Herchen station

Herchen station
Through station
Location Windeck, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 50°46′16″N 7°31′19″E / 50.77121558°N 7.52200559°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 2705
DS100 codeKHEC
Category5 [1]
History
Opened 1860 [2]

Herchen station is a through station in the town of Windeck in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened in1860 on a section of the Sieg Railway, opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) between Eitorf and Wissen on 1 August 1861.[3] It has two platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

The station is served by the Rhein-Sieg-Express (RE 9) and Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 12 between Düren and Au (Sieg), both operating hourly.[4]

Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 9
Rhein-Sieg-Express
toward Siegen
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
toward Düren
S 12
Dattenfeld (Sieg)
toward Au (Sieg)

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. "Herchen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  3. "Line 2651: Köln-Deutz - Gießen". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
  4. "Herchen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 January 2012.