Schwelm station

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Schwelm
Logo Deutsche Bahn.svg S-Bahn-Logo.svg
Through station
Schwelm - Bahnhof 02 ies.jpg
General information
LocationBahnhofsplatz 2, Schwelm, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°17′26.2″N7°17′21.4″E / 51.290611°N 7.289278°E / 51.290611; 7.289278
Line(s)
Platforms4
Other information
Station code5749
DS100 code KSWE [1]
IBNR8000033
Category 3 [2]
Fare zone
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1847 [5]
Services
Preceding station Eurobahn Following station
Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
towards Venlo
RE 13 Ennepetal
towards Hamm (Westf) Hbf
Preceding station National Express Germany Following station
Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
towards Aachen Hbf
RE 4 (Wupper-Express) Ennepetal
towards Dortmund Hbf
Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
towards Krefeld Hbf
RE 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express) Ennepetal
towards Rheine
Preceding station S-Bahn-Logo.svg Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station
Schwelm West
towards Mönchengladbach Hbf
S8 Gevelsberg West
towards Hagen Hbf
Schwelm West
towards Haltern am See or Recklinghausen Hbf
S9

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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History

The 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

From the platform Schwelm - Bahnhof 04 ies.jpg
From the platform

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

  1. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN   978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "VER-Tarifinformation". Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  4. ↑ "Ticket Überblick" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 1 January 2020. p. 17. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  5. 1 2 Joost, André. "Operations in Schwelm station area". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  6. ↑ Joost, André. "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  7. ↑ Gerhard Kleinhempel (1979). Schwelm in alten Ansichten (in German). Vol. 1. Zaltbommel: Europäische Bibliothek.
  8. ↑ Joost, André. "Line 2143: Witten - Schwelm". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  9. ↑ Joost, André. "Schwelm station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  10. ↑ "Stationsbericht 2022" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr . Retrieved 28 May 2023.

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