Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station
Operations
Category 4
Type Through station
Platforms in use 2
Daily entry/exit 15,000–20,000[1]
DS100 code KDW
Station code 1399
Construction and location
Opened 1967[2]
Location Düsseldorf
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Route information
List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station is located about one kilometre north of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof in central Düsseldorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Cologne–Duisburg line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[3]

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn is also a stop for several tram and bus routes. The Wehrhahn line of the Düsseldorf Stadtbahn, which is under construction and is due to be completed in 2014, would replace tram lines with three underground lines to the west side of the station, coming to the surface 100 metres west of the station.[4]

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Station layout

The station is centrally located between the districts of Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte, Düsseldorf-Flingern and Düsseldorf-Düsseltal. The station is located below a road bridge, over which buses and trams cross the station area and which is also the beginning of Grafenberger Allee.

Lines

Currently the station is served by three lines of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, S 1, S 6 and S 11.[5] Six tram lines and seven bus routes stop at Düsseldorf Wehrhahn stop above the station and at Birkenstraße and Elisabethkirche stops, which are located on the exit to Ackerstraße in Flingern-Nord district.

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S1
S6
toward Essen Hbf
S11

Notes

  1. ^ (in German) Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf: Nahverkehrsplan 2002–2007. Düsseldorf: Amt für Verkehrsmanagement. 2003. p. 59. 
  2. ^ "Düsseldorf Wehrhahn operations" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/kln/KDW.htm. Retrieved 29 September 2011. 
  3. ^ "Station catgories 2011" (in German) (PDF). Deutsche Bahn. http://www.deutschebahn.com/site/shared/de/dateianhaenge/infomaterial/sonstige/bahnhofskategorieliste__db__station__service__2011.pdf. Retrieved 29 September 2011. 
  4. ^ "Bahnhof Wehrhahn S" (in German). City of Düsseldorf. http://www.duesseldorf.de/wehrhahnlinie/bahnhoefe/01wehrhahn/index.shtml. Retrieved 29 September 2011. 
  5. ^ "Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/bf/8001582.htm. Retrieved 29 September 2011. 

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