of the railway from Cologne to Aachen. The two-story central section of the station building dates from this period. Since the line originally served particularly freight traffic between the Belgian city of Antwerp and the Rhineland, a freight house was also established, which was partly used for the temporary storage of wood for the nearby coal mines of the Aachen district.

With the growing importance of passenger services at the end of the 19th century patronage of Langerwehe station increased strongly. At the beginning of the 20th century, the station was therefore significantly expanded, with a two-story extension added to the station building. The freight house became disused and was later partly demolished.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s the line from Cologne to Aachen was rebuilt as a high-speed line. In the station two additional tracks without platforms were built to provide continuous main tracks for through trains (including high-speed Intercity-Express and Thalys trains). Two new side platform were built for passenger services, track 1 (towards Cologne) and 4 (towards Aachen), each 220 metres long and interconnected by a pedestrian tunnel.

The latest renovation in 2009 created a new platform track 5 with a bus station and a "park and rail" parking area. Track 5 is adjacent to track 4, but separated from it by a sound barrier. This is a terminating track, used only by Euregiobahn services from Aachen ending in Langerwehe. These services connect to the main line a few hundred metres west of the station. These services can also run to the station on track 4 and, since the timetable change of December 2009, half of the Euregiobahn services operate to Düren.

Current operations

Euregiobahn service at night in Langerwehe

Langerwehe station is currently served exclusively by regional trains: each hour it is served by NRW-Express (RE 1) and Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) services. In addition Langerwehe is served by Euregiobahn services on the Eschweiler Valley Railway from Weisweiler every half hour on the new line. These services continue every hour to Düren.

Line	Name	Route
RE 1	NRW-Express	Aachen – Langerwehe – Düren – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Duisburg – Essen – Dortmund – Hamm (Westf) (– Paderborn)
RE 9	Rhein-Sieg-Express	Aachen – Langerwehe – Düren – Cologne – Siegburg/Bonn – Au (Sieg) – Siegen
RB 20	Euregiobahn	Heerlen / Alsdorf-Annapark – Herzogenrath – Aachen – Aachen-Rothe Erde – Stolberg (Rheinl) (coupled/uncoupled)	– Stolberg Altstadt
			– Eschweiler-Tal – Langerwehe (– Düren)
S13 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn	DB Regio NRW	Aachen  – Aachen-Rothe Erde – Stolberg (Rheinland) – Langerwehe – Düren – Horrem – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport station – Troisdorf		1x per night

External links

• "Langerwehe station" (in German). gessen.de. Retrieved 19 May 2011.