Erkrath station
Erkrath station | |
|---|---|
| Through station | |
 Beginning of the climb to Hochdahl | |
| Location |
Erkrath, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°13′13″N 6°54′11″E / 51.22038°N 6.902955°ECoordinates: 51°13′13″N 6°54′11″E / 51.22038°N 6.902955°E |
| Line(s) | |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 1646 |
| DS100 code | KER |
| Category | 5 [1] |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 20 December 1838 [2] |
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]
History
The station was opened along with the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway from Düsseldorf to Erkrath by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company on 20 December 1838.[3] 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.[4]
| Preceding station | Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
toward Mönchengladbach Hbf | S 8 | toward Hagen Hbf |
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toward Langenfeld | S 68 | toward Wuppertal-Vohwinkel Hbf |
It is also served by four bus routes operated by Rheinbahn: O5 (every 20-60 minutes), O6 (20), 734 (60) and 743 (60).
Notes
- 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
- ↑ "Erkrath station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ↑ "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ↑ "Erkrath station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
