Rheydt Hauptbahnhof
Rheydt Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Mönchengladbach is the only city in Germany that has two stations called Hauptbahnhof, due to the merger of the city of Rheydt into Mönchengladbach in the late 1970s.
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| Location | Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, NRW Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°09′47″N 6°26′23″E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5260[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | KRY[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000318 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 4[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1852[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rheydt Hbf and Mönchengladbach
After the merging of the two cities, the station was not renamed to Mönchengladbach-Rheydt as in all other cases where cities were merged in the 1970s. The Deutsche Bundesbahn retained the name (and the name of suburban stops such as Rheydt-Odenkirchen); Mönchengladbach has two "main stations", Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof and Rheydt Hauptbahnhof.
Operational usage
The station is served by the following lines:
- Aachen – Mönchengladbach (KBS 485)
- Rheydt – Köln-Ehrenfeld (KBS 465)
- Rheydt – Dalheim (– Antwerpen) (KBS 487)
Only regional services call at the station.[6] It is at the southwestern border of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, with services extending into the area of the Aachener Verkehrsverbund.
| Line | Line name | Route | ||
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| RE 4 | Wupper-Express | Aachen – Herzogenrath – Geilenkirchen – Rheydt – Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal – Hagen – Dortmund | ||
| RE 8 | Rhein-Erft-Express | Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Grevenbroich – Rommerskirchen – Cologne – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz (Rhein) – Neuwied – Engers – Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein – Koblenz | ||
| RB 27 | Rhein-Erft-Bahn | Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Grevenbroich – Rommerskirchen – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz (Rhein) – Neuwied – Engers – Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein – Koblenz | ||
| RB 33 | Rhein-Niers-Bahn | Aachen – Herzogenrath – Übach-Palenberg – Geilenkirchen – Hückelhoven-Baal – Rheydt – Mönchengladbach – Viersen – Krefeld – Rheinhausen – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen | ||
| RB 34 | Schwalm-Nette-Bahn | Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Wegberg – Dalheim | ||
References
- "Stationspreisliste 2023" [Station price list 2023] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2022. Retrieved 14 December 2022.
- Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- "Fahrplan 2019/2020: Mönchengladbach/Jüchen/Korschenbroich" (PDF). NEW mobil und aktiv Mönchengladbach. 1 December 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- "Rheydt Hbf operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
- "Rheydt Hbf". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 March 2020.