Hürth-Kalscheuren station is in the town of

Hürth Hürth is a town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Hürth shares borders with the city of Cologne and is about 6 km to the southwest of Cologne city centre, at the northeastern slope of the natural preserve Kott ...

in the Rhein-Erft district in the German state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

. It is at the junction of the

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with the

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. The station was built in 1859 at the initiative of the city of

, but was renamed ''Hürth-Kalscheuren'' in 1991/2 as a result of a contribution of

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14,000 from Kalscheuren.

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 Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the List of cities in Germany by population, fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 m ...

. North to the station’s track field is the southern exit from the container terminal of Cologne Eifeltor freight yard. Hürth-Kalscheuren station is served by bus line 714 of Hürth public transport, connecting to the centre of Hürth and the ''Vorgebirgsbahn'' (literally “foothills railway”, now line 18 of the

Cologne Stadtbahn The Cologne Stadtbahn is a light rail system in the German city of Cologne, including several surrounding cities of the Cologne Bonn Region (Bergisch Gladbach, Bonn, Bornheim, Brühl, Frechen, Hürth, Leverkusen-Schlebusch, Wesseling). The t ...

) station Hürth-Hermülheim. Meschenich, which belongs to the

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district of Cologne, is connected by bus line 192 Monday through Friday mornings and afternoons/evenings.

Structure

Hürth-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 located on the

, which runs between

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

and

Koblenz Koblenz (; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz''), spelled Coblenz before 1926, is a German city on the banks of the Rhine and the Moselle, a multi-nation tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman mili ...

. 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

, which branches off from the West Rhine Railway in Kalscheuren towards

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and

Gerolstein Gerolstein () is a town in the Vulkaneifel district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Gerolstein is a local municipality of the ''Verbandsgemeinde Gerolstein''. It has been approved as a '' Luftkurort'' (spa town). History As early as the Ston ...

Services

The station is served by Regionalbahn service RB 24, operated by ''

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'' 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

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trains pass through Hürth-Kalscheuren station without stopping. The hourly services on line RB 48 (''

Rhein-Wupper-Bahn The Rhein-Wupper-Bahn is a Regionalbahn service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It connects the cities of Wuppertal, Solingen, Leverkusen, Cologne and Bonn and it is operated by National Express. Route The line runs mainly over t ...

'') between Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and Bonn-Mehlem, operated by

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, also passed through the station without stopping until December 2015, but stop since then.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hurth-Kalscheuren Station Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Railway stations in Germany opened in 1859 Buildings and structures in Rhein-Erft-Kreis