Lüdenscheid station

Brügge (Westf)
Terminus
Former station building (demolished in 2009)
Location	Lüdenscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°13′14″N 7°37′44″E / 51.22054°N 7.6289°ECoordinates: 51°13′14″N 7°37′44″E / 51.22054°N 7.6289°E
Line(s)	Brügge–Lüdenscheid (KBS 434)
Platforms	1
Other information
Station code	3828[1]
DS100 code	ELS[2]
Category	6[1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	6 September 1874 [3]

Lüdenscheid station is the terminus of a single-track branch line from Brügge to Lüdenscheid in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It branches in Brügge from the Hagen–Dieringhausen railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.^[1]

The station is on the edge of the centre of the district town of Lüdenscheid. The only platform extends up to Bahnhofstrasse (station street) and is at ground level. Central Lüdenscheid is easily accessible within a few minutes. Around the station the Lüdenscheid suburb of Grünewald also extends to the north and west and Knapp extends to the south.

History

New Lüdenscheid station (June 2009)

The railway line between Brügge (Westfalen) station and Lüdenscheid station opened in 1880 by the Prussian state railways. Five years later, the metre-gauge Altena District Railway (Kreis Altenaer Eisenbahn, KAE) was opened, which had its station near the state station. Even today, there is a narrow road in Lüdenscheid that follows the route of the Altena District Railway from the current Altenaer Straße to the Lüdenscheid station of the KAE. Lüdenscheid had 20,000 inhabitants in 1894 and, according to archive reports, it was the most industrialised city in Germany in 1895. Thus, traffic at Lüdenscheid station had been increasing rapidly and has been further enhanced by freight traffic fed by the KAE.^[4][5]

In 1963, a concept of the urban management of Lüdenscheid was presented in which the current Sauerfelder Straße would be rebuilt on 2 levels and the Brügge–Lüdenscheid railway would be placed underground running from Lüdenscheid station at a grade of only one percent. The railway line would then have terminated at a second underground station in the central transport hub of Sauerfeld in central Lüdenscheid. In addition, 500 parking spaces would have been built below the square in front of the current town hall. At the time this project was considered to be a utopian idea, but it was rejected.^[6]

The formerly important station building of Lüdenscheid station, which had been built in 1960, was demolished in 2009. Located in this building there was a ticket office, a restaurant and a waiting room. In place of the old station building a four-storey building has been built with a driving school, a newsagent, a taxi company, a bakery and toilets. This will offer rail passengers an attractive waiting room.^[7][8] On 27 July 2012, a report appeared in the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten that a new building will be completed in 2013 with a DB service centre, waiting room and toilets for passengers. In addition, there will be apartments for students at the local university and commercial space such as for medical services.^[9]

Station area

On the precincts of the former station are now located the Lüdenscheid tax office and a wood trading company. In addition, a new campus of the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen (University of Applied Sciences of South Westphalia) for up to 600 students was built by February 2012.^[10] In addition, some service companies have relocated on the site.

The adjacent Bahnhofallee has been recently connected via the street of Zum Weißen Pferd to Altenaer Straße and can be used by both cars and buses. In addition, a walkway now connects Bahnhofallee to the upper end of Zum Weißen Pferd. Until then, Bahnhofallee had been a dead end for vehicles and pedestrian and could only be reached from the station area.

Rail services

The station is currently served by one Regionalbahn line:^[11]

Line	Route	Frequency
RB 52 Volmetal-Bahn	Lüdenscheid – Brügge (Westf) – Schalksmühle – Hagen – Dortmund	Hourly

The trains reverse at the station.

