Stolberg Rheinland Hauptbahnhof is a railway station on the line between Cologne and Aachen. It is the largest station for passengers and freight in the town of Stolberg Rhineland in the urban region of Aachen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
It houses the Vennbahn Museum and is built at a junction. Stolberger Hauptbahnhof is at the junction of four lines. The high-speed line between Cologne and Aachen runs from the east, first through the freight yard and then through the passenger station and it continues to the west. The Stolberg—Herzogenrath line runs from the north, first crossing the line between Cologne and Aachen and running to the south of the main line to the west end of the station. The former Stolberg—Kohlscheid line also branched off this line at Quinx junction between Stolberg and Würselen-Merzbrück.
The fourth line is the Stolberg—Eupen line , which leaves the station and runs to the south. The then single-track railway line between Cologne and Aachen was opened by the Rhenish Railway Company German : Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft , RHE to Stolberg in with Stolberg station built in Eilendorf about one kilometre from the northern border of the town of Stolberg and therefore poorly located for the Stolberg valley.
Another short line was opened mainly for freight to Münsterbusch to the southwest of Stolberg in with its station near the other Stolberg stations. The present station was built between and by the Prussian state railways. It replaced the previous three stations on the four different lines. In the station became part of the area of the city of Stolberg and since then it has been called Stolberg Rheinland Hauptbahnhof. Thalys services between Paris and Cologne and Intercity-Express services between Frankfurt and Brussels pass through without stopping.
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