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Jülich - Kirchberg

16/17-10-2005
As I had to make a detour anyway to cross the river Rur, I more or less followed the 'double' railroad from Jülich to Kirchberg. One railroad, already removed, was the DB railroad Aachen Nord - Hoengen - Jülich, finished in 1882 by the Aachener Industriebahn Actiengesellschaft. The other is the Jülicher Kreisbahn, a local railroad ending in Puffendorf where goods and passengers could be exchanged with the narrow-gauge railroad Geilenkirchener Kreisbahn.


The former stationbuilding of the Jülicher Kreisbahn, Jülich-Nord .

Jülich-Nord, with in the distance a small locomotive shed.

Left over rails from Jülich Nord towards Kirchberg

And this is the DB track from Jülich station to Kirchberg
In Kirchberg goodswagons were exchanged between the Deutche Bahn and the Jülicher Kreisbahn. When the DB tracks were removed a connection was made between the DB tracks to Jülich station and the Jülicher Kreisbahn so the Kreisbahn would not become an island-railroad with no connections with the rest of the railroad network.

Approaching the Kreisbahn bridge crossing the Rur.

The Kreisbahn bridge and the DB-bridge, which has been transformed into a bicycle bridge after the rails were removed.

Kirchberg. A weighing bridge hidden in the trees.

Kirchberg

"Fährbootwagen verwendbar für den Guterverkehr zwichen dem Festland und Großbritanien" (Ferrycar)
Seems the museum railroad Dampfbahn Rur-Wurm-Inde eV left some of there cars behind when they were forced to move from Jülich Nord
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