Leichlingen station

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Leichlingen station
Operations
Category 5 [1]
Type Through station
Platforms in use 2 [2]
DS100 code KLEL
Station code 3621
Construction and location
Opened 25 August 1867[3]
Location Leichlingen
State North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Home page www.bahnhof.de
51°06′28″N 7°00′19″E / 51.107868°N 7.005374°E / 51.107868; 7.005374Coordinates: 51°06′28″N 7°00′19″E / 51.107868°N 7.005374°E / 51.107868; 7.005374
Route information
List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Leichlingen station is a through station in the town of Leichlingen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened on 25 August 1867 on the Gruiten–Köln-Deutz railway, which was completed between Gruiten and Opladen by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 25 September 1867.[4] It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

The station is served by the Rhein-Wupper-Bahn (RB 48) between Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof and Cologne twice an hour during the day, with one train an hour to/from Bonn-Mehlem.[5]

Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
toward Bonn-Mehlem
 RB 48
Rhein-Wupper-Bahn

It is also served by two bus routes operated by Hüttebräucker: 253 (once a day) and 254 (at 60 minute intervals). It is served by bus route 255, operated by Wiedenhoff at 20-40 minute intervals and by bus route 694, operated by Stadtwerke Solingen at 30-60 minute intervals.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Stationspreisliste 2014" [Station price list 2014] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 October 2013. Retrieved 1 January 2014. 
  2. ↑ "Leichlingen station track plan" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  3. ↑ "Leichlingen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  4. ↑ "Line 2730: Gruiten - Neurather Ring". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
  5. ↑ "Leichlingen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011. 
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