Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof

Eschweiler Hauptbahnhof is the largest station in the city of Eschweiler in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on a slight curve on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed line. Regional services of the Regional-Express lines RE 1 (NRW-Express) and RE 9 (Rhein-Sieg-Express) stop at the station every half hour in both directions.The station is located about 700 metres from the city centre in the district of Röthgen. The station is less than 100 m from the Ichenberg Tunnel. About 700 metres away is Eschweiler-West station on the remaining section of the Mönchengladbach–Stolberg railway, which is now served by euregiobahn trains.On 24 March 1987, the former station toilets block together with the former petroleum facility was added to the heritage list of the town of Eschweiler.HistoryOn 1 April 1841 a mail service was established between Eschweiler and Stolberg with ran at 7 AM and 7 PM daily. Eschweiler was at the beginning of an expansion of its coal mining industry, stimulated by industrial growth. In 1835 the Eschweiler Mining Association had been founded and the population nearly tripled from 1800 to 1850. It due course, the Aachen, Inde and Wurm mining districts were connected by railway.In mid 1841, a railway tunnel was built through the Ichenberg ridge in the course of building the railway and on 22 August, after the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RHE) completed construction of its trunk line between Cologne and Aachen, the first test train ran from Cologne to Aachen through the Eschweiler area. The line officially opened on 1 September as a single track to Eschweiler station. There were two daily trains in each direction and seven horse bus trips ran daily to carry postal traffic between the station and the town—which was essentially only the old town north of the Inde—these also carried passengers. The bus operations closed in 1878. Freight operations started on 2 November 1841. In 1844, the line was duplicated.