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Eilendorf station is a station in the German state of
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on the
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. It is located in the eastern
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district of Eilendorf near the districts of
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, Rothe Erde and
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.


Location and facilities

The halt (''Haltepunkt'', technically a station without
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) of Eilendorf is on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed line north of the centre of Eilendorf. The district of Nirm borders to the north. The Eilendorf Tunnel ends to the east of the station. The ''Eilendorf Bahnhof'' bus stop of ''Aachener Straßenbahn und Energieversorgungs-AG'', the Aachen municipal bus company, lies to the west, about from the platforms. The station has two tracks, each of which is faced by a long side platform. There is a waiting room, a
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and a one-line, digital
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on every platform.
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s are installed on the northern platform. The platforms are monitored by video. There are also lockable bicycle boxes behind both platforms. There is a slope next to the railway line. While the entrances, which are each in the middle of a platform, are at ground level, the line toward
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rises from Eilendorf station, but after the station it is below the surrounding ground. The tracks cannot be crossed at the station itself, so passengers must use a bridge to the west or an underpass to the east. The straight line to Eilendorf Tunnel and Nirm Tunnel can be seen from the eastern end of the platforms.


History

The
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(''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'') opened the railway from
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to
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on 1 September 1841. A halt was opened at the time called ''Nirm'', which was renamed Eilendorf in 1865. With the building of a siding to a neighbouring
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, Eilendorf halt was redesignated as a station. The original, one-story station building was opened on the south side of the station in April 1897. In the meantime, passenger services were discontinued at Eilendorf station, but they resumed in 1897. A new, larger entrance building was built by
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in about 1920. At that time, Eilendorf station had an island platform between the two tracks, a bypass track and a track for freight handling. The latter was located at the first station building built in 1897. Eilendorf station received its current form during the electrification of the Cologne–Aachen line, which took place from 1963 to 1966. Two side platforms were replaced by a central platform. All track infrastructure, except for the platform tracks, was dismantled and the station was redesignated as a halt. The station building was demolished in 1988. A stop of the Regional-Express RE 9 ''
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'' service was established in Eilendorf in 2003. Shortly afterwards, demands were made for a second Regional-Express stop in Eilendorf and subsequently the RE 1 '' NRW-Express'' stopped there, thus establishing a 30-minute cycle to Cologne. The RE 9's stop in Eilendorf was discontinued at the 2009 timetable change. The platforms were increased from to to enable a level, barrier-free entry into the trains in 2018. The platforms, which were previously over long, were shortened to .


Current operations

Eilendorf station is served by following passenger services:


References


External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eilendorf Station Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Buildings and structures in Aachen Railway stations in Germany opened in 1841