Erkrath station

Erkrath station is a through station in the town of Erkrath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

Erkrath station
Through station
Beginning of the climb to Hochdahl
LocationMorper Allee 1, Erkrath, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates51°13′13″N 6°54′11″E
Line(s)Düsseldorf–Elberfeld (KBS 450.8)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code1646[1]
DS100 codeKER[2]
IBNR8001841
Category5[1]
Fare zone
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened20 December 1838 [5]
Services
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 8
toward Hagen Hbf
toward Langenfeld
S 68
Location
Erkrath station
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

History

The station was opened along with the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway from Düsseldorf to Erkrath by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company on 20 December 1838.[6] The line between Erkrath and Hochdahl has a gradient of 3.33% and rises 82 m in about 2.5 km. For more than one hundred years, this was the steepest main line in Europe. For many years trains had to be hauled by cable, originally driven by a stationary steam engine. A few months later haulage by cable attached to a stationary steam engine was changed to haulage by cable attached via pulleys to a locomotive running downhill on an additional track. With the duplication of the remainder of the line in 1865, the steep section of line became three-track, until the electrification of the line in 1963. The third track was rebuilt in 1985, as part of the additional third track built for the planned S-Bahn line. In 1926, cable haulage on the incline was replaced by bank engines.

Services

The station is served by the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen every 20 minutes and several S 68 services between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Langenfeld in the peak hour.[7]

It is also served by four bus routes operated by Rheinbahn: O5 (every 20–60 minutes), O6 (20), 734 (60) and 743 (60).

References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (10 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. "Wabenplan für das Rheinbahn-Bedienungsgebiet" (PDF). Rheinbahn. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  4. "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  5. "Erkrath station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  6. "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  7. "Erkrath station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
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