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Location | Bahnhofsplatz 2,
Schwelm,
North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°17′26.2″N 7°17′21.4″E / 51.290611°N 7.289278°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | 5749 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DS100 code | KSWE [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8000033 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Category | 3 [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1847 [5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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.
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. 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]
Both platforms have been barrier-free accessible by lift since 2022. [10] Apart from ticket machines, tickets can only be bought in the Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr (VER) customer centre on the station square.