Büttgen station

Büttgen
Hp
Location Kaarst, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°11′49″N 6°36′18″E / 51.197°N 6.605°ECoordinates: 51°11′49″N 6°36′18″E / 51.197°N 6.605°E
Line(s) Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway (KBS 450.8 S 8)
Other information
Station code 1011
DS100 codeKBUT
Category5 [1]
History
Opened 8 January 1868 [2]

Büttgen is a railway station in the Büttgen neighbourhood of the city Kaarst in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 8 January 1868[2] on the Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway opened between Mönchengladbach and Neuss by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company on 16 December 1852.[3] It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen every 20 minutes.[4]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 8
toward Hagen Hbf

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Büttgen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
  3. "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
  4. "Büttgen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 November 2011.