Schwelm station

Schwelm station is the most important station in the city of Schwelm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. All regional and S-Bahn trains stop at the station. Long distance services pass through without stopping.

Schwelm
Through station
Location	Bahnhofsplatz 2, Schwelm, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°17′26.2″N 7°17′21.4″E
Line(s)	Elberfeld–Dortmund
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	5749
DS100 code	KSWE[1]
IBNR	8000033
Category	3 [2]
Fare zone	VRR: 678[3] VRS: 1670 (VRR transitional tariff)[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1847[5]
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Wuppertal-Oberbarmen toward Aachen Hbf RE 4 Wupper-Express Ennepetal toward Dortmund Hbf Preceding station   Eurobahn   Following station Wuppertal-Oberbarmen toward Venlo RE 13 Maas-Wupper-Express Ennepetal toward Hamm Hbf Preceding station   National Express Germany   Following station Wuppertal-Oberbarmen toward Krefeld Hbf RE 7 Rhein-Münsterland-Express Ennepetal toward Rheine Hbf Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station Schwelm West toward Mönchengladbach Hbf S 8 Gevelsberg West toward Hagen Hbf Schwelm West toward Haltern am See S 9 Gevelsberg West toward Hagen Hbf

History

The first station building was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 9 October 1847 along with its Elberfeld–Dortmund line.[6][5] Since its inauguration, the station has been rebuilt several times, starting in 1865. In 1902, the platforms received a canopy and, on 8 November 1902, an underpass was completed to the second platform.[7] In 1926, Schwelm became a railway junction, when the Witten–Wengern Ost/Schwelm railway was opened by Deutsche Reichsbahn.[8]

In 1988, the station became part of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, on line S 8 from Hagen via Wuppertal to Mönchengladbach. This uses a flying junction built by the Deutsche Bundesbahn in the 1980s that takes the S-Bahn tracks from Wuppertal to Schwelm under the parallel mainline tracks running towards Hagen directly east of Schwelm station, connecting via a short section of the Witten–Wengern Ost/Schwelm line (the rest of which is closed) to the partially closed Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway towards Gevelsberg-West.

Platforms

From the platform

The station has four platform tracks, which are accessed from two island platforms. Services on S-Bahn line S 8 stop on tracks 1 and 2. The Regional-Express services on lines RE 4 (Wupper-Express), RE 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express) and RE 13 (Maas-Wupper-Express) use tracks 3 and 4, which are also used by the non-stopping long distance trains. Only the S-Bahn tracks can be reached by lift. In the entrance hall of the station building, there is a Deutsche Bahn ticket office and ticket vending machines.

The station is served by Regional-Express services RE 4, RE 7 and RE 13, Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Hagen and line S 9 between Haltern am See and Hagen, all every 60 minutes.[9]

Notes

1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
2. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
3. "VER-Tarifinformation". Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
4. "Ticket Überblick" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 1 January 2020. p. 17. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
5. Joost, André. "Operations in Schwelm station area". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
6. Joost, André. "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
7. Gerhard Kleinhempel (1979). Schwelm in alten Ansichten (in German). 1. Zaltbommel: Europäische Bibliothek.
8. Joost, André. "Line 2143: Witten - Schwelm". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
9. Joost, André. "Schwelm station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.

External links