Rheydt Central Station

Rheydt Hauptbahnhof
Operations
Category	4
Platforms in use	4
DS100 code	KRY
Station code	5260
Construction and location
Opened	1852
Location	Mönchengladbach
State	NRW
Country	Germany
Local authority	Rheydt
Home page	www.bahnhof.de
Route information
Aachen–Mönchengladbach (KBS 485) Rheydt–Köln-Ehrenfeld (KBS 465) Rheydt–Dalheim(–Antwerp) (KBS 487)
List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Rheydt Central Station (German: Rheydt Hauptbahnhof) is a railway station in Mönchengladbach, Germany. It is unique in the fact that Mönchengladbach is actually the only city in Germany that does have two stations called Hauptbahnhof associated with it. This is the result of the merger of the city Rheydt into Mönchengladbach in the late 1970s.

Rheydt Hbf and Mönchengladbach

After the merging of the two cities the station was not renamed to Mönchengladbach-Rheydt as in all other cases where cities were merged in the 1970s. The Deutsche Bundesbahn retained the name (and the name of suburban stops like Rheydt-Odenkirchen). Therefore, Mönchengladbach is the only city in Germany to have two stations named central station, Mönchengladbach Hbf and Rheydt Hauptbahnhof.

Operational usage

The station is served by the following lines:

• Aachen – Mönchengladbach (KBS 485)
• Rheydt – Köln-Ehrenfeld (KBS 465)
• Rheydt – Dalheim (– Antwerpen) (KBS 487)

Only regional services call at the station. It is at the southwestern border of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, with services extending into the area of the Aachener Verkehrsverbund

Preceding station		Deutsche Bahn		Following station
Erkelenz toward Aachen Hbf		RE 4 Wupper-Express		Mönchengladbach Hbf toward Dortmund Hbf
Rheydt-Odenkirchen toward Koblenz Hbf		RE 8 Rhein-Erft-Express		Mönchengladbach Hbf Terminus
		RB 27 Rhein-Erft-Bahn
Rheydt Wickrath toward Aachen Hbf		RB 33 Rhein-Niers-Bahn		Mönchengladbach Hbf toward Wesel