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Gedenktafel Alter Bahnhof St. Hubert

At the site of the former St. Hubert railway station, a memorial plaque recalls the old "Schluff" light railway – today a historic place of remembrance on the Lower Rhine.

The memorial plaque at the old St. Hubert station marks the site of the former railway stop in the St. Hubert district of Kempen. It commemorates the old light railway known locally as the "Schluff" and makes this historic place of remembrance visible to visitors.

Die Bahnstrecke „Schluff"

The St. Hubert station stood on the Hüls–St. Hubert–Kempen–Oedt–Süchteln line, operated by the Krefelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft and known locally as the "Schluff". Passenger service on the line opened in 1871. Passenger trains ran here until 1951. The historic station site is today an excursion point and is listed by Niederrhein Tourismus as the "Alte Haltestelle St. Hubert".

The Narrow-Gauge Railway Company

Kempen's name was part of the original company title: founded in 1868 as the "Crefeld-Kreis-Kempener Industrie-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft" (CKKIE), the operator went bankrupt in 1874 and was taken over in 1880 by the Crefelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CEG, later KEG). Around 1914 its fleet comprised 19 steam locomotives, 51 passenger carriages and more than 180 goods wagons. In 1978 the company was absorbed into KREVAG, the predecessor of today's SWK Mobil. Of the former network, only the heritage line between St. Tönis and the Hülser Berg still operates — the route via St. Hubert is not part of it; passenger services there ended in 1951.

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