Bottrop Hauptbahnhof

Bottrop Hauptbahnof
Through station
New station building
Location	Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°30′35″N 6°56′11″E / 51.50972°N 6.93639°E / 51.50972; 6.93639Coordinates: 51°30′35″N 6°56′11″E / 51.50972°N 6.93639°E / 51.50972; 6.93639
Line(s)	Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Haltern Essen–Bottrop Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Bottrop Gbf Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 9
Platforms	3
Other information
Station code	804
DS100 code	EBTH
Category	4
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1905: PSE 1995: DB

Bottrop Hauptbahnof is a railway station in Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located on the Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd – Hamm railway and Essen–Bottrop railway and is served by RE, RB and S-Bahn services operated by DB and NordWestBahn.

On 12 November 1879, the Royal Westphalian Railway Company opened the Horst–Osterfeld section of its Welver-Sterkrade line, but failed to build a station in Bottrop city. Just one year later the company was nationalised and the line was partly dismantled.

On 1 May 1905 the Prussian state railways opened the Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway, which runs parallel to the Westphalian route from Osterfeld Süd to the east for about four kilometres to the current Bottrop Hauptbahnhof and then swings to the north. On this line a station was opened nearly half a kilometre east of the present station then called West Bottrop station. This station was designed with station building on an island between two tracks to the east of Bahnhofsstraße.

At about the same time, the Bottrop CME station of the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Dortmund railway was renamed Bottrop Süd and the Bottrop RhE station of the former Rhenish Railway Company on the Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway was renamed Bottrop Nord.