Brühl station

Brühl station
Entrance building
Location	Max-Ernst-Allee 2, Brühl, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	50°49′45″N 6°54′44″E / 50.82917°N 6.91222°E / 50.82917; 6.91222Coordinates: 50°49′45″N 6°54′44″E / 50.82917°N 6.91222°E / 50.82917; 6.91222
Line(s)	West Rhine Railway
Platforms	3
Construction
Architect	Johann-Peter Weyer
Other information
Station code	917
DS100 code	KBR
IBNR	8001215
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	15 February 1844
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Bonn Hbf toward Koblenz Hbf RE 5 Rhein-Express Köln Süd toward Wesel Preceding station   National Express   Following station Sechtem toward Bonn-Mehlem RB 48 Rhein-Wupper-Bahn Köln Süd toward Wuppertal-Oberbarmen Preceding station   trans regio   Following station Sechtem toward Mainz Hbf RB 26 MittelRheinBahn Hürth-Kalscheuren toward Köln Messe/Deutz

Brühl station is a railway station in the city of Brühl in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It consists of a passenger station and a freight yard about a kilometre to the north. Both parts of the station are on the Left Rhine line (German: Linke Rheinstrecke); the freight yard also has a connection via Brühl-Vochem to the Cologne port and freight railway network (Häfen und Güterverkehr Köln AG, HGK).

Brühl station was opened on 15 February 1844 by the Bonn-Cologne Railway Company (Bonn-Cölner Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BCE) on the occasion of the visit of Queen Victoria and was from the beginning the most important stop between Cologne and Bonn. The station building was built on the first single-track line in sight of the Augustusburg Palace to a design by Johann Peter Weyer. Since large parts of the line run towards the grand estates, this enabled the royal family to make its influence felt.

In 1869 a second track was built, and the station building relocated to a central platform. At this time the freight yard was located just to the north on the eastern side of the line.

In 1910 to 1913 there was an extensive reorganisation of the railways in Brühl. In particular, it included the construction of a four metre high embankment to enable the removal of level crossings with other transport routes. The station was on both sides of the line with a passing track and two island platforms between the main tracks and the siding, which are reached by an underpass. Since there was no longer enough room near the station for the freight yard, it was moved further north on the western side of the track. Between the two parts of the station, a bridge carried the lateral line of the Cologne port and freight railway over the Left Rhine line; this connected via a circular route to the Köln-Bonner Eisenbahnen (KBE, "Cologne-Bonn Railway") line (now line 18 of the Cologne Stadtbahn) and from Vochem a track branched off to the new freight yard.