Herzogenrath station
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Herzogenrath
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entrance building
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 1, Herzogenrath, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 50°52′15″N 6°5′40.7″E / 50.87083°N 6.094639°E |
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| Platforms | 2 island platforms |
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| Station code | n/a |
| DS100 code | KHEZ |
| IBNR | 8002806 |
| Category | 3 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de (German) |
| History | |
| Opened | 1852 |
Herzogenrath station is the most important railway station in the city of Herzogenrath, Städteregion Aachen, NRW, Germany. Here, the lines to Sittard via Landgraaf and Heerlen and to Stolberg, both part of the regional Euregiobahn network, branch from the main line from Aachen to Mönchengladbach. The station is in the area of the Aachen transport association (Aachener Verkehrsverbund, AVV) and linked to an adjacent bus station and a Park-and-ride parking deck. For the RE 18 trains to Heerlen, this is the only stop in Germany.
Herzogenrath was connected to the railway network in 1852, and the still-in-use station building was inaugurated one year later. 1857, a loading platform was constructed to load coal from the near Grube Anna in Alsdorf before a route to Stolberg via Alsdorf was opened in 1890. In this year, also a Rail yard started operation, but went defunct in 1950. 1892, the railway line to Heerlen in the Netherlands was opened.
In December 2004, the route to Stolberg was re-opened up to the Alsdorf-Annapark station, with new stops in Herzogenrath-Alt Merkstein and Herzogenrath-August-Schmidt-Platz. In 2007 and 2008, the platforms were reconstructed to a height of 76 cm, and in this process highly shortened, as only regional trains stopped here since the InterRegio service was discontinued. Also, lifts were built, so the station is now wheelchair accessible.
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