Schwelm West station

Schwelm West station
Through station
Location Schwelm, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°17′08″N 7°16′10″E / 51.285526°N 7.269478°E / 51.285526; 7.269478Coordinates: 51°17′08″N 7°16′10″E / 51.285526°N 7.269478°E / 51.285526; 7.269478
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 5750
DS100 codeKSWW
Category6 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 29 May 1988 [2]

Schwelm West station is a through station in the town of Schwelm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 29 May 1988 on a section of the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway from Döppersberg, near the current Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, to Schwelm that was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 9 October 1847.[3] It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.[1]

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Hagen twice an hour (with intervals of 20 and 40 minutes alternatively).[4]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 8
toward Hagen Hbf

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. "Schwelm West station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  3. "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  4. "Schwelm West station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
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