Rheydt Hauptbahnhof is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (, ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Netherlands, Dutch border. Geography Municipal subdivisions Since 2009, th ...

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. Mönchengladbach is the only city in Germany that has two stations called

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 ...

, due to the merger of the city of

Rheydt Rheydt () is a borough of the German city Mönchengladbach, located in the west of North Rhine-Westphalia. Until 1918 and then again from 1933 (due to a split from Mönchengladbach arranged by Joseph Goebbels, who was born there) through 1975 it ...

into

in the late 1970s.

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 Deutsche Bundesbahn (, ) or DB () was formed as the state railway of the newly established West Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). The DB remained the state railway of West Germany u ...

retained the name (and the name of suburban stops such as ''Rheydt-Odenkirchen''); Mönchengladbach has two "main stations",

Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof (German for ''Mönchengladbach main station'') is a railway station in the city of Mönchengladbach in western Germany. Overview The station is the largest railway station in the city and, along with Rheydt Hbf, on ...

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. It is at the southwestern border of the

Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (), abbreviated VRR, is a public transport association (Verkehrsverbund) in the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It covers large parts of the Ruhr, Ruhr area, the Lower Rhine region including Düsse ...

, with services extending into the area of the ''Aachener Verkehrsverbund''.

References

{{Authority control Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Buildings and structures in Mönchengladbach Railway stations in Germany opened in 1852 1852 establishments in Prussia