Kettwig Stausee station

Kettwig Stausee
Hp
Other names	Kettwig-Pusch
Location	Kettwig, Essen, NRW Germany
Coordinates	51°21′23″N 6°56′20″E / 51.356495°N 6.938885°E
Line(s)	Ruhr Valley Railway (KBS 450.6 S 6) formerly Lower Ruhr Valley Railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	3167
DS100 code	EKGS
Category	6[1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	28 May 1945[2]
Key dates
1968/1974	S-Bahn service started

Kettwig Stausee is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany on the Ruhr Valley line. It serves the southern part of the Kettwig borough, Kettwig vor der Brücke, and is situated right next to the river Ruhr.

History

The station was opened in 1945 as Kettwig-Pusch after the German army had destroyed the Ruhr bridges in Kettwig during the last days of World War II. It was used to connect the railway lines to Mülheim an der Ruhr, Düsseldorf and Velbert with each other. After a single Ruhr bridge was rebuilt, the station was renamed Kettwig Stausee in 1953. In 1960, services to Velbert and in 1968 services to Mülheim ended. The station building was torn down in 1981, and the station was downgraded to a mere S-Bahn stop.

The station today sees regular service by Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn trains on the S6 line.^[3]

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
2. "Kettwig Stausee station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
3. "Kettwig Stausee station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 October 2011.