Essen Hauptbahnhof

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Essen Hbf

Architectural information
Opened	1862
Location	Essen
State	NRW
Country	Germany
Local authority	Stadtkern
Am Hauptbahnhof 1 45127 Essen
Operations
DS100 code	EE
Station code	1690
Type	Bf
Category	1
Platforms in use	14
Annual entry/exit	65.7 million
Deutsche Bahn - Stations in Germany
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Essen Hauptbahnhof (usually translated from German as Essen Central Station, short form: Essen Hbf) is the Hauptbahnhof for the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway. It was opened in 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. However, the station was not the first on Essen soil, as the station Essen (today Essen-Altenessen on the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn was opened in 1847.

The station suffered extensive damage in World War II and was almost completely rebuilt in the 1950s and 1960s. Over the course of the following years, the Essen Stadtbahn and the A 40 were other construction projects that influenced the station. Today it is an important hub between local, regional and long-distance services, with all major InterCityExpress and InterCity trains calling at the station as well as RegionalExpress and Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services.

It has, however, fallen into disrepair, and at some point it was proposed to move the station to the area of the current S-Bahn station Essen West. These plans are considered abandoned however, and the station will likely undergo a renovation process similar to Gelsenkirchen Hbf or Bochum Hbf.

Trains of all kind call at the station, from long distance to local services. It used to be one of the Metropolitan stops on the Hamburg to Cologne line before the service was discontinued in 2002. Night services are offered by EuroNight trains to cities such as Moscow or Brussels, and DB NachtZug trains to Zurich and Vienna, among others.

401 trains pass the station each day which makes Essen Hauptbahnhof the third most busiest train station in the Ruhr Area after Dortmund Hauptbahnhof and Duisburg Hauptbahnhof.

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Essen Hauptbahnhof is at coordinates 51°27′06″N 7°00′48″E / 51.451652, 7.013443 (Essen Hauptbahnhof)Coordinates: 51°27′06″N 7°00′48″E / 51.451652, 7.013443 (Essen Hauptbahnhof)

Preceding station	DB AG	Following station
Terminus	RB 40	Essen-Kray Süd toward Hagen Hbf
Terminus	RB 42	Gelsenkirchen toward Münster
Mülheim (Ruhr) toward Aachen Hbf	RE 1	Wattenscheid toward Hamm
Mülheim (Ruhr) toward Mönchengladbach Hbf	RE 2	Gelsenkirchen toward Münster
Mülheim (Ruhr) toward Düsseldorf Hbf	RE 6	Wattenscheid toward Minden
Mülheim (Ruhr) toward Düsseldorf Hbf	RE 11	Wattenscheid toward Paderborn
Essen-Borbeck Süd toward Borken	RE 14	Essen-Steele toward Essen-Steele Ost
Terminus	RE 16	Wattenscheid toward Siegen
Preceding station	Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn	Following station
Essen-West toward Düsseldorf Hbf	S1	Essen-Steele toward Dortmund Hbf
Terminus	S2	Essen-Kray Nord toward Dortmund Hbf
Essen Süd toward Köln-Nippes	S6	Terminus
Essen-West toward Haltern am See	S9	Essen-Steele toward Wuppertal