Siegen Hauptbahnhof is the main station of the town of

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, in the German state of

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. It is in close to the modern centre of Siegen, which includes the bus station and the Sieg Carré and City Galerie shopping centres.

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

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. The

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–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

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

Regional services

The following regional services serve the station:

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

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. The return service from Croatia / Klagenfurt reached Siegen at 21:57. This service was initially limited to two years and was not extended.

Other facilities

In the station there is a DB travel centre, a

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, a restaurant and a newsstand.

Inconsistencies in the naming of the station

The Siegen station was not called a

Hauptbahnhof Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

(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.

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* {{cite web, url=http://www.deutschebahn.com/site/bahn/de/geschaefte/infrastruktur__schiene/netz/netzzugang/dokumente/Bahnhof/SNB/E/ESIE__NBS.pdf , title= Track plan of Siegen station , publisher= Deutsche Bahn , accessdate=9 February 2011 , language=German Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Siegen Buildings and structures in Siegen-Wittgenstein Railway stations in Germany opened in 1861 1861 establishments in Prussia