Essen-Steele Ost station
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Essen-Steele Ost
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Steele, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
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| Coordinates | 51°26′39″N 7°05′20″E / 51.444166°N 7.088929°ECoordinates: 51°26′39″N 7°05′20″E / 51.444166°N 7.088929°E | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 3 | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 1711 | |||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | EESO | |||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8001913 | |||||||||||||||
| Category | 4 | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1 March 1862 | |||||||||||||||
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Essen-Steele Ost station is located in the district of Essen-Steele in the German city of Essen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station. It is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 1 and S 3.
The section of the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway between Essen and Bochum via Wattenscheid was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 1 March 1862. The then Mayor of Steele, Theodor Märcker, made a contribution to the construction of the line through the purchase of shares on condition that Steele would get a connection to the line. So finally Royal Steele (Königssteele) station was opened on the same day as the section of line at the current location of Essen-Steele Ost station. It had a freight shed and an entrance building with a station restaurant.
Carl Humann, discoverer of the Pergamon Altar and later an honorary citizen of Steele, was involved in the surveying of the line. They had to overcome, among others, the problem of the steep grade from Steele towards Essen for the still weak steam locomotives. This required large embankments to be built in Steele. As a result, the construction of a station was only possible in lower Freisenbruch. In addition, good access was possible here to mines and industry.
The opening of the Ruhr bridge in Steele on 1 June 1863 connected the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr railway with the new Royal Steele station. This line had been operated by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company to the Ruhr opposite Steele since 1854, when it had taken over the Prince William Railway Company. Another connection came on 21 September 1863 with the opening of the Ruhr Valley Railway to Bochum-Dahlhausen, which was duplicated in 1910. It served freight traffic to and from the coal mines in the Ruhr valley. Royal Steele station, which had been called just Steele since 1864, was extended by a roundhouse in 1868, which was used by rolling stock until 1935. In addition, there was a rail triangle east of the station that connected the Ruhr Valley Railway with a curve directly to the line to Bochum allowing trains to avoid the station. This line was already disused before it was finally dismantled in the 1990s. The rail triangle located at Bw (locomotive depot) Steele-Nord had been closed by 1931.
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