Herchen station

Herchen
Through station
Location	Herchen-Bahnhof, Windeck, North Rhine-Westphalia
Coordinates	50°46′16″N 7°31′19″E / 50.77121558°N 7.52200559°E
Line(s)	Cologne–Siegen (KBS 460, KBS 450.12)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	2705
DS100 code	KHEC[1]
IBNR	8002768
Category	5[2]
History
Opened	1860 [3]
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Eitorf toward Aachen Hbf RE 9 Rhein-Sieg-Express Schladern (Sieg) toward Siegen Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station Eitorf toward Düren S 12 Dattenfeld (Sieg) toward Au (Sieg)

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.^[4] It has two platform tracks and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.^[2]

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.^[5]

Notes

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
3. "Herchen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
4. "Line 2651: Köln-Deutz - Gießen". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 January 2012.
5. "Herchen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 January 2012.