Ennepetal (Gevelsberg) station

Ennepetal (Gevelsberg) station
Through station
Location	Bahnhofstraße 19, Ennepetal, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°18′16″N 7°20′37″E / 51.30444°N 7.34361°ECoordinates: 51°18′16″N 7°20′37″E / 51.30444°N 7.34361°E
Line(s)	Elberfeld–Dortmund
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	1603
DS100 code	EENP[1]
IBNR	8001795
Category	5[2]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	9 March 1849
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Schwelm toward Aachen Hbf RE 4 Wupper-Express Hagen Hbf toward Dortmund Hbf Preceding station   eurobahn   Following station Schwelm toward Venlo RE 13 Maas-Wupper-Express Hagen Hbf toward Hamm Hbf Preceding station   National Express   Following station Schwelm toward Krefeld Hbf RE 7 Rhein-Münsterland-Express Hagen Hbf toward Rheine Hbf

Ennepetal (Gevelsberg) station is a 160-year-old station on the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway built by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company. It is in the city of Ennepetal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The former station building is one of the oldest of its kind in North Rhine-Westphalia and has been listed as a monument since 1986. The station is on the Industrial Heritage Trail.^[3]

History

With the construction of the Elberfeld–Dortmund line by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company in 1848, a station was opened in Milspe, now a suburb of Ennepetal, on 9 March 1849. The station was a timber-framed building. It was called Milspe station until 1954, when it was renamed Ennepetal-Milspe, reflecting the merger of the towns of Milspe and Voerde as Ennepetal 1949. With the closure of Gevelsberg station on the line in 1963, the neighbouring town Gevelsberg no longer had its own station on the Elberfeld–Dortmund line. Thus in 1968 Ennepetal-Milspe station was renamed again as Ennepetal (Gevelsberg) station, although it lies entirely within the city of Ennepetal.^[3]

Services

The station is now served only by Regional-Express services, RE 4 (Wupper-Express), RE 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express) and RE 13 (Maas-Wupper-Express).^[4] The platform for trains towards Hagen could only be reached at ground level for decades, while the platform for trains towards Wuppertal could only be reached by a subway. In 2010, the existing platform tunnel was rebuilt and extended under the street. Today, there are stairs to the platform and since mid-2011 a lift as well. The central platform has been rebuilt with two new platform edges with a height of 76 cm. This makes the station fully accessible for the disabled for Eurobahn trains, but not for the double-decker trains of DB Regio, with their different floor heights. The wooden platform canopy was preserved and repainted.

Notes

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
3. "Bahnhof Ennepetal" (in German). Route Industriekultur. Retrieved 17 April 2016.
4. "Ennepetal station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 17 April 2016.

External links

• "Ennepetal station" (in German). City of Ennepetal. Retrieved 5 September 2011.