Merten station

Merten station
Through station
Location Eitorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 50°46′13″N 7°23′09″E / 50.77038°N 7.38588°ECoordinates: 50°46′13″N 7°23′09″E / 50.77038°N 7.38588°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 4070
DS100 codeKMES
Category6 [1]
History
Opened 1897/1905 [2]

Merten station is a station on the Sieg Railway, situated at Eitorf, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened between 1897 and 1905 on a section of the Sieg Railway, opened by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) between Hennef (Sieg) and Eitorf on 1 August 1860.[3] It has two platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.[1]

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 12 between Düren and Au (Sieg) hourly.[4]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
toward Düren
S 12
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. "Merten (Sieg) 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. "Merten (Sieg) station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 January 2012.