| Sindorf | |
| Native Name Lang: | de |
| Symbol: | s |
| Symbol Location: | rhine-ruhr |
| Type: | Through station |
| Address: | Schulze Delitzsch Straße 8, Sindorf, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 50.9033°N 6.6805°W |
| Platforms: | 1 |
| Zone: | VRS 2870[1] |
| Opened: |
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| Website: | www.bahnhof.de |
| Map Type: | North Rhine-Westphalia |
Sindorf station is a train station in the town of Sindorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia on the Cologne–Aachen high-speed railway. The station is in the south-east of the Kerpen district of Sindorf and has a side platform on the south side of the S-Bahn line. This is bounded to the south by a noise barrier and the entrances and exits are at the ends of the platform.
The original Sindorf station was opened at line-km 22.4 of the Cologne–Aachen railway in 1912 and had a platform north and south of the original line. With the commissioning of the S-Bahn tracks in 2002, the station was relocated to line-km 21.4 and redesignated as a halt. In 2004, citizens complained to the then Minister of Transport Axel Horstmann about the width of the platform. They considered that the three-metre-wide platform was too narrow, which was particularly evident in peak hour traffic.[2] As a result, the ticket machines were relocated.[3] After renewed criticism, the Zweckverband Nahverkehr Rheinland (Rhineland Municipal Transport Association) issued a report in early 2010, in which the maximum capacity of the platform was given as 190 people. However, a maximum of 164 people were recorded in passenger counts in the morning peak hour, which means that the requirements are formally met.
The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S13 between Sindorf or Düren and Troisdorf and by S19 between Düren and Au (Sieg). Together these provide a service every 20 minutes to Cologne on working days and every 30 minutes on the weekend.[4]