Gevelsberg West station

Gevelsberg West station
Operations
Category 6 [1]
Type Through station
Platforms in use 2
DS100 code KGVW
Station code 2114
Construction and location
Opened 15 May 1934 [2]
Location Gevelsberg
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Route information
List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Gevelsberg West station is a through station in the town of Gevelsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened with the Witten–Wengern Ost/Schwelm railway from Witten-Höhe to Schwelm that was opened by Deutsche Reichsbahn on 15 May 1934.[3] It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.[1]

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Hagen twice an hour (with intervals of 20 and 40 minutes alternatively).[4]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S8
toward Hagen Hbf

Notes

  1. ^ a b "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 1 November 2011. 
  2. ^ "Gevelsberg West station operations" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/kln/KGVW.htm. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  3. ^ "Line 2143: Witten - Schwelm" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://home.arcor.de/nrwbahnarchiv/strecken/2143.htm. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  4. ^ "Gevelsberg West station" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/bf/8002268.htm. Retrieved 1 November 2011.