Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station
Through station
Location Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°13′46.5″N 6°47′51.8″E / 51.229583°N 6.797722°ECoordinates: 51°13′46.5″N 6°47′51.8″E / 51.229583°N 6.797722°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 1403
DS100 codeKDW
Category4 [1]
History
Opened 1967[2]
Traffic
Passengers 15,000–20,000[3]

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station is located about one kilometre north of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof in central Düsseldorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Cologne–Duisburg line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[1]

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn is also a stop for several tram and bus routes. The Wehrhahn line of the Düsseldorf Stadtbahn, which is under construction and is due to be completed in 2014, would replace tram lines with three underground lines to the west side of the station, coming to the surface 100 metres west of the station.[4]

Station layout

The station is centrally located between the districts of Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte, Düsseldorf-Flingern and Düsseldorf-Düsseltal. The station is located below a road bridge, over which buses and trams cross the station area and which is also the beginning of Grafenberger Allee.

Lines

Currently the station is served by three lines of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, S 1, S 6 and S 11.[5] Six tram lines and seven bus routes stop at Düsseldorf Wehrhahn stop above the station and at Birkenstraße and Elisabethkirche stops, which are located on the exit to Ackerstraße in Flingern-Nord district.

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
toward Solingen Hbf
S 1
toward Dortmund Hbf
toward Köln-Nippes
S 6
toward Essen Hbf
toward Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal
S 11

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. "Düsseldorf Wehrhahn operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  3. Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf: Nahverkehrsplan 2002–2007 (in German). Düsseldorf: Amt für Verkehrsmanagement. 2003. p. 59.
  4. "Bahnhof Wehrhahn S" (in German). City of Düsseldorf. Retrieved 29 September 2011.
  5. "Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 September 2011.

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