Solingen Grünewald station is in the city of Solingen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway. The line through the site of Solingen Grünewald station was opened on 12 February 1890 as part of the Solingen–Wuppertal-Vohwinkel line, known as the Korkenzieherbahn ("Corkscrew Railway"), to Vohwinkel.[6] The station was opened on 6 May 2006.[5] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1]
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| Location | Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°09′50″N 7°04′46″E / 51.16383°N 7.07957°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | DB Netz | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | DB Station&Service | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | Abellio Rail NRW | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | S7 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5778[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | KSGR[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8005597 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 3[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 6 May 2006[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The station is served by line S 7 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, branded as Der Müngstener, operated every 20 minutes from Monday to Friday and generally every half hour on weekends and at off-peak times, using (LINT 41) vehicles.[7][8] Until 15 December 2013 the station was served by Regional-Express service RB 47, operated by DB Regio NRW, normally with two-carriage sets of class 628.4. The Abellio Deutschland company won a contract that was put to tender in November 2010 and took over the operation of passenger services on the route from December 2013 for a period of 15 years.[9][10]
Since December of 2022, the Station is also served hourly by regional service RE 47 between Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof and Remscheid-Lennep, operated by Regiobahn.
It is served by a trolleybus line operated by Stadtwerke Solingen at 10-minute intervals. Stadtwerke Solingen also operates bus route 699 through the station six times a day. The station is served every 60 minutes by bus route 250 operated by Wiedenhoff.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "S7 - Der Müngstener". Stadtwerke Remscheid. Abellio Rail NRW. 15 December 2019. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 207. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ a b Joost, André. "Solingen Grünewald operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "Line 2734: Solingen - Wuppertal-Vohwinkel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ a b Joost, André. "Solingen Grünewald station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "S7: Der Müngstener". NRW rail archive (in German). Retrieved 31 May 2020.
- ^ "Abellio gewinnt Ausschreibung der RB 47". Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de (in German). 23 November 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- ^ "Bahn unterliegt Abellio bei RB 47-Ausschreibung". Rheinische Post (in German). 24 November 2010. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
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