Wuppertal-Vohwinkel station

Wuppertal-Vohwinkel
Deutsche Bahn Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
Through station

Entrance building
Location Bahnhofstr. 14-16, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°14′2.7″N 7°4′17.15″E / 51.234083°N 7.0714306°E / 51.234083; 7.0714306Coordinates: 51°14′2.7″N 7°4′17.15″E / 51.234083°N 7.0714306°E / 51.234083; 7.0714306
Line(s)
Platforms 8
Construction
Architectural style Art Nouveau
Other information
Station code 6937
DS100 codeKWV[1]
IBNR8006718
Category4[2]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 10 April 1841[3]

Vohwinkel station is the most western station in the city of Wuppertal. It is located in the district of Vohwinkel. It is a triangular station, built at a railway junction.

Interior

History

The original station was built slightly further west than the present station in 1841 by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company. The Prince William Railway was extended to Vohwinkel in 1848, creating a railway junction. The present building was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the Prussian state railways to the design of Alexander Rüdell.[4][5]

In the early 20th century a three km long marshalling yard was built to the west of the station, but it has since been closed and demolished.

In addition to the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld through line and the branch to the former Prince William line (now the line to Essen), in the past there was a railway line connecting to the now closed Wuppertal Northern Railway and the now closed Corkscrew line from Solingen terminated there.

Services

No long distance services stop at the station, but it is served by Regional-Express services Wupper-Express (RE 4) and Maas-Wupper-Express (RE 13), the Rhein-Wupper-Bahn Regionalbahn service and lines S8 and S9 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.[6]

Lines Route
RE 4 Aachen Herzogenrath Mönchengladbach Düsseldorf Wuppertal-Vohwinkel Wuppertal Hagen Dortmund
RE 13 Venlo Viersen – Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal – Hagen Hamm (Westf)
RB 48 Bonn-Mehlem Bonn Cologne Solingen Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal Wuppertal-Oberbarmen
S 8 Mönchengladbach Neuss – Düsseldorf Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal Schwelm – Hagen
S 9 Haltern am See – Bottrop Essen – Velbert-Langenberg Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal
S 68 Langenfeld (Rheinl) – Düsseldorf Wuppertal-Vohwinkel
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
toward Aachen Hbf
RE 4
Wupper-Express
toward Dortmund Hbf
Preceding station   eurobahn   Following station
toward Venlo
RE 13
Maas-Wupper-Express
toward Hamm Hbf
Preceding station   National Express   Following station
toward Bonn-Mehlem
RB 48
Rhein-Wupper-Bahn
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 8
toward Hagen Hbf
S 9
toward Langenfeld
S 68Terminus

It is a short walk from both Bruch and Vohwinkel (Schwebebahn) on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn

References

  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  2. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  3. "Wuppertal-Sonnborn station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
  4. "Der neue Personenbahnhof in Vohwinkel (Rheinland) (The new passenger station in Vohwinkel (Rheinland))" (in German). Prussian Ministry of Works. 1908. p. 637.
  5. Cornelius, Carl (1921). "Dr.-Ing. Alexander Rüdell †. (obituary)" (in German). Prussian Ministry of Finance. p. 3.
  6. "Wuppertal-Sonnborn station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
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