Finnentrop station

Finnentrop
Junction station
Finnentrop station
Location	Iserlohn, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°10′22″N 7°57′52″E / 51.17278°N 7.96444°E / 51.17278; 7.96444Coordinates: 51°10′22″N 7°57′52″E / 51.17278°N 7.96444°E / 51.17278; 7.96444
Line(s)	Ruhr–Sieg railway Finnentrop–Freudenberg railway former Finnentrop–Wennemen railway
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	1793
DS100 code	EFP
IBNR	8000102
Category	4
History
Opened	6 August 1861
Services
Preceding station   Abellio Rail NRW   Following station Plettenberg toward Essen Hbf RE 16 Ruhr-Sieg-Express Lennestadt-Grevenbrück toward Siegen Plettenberg toward Hagen Hbf RB 91 Ruhr-Sieg-Bahn Lennestadt-Grevenbrück toward Siegen Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station Terminus RB 92 Biggesee-Express Heggen toward Olpe

Finnentrop station is a railway junction on the Ruhr–Sieg railway between Hagen and Siegen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station is located on the territory of the municipality of Finnentrop in the district of Olpe. The Bigge Valley Railway to Olpe branches off here and it was also the start of the Finnentrop–Wennemen railway, which was closed in 1996. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.

Finnentrop station was established during the construction of the Ruhr–Sieg line from 1858 to 1861 and the station buildings were completed in 1860. Located in the village of Neubrucke, it was called Finnentrop after a nearby estate and the district was given the same name in 1908. The first entrance building was built in 1870. This was replaced by a new building in 1898 because of increasing traffic and then served until its demolition in 1937 as housing for railway families. A locomotive depot was built in the 1870s in conjunction with the building of the branch lines to Olpe and Wennemen. However, only one locomotive was stationed there in 1892. Together with Altenhundem, the station gradually developed into one of the operating centres of the Ruhr–Sieg line. In 1914, after the closure of an on-site locomotive depot at the Finnentrop steel works in 1901, the station’s locomotive depot became an independent depot. In the First World War, a field kitchen was set up next to the station and a medical team was established in the station waiting room. After World War II, 660 people were employed at the station.

In 2002, the Deutsche Bahn AG installed a ticket machine in the station building. Two years later, the municipality took over the building. As part of the modernisation program for stations, North Rhine-Westphalia invested about €1 million in the remodeling of the station. In late 2007, during the first phase the station building was demolished and the station forecourt was completely redesigned. A citizens' initiative had previously made proposals for new uses of the building. A new platform access bridge with elevators was erected, the three platforms were raised to 76 cm high and a multi-use platform was built: buses now stop directly opposite the trains now, making a barrier-free transition possible.