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
General information
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 DB Regio NRW Following station Wuppertal-Oberbarmen towards Aachen Hbf RE 4 Ennepetal towards Dortmund Hbf Preceding station Eurobahn Following station Wuppertal-Oberbarmen towards Venlo RE 13 Ennepetal towards Hamm (Westf) Hbf Preceding station National Express Germany Following station Wuppertal-Oberbarmen towards Krefeld Hbf RE 7 Ennepetal towards Rheine Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station Schwelm West towards Mönchengladbach Hbf S8 Gevelsberg West towards Hagen Hbf Schwelm West towards Haltern am See or Recklinghausen Hbf S9

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

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 Recklinghausen and Hagen, all every 60 minutes.[9]

Notes

External links

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