The station Rothe Erde at Aachen seen looking towards northeast (the direction
towards Cologne) on 1 May 2007. To allow the refurbishment of the island
platform, two temporary platforms are under construction. On the left, the
trains towards Aachen Hbf will continue to use track 1, but the passengers
will board and deboard on the other side. On the right, the trains towards
Stolberg and Cologne will use the rightmost track. During the refurbishment, the
platform height will be raised to 76 cm, the freight elevator (not useable
by the passengers) will be replaced by a passenger elevator, and an additional
entrance will be installed. The three semaphores visible in the background are
intermediate signals, placed between the entrance signals (which also serve as
exit signals of Aachen Hbf in this case) and the exit signals. They will
disappear in some months, an electronic signal-box for this area is already
under construction.
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Digital photo by
<a href="http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/christoph.schmitz2/index.html">Christoph
Schmitz</a>
(<a href="mailto:christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de">christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de</a>)