Remscheid Central Station
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Remscheid Hauptbahnhof
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| Location |
Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°10′36″N 7°11′56″E / 51.176769°N 7.198974°ECoordinates: 51°10′36″N 7°11′56″E / 51.176769°N 7.198974°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
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| Station code | 5217 |
| DS100 code | KR |
| Category | 5 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 September 1868 |
Remscheid Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the Bergisch city of Remscheid in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in Willy-Brandt-Platz near central Remscheid and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. Remscheid and Gevelsberg Hauptbahnhof are the only Hauptbahnhofs in Germany only served by S-Bahn trains.
On 1 September 1868, the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft) opened the first section of the Rittershausen–Opladen line from Oberbarmen (then called Rittershausen) to Lennep, together with a branch line to Remscheid, giving the city its first rail connection. Remscheid station (now called Remscheid Hauptbahnhof) and its attached buildings were built of timber.
A branch line to Hasten was opened on 1 September 1883, and the Lennep–Remscheid line was duplicated up to 1891. Five years later, a branch to Bliedinghausen was added, but has only ever been used for freight.
As part of the construction of the line to Bliedinghausen the platforms were modified. Passenger trains to Hasten previously ran from their own terminal platform west of the station building. The sidings located east of Bismarckstraße later became the Remscheid East yard, which was connected to the station by a four track bridge over Bismarckstraße in 1900.
During the construction of the connecting line to Solingen via Güldenwerth over the Müngsten Bridge the locomotive depot was closed due to lack of space in early 1896 and locomotive maintenance was transferred to the depot in nearby Lennep.
In 1897 the gap between Solingen Süd and Remscheid was finally closed and in 1907 the route was duplicated. Thus Remscheid station now had rail connections in four directions (and also via Lennep towards Opladen). On 10 August 1911, a formal station building made of stone was inaugurated, replacing the existing building, which was called the Zigarrenkiste ("cigar box") because of its limited space. The line to Hasten ended again at a bay platform to the west of the station building. The main two tracks ran between a central platform and a "home" platform (next to the station building), connected by a pedestrian bridge and a tunnel for the railway post office. The new building included a rebuilt section of the hall of Elberfeld-Döppersberg station (which was closed in 1848 when Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof opened). Freight operations were moved in 1911 to the southern side of the station’s track field.
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