Sindorf station

Sindorf station is a station in the town of Sindorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway. The station is in the south-east of the Kerpen district of Sindorf and has a side platform on the south side of the S-Bahn line. This is bounded to the south by a noise barrier and the entrances and exits are at the ends of the platform.

Sindorf
Through station
LocationSchulze Delitzsch Straße 8, Sindorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates50°54′12″N 6°40′50″E
Line(s)
Platforms1
Other information
Station code5864[1]
DS100 codeKSIU[2]
IBNR8005575
Category6[1]
Fare zoneVRS: 2870[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened
  • 1912 (original site)
  • 2002 (current site)
Services
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
toward Düren Hbf
S 13
toward Troisdorf
toward Düren Hbf
S 19
toward Au (Sieg) Hbf
Location
Sindorf
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

History

The original Sindorf station was opened at line-km 22.4 of the Cologne–Aachen railway in 1912 and had a platform north and south of the original line. With the commissioning of the S-Bahn tracks in 2002, the station was relocated to line-km 21.4 and redesignated as a halt. In 2004, citizens complained to the then Minister of Transport Axel Horstmann about the width of the platform. They considered that the three-metre-wide platform was too narrow, which was particularly evident in peak hour traffic.[4] As a result, the ticket machines were relocated.[5] After renewed criticism, the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland (Rhineland Municipal Transport Association) issued a report in early 2010, in which the maximum capacity of the platform was given as 190 people. However, a maximum of 164 people were recorded in passenger counts in the morning peak hour, which means that the requirements are formally met.[5]

Operations

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S13 between Sindorf or Düren and Troisdorf and by S19 between Düren and Au (Sieg). Together these provide a service every 20 minutes to Cologne on working days and every 30 minutes on the weekend.[6]

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 202. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
  4. "Axel Horstmann besuchte S-Bahn-Haltepunkt Sindorf". Rhein-Erft Rundschau (in German). 4 October 2004. Archived from the original on 18 February 2016. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  5. "S-Bahnhof Sindorf: An der Kapazitätsgrenze". Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (in German). 14 January 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2019.
  6. Joost, André (6 January 2020). "Sindorf station". NRW Rail Archive (in German).
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