Erkrath station

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Erkrath station
S-Bahn-Logo.svg
Through station
Beginn der Steilstrecke Erkrath Hochdahl Erkrath S-Bahnhof.JPG
Beginning of the climb to Hochdahl
General information
LocationMorper Allee 1, Erkrath, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°13′13″N6°54′11″E / 51.22038°N 6.902955°E / 51.22038; 6.902955 Coordinates: 51°13′13″N6°54′11″E / 51.22038°N 6.902955°E / 51.22038; 6.902955
Line(s) Düsseldorf–Elberfeld (KBS 450.8)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code1646 [1]
DS100 code KER [2]
IBNR8001841
Category 5 [1]
Fare zone
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened20 December 1838 [5]
Services
Preceding station S-Bahn-Logo.svg Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station
Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
towards Mönchengladbach Hbf
S8 Hochdahl
towards Hagen Hbf
Düsseldorf-Gerresheim
towards Langenfeld
S68 Hochdahl
towards Wuppertal-Vohwinkel
Location
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Erkrath station
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Erkrath station is a through station in the town of Erkrath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. [1]

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History

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The station was opened along with the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway from Düsseldorf to Erkrath by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company on 20 December 1838. [6] The line between Erkrath and Hochdahl has a gradient of 3.33% and rises 82 m in about 2.5 km. For more than one hundred years, this was the steepest main line in Europe. For many years trains had to be hauled by cable, originally driven by a stationary steam engine. A few months later haulage by cable attached to a stationary steam engine was changed to haulage by cable attached via pulleys to a locomotive running downhill on an additional track. With the duplication of the remainder of the line in 1865, the steep section of line became three-track, until the electrification of the line in 1963. The third track was rebuilt in 1985, as part of the additional third track built for the planned S-Bahn line. In 1926, cable haulage on the incline was replaced by bank engines.

Services

The station is served by the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen every 20 minutes and several S 68 services between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Langenfeld in the peak hour. [7]

It is also served by four bus routes operated by Rheinbahn: O5 (every 20–60 minutes), O6 (20), 734 (60) and 743 (60).

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Stationspreisliste 2022" [Station price list 2022](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN   978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. ↑ "Wabenplan für das Rheinbahn-Bedienungsgebiet" (PDF). Rheinbahn. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  4. ↑ "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg . Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Erkrath station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  7. ↑ "Erkrath station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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