Wuppertal-Steinbeck station

Wuppertal-Steinbeck station
Through station
Station entrance
Location	Hoefstr. 4, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°15′03″N 7°08′27″E / 51.25094336°N 7.14076352°E / 51.25094336; 7.14076352Coordinates: 51°15′03″N 7°08′27″E / 51.25094336°N 7.14076352°E / 51.25094336; 7.14076352
Line(s)	Düsseldorf–Elberfeld (KBS 450.8)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	6935
DS100 code	KWS
Category	5
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1841–1847 1855/70
Services
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station Wuppertal Zoologischer Garten toward Mönchengladbach Hbf S 8 Wuppertal Hbf toward Hagen Hbf Wuppertal Zoologischer Garten toward Haltern am See S 9 Wuppertal Hbf Terminus

Wuppertal-Steinbeck station is a station on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway in the city of Wuppertal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The current station building was built in 1913 and it has been heritage-listed since 1991. It replaced an older station building that was built between 1860 and 1870. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.

The Düsseldorf–Elberfeld line was openedi n 1841 by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company and was one of the first railways in western Germany. In order to avoid a steep climb, the line ended before Döppers Berg (hill), about one kilometre from the centre of the town of Elberfeld (now central Wuppertal). Originally a little station building was built at the railhead.

A few years later, the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway of the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company was built from Dortmund, which originally ended on the other side of the Döppers Berg. On 28 December 1848, a line was opened connecting the two lines together, making a continuous connection in the valley of the Wupper and changing Steinbeck into a through station. In 1849, Elberfeld station was opened and it became the most important passenger station in Elberfeld.

Between 1860 and 1870 a station building was built. At the same time an extensive area was developed for rail freight, including a marshalling yard, loading tracks and a locomotive depot with a turntable and a roundhouse because Elberfeld station had no room for such facilities.

Over the next few years Steinbeck station lost ground against the more centrally located Elberfeld station, which was only a kilometre away, and many of the inter-regional train services no longer stopped there. The construction of the Burgholz Railway in 1891 converted Steinbeck station into a junction station.

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