Wuppertal-Vohwinkel station
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.
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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.[6][7]
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 the Wupper-Express (RE 4), the Maas-Wupper-Express (RE 13), the Wupper-Lippe-Express and the (RE 49) Regional-Express services and the Rhein-Wupper-Bahn (RB 48) Regionalbahn service and lines S8, S9, S28 and S68 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.[8]
Lines | Route | Frequency |
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RE 4 | Aachen – Herzogenrath – Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal – Hagen – Dortmund | 60 mins |
RE 13 | Venlo – Viersen – Mönchengladbach – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal – Hagen – Hamm (Westf) | 60 mins |
RE 49 | Wesel – Oberhausen – Mülheim – Essen – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal | 60 mins |
RB 48 | Bonn-Mehlem – Bonn – Cologne – Solingen – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal – Wuppertal-Oberbarmen | 30 mins |
S8 | Mönchengladbach – Neuss – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal (– Schwelm – Hagen) | 20 min |
S9 | (Recklinghausen / Haltern am See –) Gladbeck - Bottrop – Essen – Velbert-Langenberg – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal (– Schwelm – Gevelsberg - Hagen) | 30 min Gladbeck - Wuppertal |
S28 | Kaarst – Neuss – Düsseldorf – Mettmann Zentrum – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal | 20/40 min |
S68 | Langenfeld (Rheinl) – Düsseldorf – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel | Several services in the peak, in the peak direction |
It is a short walk from both Bruch and Vohwinkel (Schwebebahn) on the Wuppertal Schwebebahn (Wuppertal Suspension Railway)
References
- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "Wabenplan für das Rheinbahn-Bedienungsgebiet" (PDF). Rheinbahn. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "Wuppertal-Vohwinkel station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ "Der neue Personenbahnhof in Vohwinkel (Rheinland) (The new passenger station in Vohwinkel (Rheinland))" (in German). Prussian Ministry of Works. 1908. p. 637.
- ^ Cornelius, Carl (1921). "Dr.-Ing. Alexander Rüdell †. (obituary)" (in German). Prussian Ministry of Finance. p. 3.
- ^ Joost, André. "Wuppertal-Vohwinkel station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 11 May 2020.