The station Rothe Erde at Aachen seen looking towards northeast (the direction towards Cologne) on 19 June 2007. The temporary side platforms are in use while the island platform is refurbished. The roof was removed, the columns can be seen on the ground between track 2 and track 3 on the right. The building at the far end of the island platform is the staircase, the building containing the freight elevator behind it is not visible. This view also shows the signal-box Rpf next to track 1 (left) behind the semaphore. One of the new Ks signals which will replace the semaphores was already placed at track 3, a white cross marks it as still invalid.

Digital photo by Christoph Schmitz (christoph.schmitz2@post.rwth-aachen.de)