Schwelm station is the most important station in the city of Schwelm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. All regional and S-Bahn trains stop at the station. Long-distance services pass through without stopping.
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| Location | Bahnhofsplatz 2, Schwelm, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°17′26.2″N 7°17′21.4″E / 51.290611°N 7.289278°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5749 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | KSWE[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000033 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 3 [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1847[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History
editThe first station building was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 9 October 1847 along with its Elberfeld–Dortmund line.[6][5] Since its inauguration, the station has been rebuilt several times, starting in 1865. In 1902, the platforms received a canopy and, on 8 November 1902, an underpass was completed to the second platform.[7] In 1926, Schwelm became a railway junction, when the Witten–Wengern Ost/Schwelm railway was opened by Deutsche Reichsbahn.[8]
In 1988, the station became part of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, on line S 8 from Hagen via Wuppertal to Mönchengladbach. This uses a flying junction built by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the 1980s that takes the S-Bahn tracks from Wuppertal to Schwelm under the parallel mainline tracks running towards Hagen directly east of Schwelm station, connecting via a short section of the Witten–Wengern Ost/Schwelm line (the rest of which is closed) to the partially closed Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway towards Gevelsberg-West.
Platforms
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The station has four platform tracks, which are accessed from two island platforms. Services on S-Bahn line S 8 stop on tracks 1 and 2. The Regional-Express services on lines RE 4 (Wupper-Express), RE 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express) and RE 13 (Maas-Wupper-Express) use tracks 3 and 4, which are also used by the non-stopping long-distance trains. The station is served by Regional-Express services RE 4, RE 7 and RE 13, Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Hagen and line S 9 between Recklinghausen and Hagen, all every 60 minutes.[9]
Both platforms have been barrier-free accessible by lift since 2022.[10] Apart from ticket machines, tickets can only be bought in the Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr (VER) customer centre on the station square.
Notes
edit- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "VER-Tarifinformation". Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "Ticket Überblick" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 1 January 2020. p. 17. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ a b Joost, André. "Operations in Schwelm station area". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Gerhard Kleinhempel (1979). Schwelm in alten Ansichten (in German). Vol. 1. Zaltbommel: Europäische Bibliothek.
- ^ Joost, André. "Line 2143: Witten - Schwelm". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "Schwelm station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
- ^ "Stationsbericht 2022" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
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