Dortmund Knappschaftskrankenhaus station

Dortmund Knappschaftskrankenhaus
Through station
Location Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°31′07″N 7°32′15″E / 51.5187°N 7.5374°ECoordinates: 51°31′07″N 7°32′15″E / 51.5187°N 7.5374°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 1290 [1]
DS100 codeEDKK [2]
Category6 [1]
History
Opened 26 May 1963 [3]

Dortmund Knappschaftskrankenhaus is a railway station in the Dortmund district of Brackel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia near the Knappschaftskrankenhaus (literally "miners' hospital"). It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.[1] It was opened on 26 May 1963[3] on the Welver–Sterkrade railway completed between Welver and the old Dortmund Süd (south) station by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company on 15 May 1876 and electrified on 25 May 1984.[4]

It is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 4 at 20 minute intervals.[5][6]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 4
toward Unna

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Dortmund Knappschaftskrankenhaus station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Line 2112: Welver - Dortmund Süd". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  5. ↑ "Dortmund Knappschaftskrankenhaus station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "VRR rapid-transit plan 2013" (PDF) (in German). VRR. Retrieved 15 December 2013.