Wuppertal-Unterbarmen station
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Wuppertal-Unterbarmen station
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| Through station | |
Entrance building
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| Location |
Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°15′32″N 7°10′16″E / 51.25883781°N 7.17110463°ECoordinates: 51°15′32″N 7°10′16″E / 51.25883781°N 7.17110463°E |
| Line(s) | |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 6936 |
| DS100 code | KWU |
| Category | 4 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1880 |
Wuppertal-Unterbarmen station is located in the German city of Wuppertal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.
No station was built at Unterbarmen, when the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company, was opened its Elberfeld–Dortmund trunk line. It was opened in 1880 under the name of Unterbarmen BM. It was opened in the western part of the then independent city of Barmen. Somewhat later Unter-Barmen Rh station (later Wuppertal-Loh station) was opened on the competing line of the Rhenish Railway Company.
The station was designed as a through station with two long-distance and two local tracks. A fifth track provided a shuttle connection to Barmen station, which was used for shunting, without blocking the long-distance and local tracks. Near the station were the company of Rittershaus & Blecher GmbH (now Christian-Morgenstern-Schule) and the Wicküler Brewery. Thus, a large amount of freight was handled at the station.
In 1897, the station was renamed Barmen-Unterbarmen by Prussian state railways. It was renamed Unterbarmen in 1930 and Wuppertal-Unterbarmen in 1950. Two signal boxes were closed in 1978.
The entrance building, which is built on an embankment, now serves only as a western access to the platforms of the S-Bahn line. An eastern access to the platforms is located on a pedestrian overpass over railway tracks. Two park-and-ride parking lots are located at the station, the biggest to the southwest of the platform. Barrier-free access to the platform for the disabled is only available from the smaller car park at the entrance building. The station is currently classified as a category 4 station.
Despite modernisation in 2003 the station building is in poor condition. A catering company that was based here closed in November 2004 due to the poor condition of the building and opened a new facility in Elberfeld in August 2005.
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