Wuppertal-Langerfeld station

Wuppertal-Langerfeld station
Operations
Category 6 [1]
Type Through station
Platforms in use 2
DS100 code KWLP
Station code 6923
Construction and location
Opened 1948 [2]
Location Wuppertal
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Route information
List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Wuppertal-Langerfeld station is a through station in the district of Langerfeld of the city of Wuppertal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened in 1948 on a the section of the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway from Döppersberg, near the current Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, to Schwelm that was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 9 October 1847.[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 aan hour (with intervals of 20 and 40 minutes alternatively).[4]

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

It is also served by bus route 606 operated by Wuppertaler Stadtwerke every 60 minutes.[4]

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 31 October 2011. 
  2. ^ "Wuppertal-Langerfeld station operations" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/kln/KWLP.htm. Retrieved 31 October 2011. 
  3. ^ "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://home.arcor.de/nrwbahnarchiv/strecken/2550.htm. Retrieved 31 October 2011. 
  4. ^ a b "Wuppertal-Langerfeld station" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/bf/8006607.htm. Retrieved 31 October 2011.