Aachen-Rothe Erde station
Aachen-Rothe Erde station is a station in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway. It is located in the eastern Aachen district of Rothe Erde near the districts of Frankenberg, Forst and Ostviertel. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.
Newly rebuilt platform
The first U.S. tank to enter Aachen, Germany. Photo from battle of Aachen, 1944.
Station in 2014
Former signalbox
Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway
The Cologne–Aachen high-speed line is the German part of the Trans-European transport networks project high-speed line Paris–Brussels–Cologne. It is not a newly built railway line, but a project to upgrade the existing railway line which was opened in 1841 by the Rhenish Railway Company. When it was continued into Belgium in 1843, it became the world's first international railway line.
Information board at the opening of the line from Cologne to Aachen in Düren
Burtscheider Viaduct
Düren station in 1920
Typical S-Bahn stop in Merzenich