Gevelsberg-Kipp station

Gevelsberg-Kipp station
Operations
Category 6 [1]
Type Through station
Platforms in use 2
DS100 code KGVK
Station code 2115
Construction and location
Opened 1 June 1980 [2]
Location Gevelsberg
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Route information
List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Gevelsberg-Kipp station is a through station in the town of Gevelsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 1 June 1980 on a section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, opened by the Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) between Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen and Hagen RhE station (now Hagen-Eckesey depot) on 15 September 1879.[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-Kipp station operations" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/kln/KGVK.htm. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  3. ^ "Line 2423: Düsseldorf-Gerresheim - Dortmund-Westfalenhalle" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://home.arcor.de/nrwbahnarchiv/strecken/2423.htm. Retrieved 1 November 2011. 
  4. ^ "Gevelsberg-Kipp station" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/bf/8002509.htm. Retrieved 1 November 2011.