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Erkelenz
Erkelenz
Through station
	Station building 2007
General information
Location	Konrad-Adenauer-Platz 1, Erkelenz, North Rhine-Westphalia; Germany
Coordinates	51°4′36.2″N 6°19′16.8″E / 51.076722°N 6.321333°E
Line(s)	Aachen–Mönchengladbach;
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	1643
DS100 code	KERZ
IBNR	8001839
Category	4
Fare zone	AVV: 140; VRS: 3490 (AVV transitional tariff);
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	12 November 1852
Services

Erkelenz station on the Aachen–Mönchengladbach railway is in the town of Erkelenz in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has been classified by Deutsche Bahn since January 2011 as a category 4 station.^[1] The station is served by the Wupper-Express and the Rhein-Niers-Bahn.

It consists of a simple station building from the 1950s with two platforms. Close to the station there are a park and ride lot and transfer facilities to express, regional and city buses.

While freight has declined in importance at Erkelenz station with the relocation of heavy traffic from rail to road in the 1980s, passenger traffic has developed to such an extent that the station today is the most important stop between Aachen and Moenchengladbach, based on entry and exit numbers. From 1992 to 2001, Erkelenz station was an InterRegio stop on the route towards eastern Germany (Aachen–Chemnitz). With the conversion of the railway line to electronic interlocking operation in November 2007, the crossovers were taken out, so the station is now regarded operationally as a halt, and the new German Ks-Signal system of signalling was installed. The former third platform track was taken out of use during the remodelling so that trains can no longer overtake at the station. Later, the third track was completely dismantled.

Rail services

The following services stop at the station:^[6]

Line	Line name	Route
RE 4	Wupper-Express	Aachen – Herzogenrath – Geilenkirchen – Erkelenz – Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal – Hagen – Dortmund
RB 33	Rhein-Niers-Bahn	Aachen Hbf – Herzogenrath – Übach-Palenberg – Geilenkirchen – Hückelhoven-Baal – Erkelenz – Rheydt – Mönchengladbach Hbf – Viersen – Krefeld – Rheinhausen – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen

Entrance building and bus station
Platforms
Ticket office
Station hall

Notes

^ ^a ^b ^c "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
^ "Liniennetzplan Region Heinsberg" (PDF). Aachener Verkehrsverbund. 1 January 2020. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
^ "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 200. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
^ "Erkelenz station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
^ "Erkelenz station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 2 February 2017.