Essen-Überruhr station

Essen-Überruhr station
Through station
Location Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°25′45″N 7°04′09″E / 51.429233°N 7.069132°E / 51.429233; 7.069132Coordinates: 51°25′45″N 7°04′09″E / 51.429233°N 7.069132°E / 51.429233; 7.069132
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 1712
DS100 codeEEUE
Category5 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 1 December 1847 [2][3]

Essen-Überruhr station is located in the district of Überruhr in the city of Essen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

The station was opened on 1 December 1847 by the Prince William Railway Company as the northern terminus of its Vohwinkel–Überruhr line, after its takeover, standardisation and extension of the Deil Valley Railway Company's line from Kupferdreh to Nierenhof (the oldest German railway).[2][4]

It is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 9 (Haltern–Wuppertal), operating every 20 minutes during the day.[5]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 9

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 Busch, J. Rainer; Deilmann, H.G. (1992). Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn—Die erste Eisenbahn-Aktiengesellschaft auf deutschem Boden (Prince William Railway Company—The first railway corporation on German soil) (in German). Essen.
  3. ↑ "Essen-Überruhr station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  4. ↑ "Der Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn" (in German). Pro Niederbergbahn e.V. Retrieved 11 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "Essen-Überruhr station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 11 October 2011.


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