Bus services

Bus services are operated the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft (Märkische Transport Company, MVG) and Busverkehr Ruhr-Sieg (Ruhr-Sieg Bus Transport, BRS) on several routes. Since the timetable change in August 2010, the station has been the second central bus station (ZOB) in Lüdenscheid) with Lüdenscheid Sauerfeld. The station consists of five bus bays, 4 of which connect directly with the platform, and is served by 18 bus routes:^[11]

Line	Route	Frequency (mins) (Mon–Fri)	Frequency (mins) (Sat)	Frequency (mins) (Sun)
S1	Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Iserlohn) – Altena, Bahnhof – Nachrodt, Amtshaus – Iserlohn, Stadtbahnhof – Iserlohn, Konrad-Adenauer-Ring central bus station	30 / 60	No services	No services
S2	Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Worth – Werdohl station – Plettenberg, Ohle Post – Plettenberg, Bahnhof – Plettenberg, Grünestraße central bus station	30 / 60	60	60
41	Lüdenscheid, Schubertstraße – Lüdenscheid station (runs in both directions) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Worth – Lüdenscheid, Eichholz	15 / 30	15 / 30	30
42	Lüdenscheid, Noell – Lüdenscheid station (runs in both directions) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Niederschemm Wendestelle	30 / 60	30 / 60	60
43	Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Worth – Lüdenscheid, Am Flachsacker	120	120	No services
44	Lüdenscheid, Freisenberg – Lüdenscheid station (runs in both directions) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Europa-Allee	30 / 60	30 / 60	60
46	Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Nattenberg – Lüdenscheid, Im Hasley – Lüdenscheid, Baukloh	60	60	120
47	Lüdenscheid, Eichholz – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Halver) – Lüdenscheid, Brügge Bahnhof – Halver, Ostendorf	30 / 60	30 / 60	60
49	Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Iserlohn) – Nachrodt, Amtshaus – Iserlohn, Lasbeck	Irregular services	Irregular services	No services
51	Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Am Brutenberg	30 / (bus route 54)	30 / (bus route 54)	No services / (bus route 54)
54	Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Herscheid, Markt – Herscheid, Hüinghausen – Plettenberg, Grünestraße central bus station	30 / 60	30 / 60	60
87	Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Schalksmühle) – Schalksmühle, Reeswinkel	30 / 60	60	60
134	Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Radevormwald) – Radevormwald bus station	30 / 60	60	60
246	Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Im Hasley – Lüdenscheid, Nattenberg – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Lüdenscheid, Hs. Schöneck) – Lüdenscheid, Haus Schöneck	Irregular services	No services	No services
252	Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Meinerzhagen, Valbert Ort – Meinerzhagen, Stadthalle central bus station (excursion bus route)	No services	No services	120
254	Plettenberg, Grünestraße central bus station – Herscheid, Hüinghausen – Herscheid, Markt – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Lüdenscheid, Wehberg) – Lüdenscheid, Wehberg Wendestelle	Irregular services	No services	No services
N4	Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Schalksmühle) – Schalksmühle, Rathausplatz – Schalksmühle, Mitte – Schalksmühle, Strücken (night bus route)	1 service on Fri at about 0:12 AM	1 service on Sat at about 0:12 AM	No services
N7	Plettenberg station – Herscheid, Hüinghausen – Herscheid, Markt – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Christuskirche) - Lüdenscheid, Christuskirche (night bus route)	1 service on Fri at about 1:58 AM	1 service on Sat at about 1:58 AM	No services

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Lüdenscheid station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
4. "Daten zur Geschichte der Stadt Lüdenscheid" (in German). City of luedenscheid. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
5. "Lüdenscheid - Mit der KAE kam Anschluss an die Welt". Westfälischen Rundschau (in German). 12 July 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
6. "Utopische Vorstellung". Lüdenscheider Nachrichten (in German). 30 March 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
7. "Stadt führt Gespräche - Doch ein Bahnhof mit Warteraum und Läden". Westfälischen Rundschau (in German). 4 September 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
8. "Technik bald überflüssig - Bahnhof zum Abriss frei". Westfälischen Rundschau (in German). 16 April 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
9. "Neuer Bahnhof wieder in Sicht". Lüdenscheider Nachrichten (in German). 27 July 2012.
10. "Fachhochschulgebäude für bis zu 600 Studenten". Lüdenscheider Nachrichten (in German). 12 May 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
11. "Lüdenscheid station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 October 2013.

External links

• "Bahnhof Lüdenscheid (photos)" (in German). Riedelfoto. Retrieved 29 October 2013.