Moers station

Moers station is located on the Lower Rhine Railway, which was built in 1904 by the Prussian state railways. It lies on the eastern edge of central Moers in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the road to Duisburg-Homberg. The station is now a stop for the Regionalbahn service RB 31. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.Behind the station building of 1904 there are the four platform tracks at a 230-metre-long platform and a 239-metre-long platform, both 38 cm high. Opposite the station building on the other side of the station forecourt is the platform of the station of the former Moers District Railway (Moerser Kreisbahn), now owned by the Niederrheinische Verkehrsbetriebe (Lower Rhine Transport Operations, NIAG). It is still used for special excursions.Sidings branch at Moers station to NIAG’s workshop and the Vossloh service center in Moers.HistoryThe first station of Moers was east of the present station on the line from the Ruhrort–Homberg train ferry to Moers, which opened in 1883. The station was moved to its present location between 1904 and 1908. The line to Homberg was closed in 1908 and replaced by a tram line.In 1882, the station of the Krefeld Railway Company (Krefelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) was built on the other side of the station forecourt. From there, trains ran via Niep and Hüls to Krefeld. A transfer track was built north of the station to the state railway in 1886. Passenger services were closed temporarily from 1932 to 1939 and permanently from 3 October 1949. Freight operations to Moers were closed on 15 February 1974 and the track was dismantled afterwards.