Rheydt Hauptbahnhof

Rheydt Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Mönchengladbach is the only city in Germany that has two stations called Hauptbahnhof, due to the merger of the city of Rheydt into Mönchengladbach in the late 1970s.

Rheydt Hbf
General information
Location	Rheydt, Mönchengladbach, NRW Germany
Coordinates	51°09′47″N 6°26′23″E
Line(s)	Aachen–Mönchengladbach (KBS 485) Rheydt–Köln-Ehrenfeld (KBS 465) Iron Rhine (KBS 487)
Platforms	4
Construction
Accessible	Yes (except platform 1)
Other information
Station code	5260[1]
DS100 code	KRY[2]
IBNR	8000318
Category	4[1]
Fare zone	VRR: 502[3] VRS: 1500 (VRR transitional zone)[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1852[5]
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Erkelenz towards Aachen Hbf ICE 10 Mönchengladbach Hbf One-way operation ICE 14 Mönchengladbach Hbf towards Berlin Ostbahnhof Preceding station DB Regio NRW Following station Rheydt-Odenkirchen towards Koblenz Hbf RE 8 Mönchengladbach Hbf Terminus RB 27 Wickrath towards Aachen Hbf RB 33 Mönchengladbach Hbf towards Essen-Steele Preceding station National Express Germany Following station Erkelenz towards Aachen Hbf RE 4 (Wupper-Express) Mönchengladbach Hbf towards Dortmund Hbf Preceding station VIAS Following station Mönchengladbach-Rheindahlen towards Dalheim RB 34 Mönchengladbach Hbf Terminus
Location

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 such as Rheydt-Odenkirchen); Mönchengladbach has two "main stations", Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof 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.^[6] It is at the southwestern border of the Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr, with services extending into the area of the Aachener Verkehrsverbund.

Line	Line name	Route
RE 4	Wupper-Express	Aachen – Herzogenrath – Geilenkirchen – Rheydt – Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal – Hagen – Dortmund
RE 8	Rhein-Erft-Express	Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Grevenbroich – Rommerskirchen – Cologne – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz (Rhein) – Neuwied – Engers – Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein – Koblenz
RB 27	Rhein-Erft-Bahn	Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Grevenbroich – Rommerskirchen – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport – Troisdorf – Bonn-Beuel – Linz (Rhein) – Neuwied – Engers – Koblenz-Ehrenbreitstein – Koblenz
RB 33	Rhein-Niers-Bahn	Aachen – Herzogenrath – Übach-Palenberg – Geilenkirchen – Hückelhoven-Baal – Rheydt – Mönchengladbach – Viersen – Krefeld – Rheinhausen – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen
RB 34	Schwalm-Nette-Bahn	Mönchengladbach – Rheydt – Wegberg – Dalheim