Dortmund West station

Dortmund West
Through station
Location Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°30′35″N 7°26′19″E / 51.5097°N 7.4385°ECoordinates: 51°30′35″N 7°26′19″E / 51.5097°N 7.4385°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 1296 [1]
DS100 codeEDW [2]
Category6 [1]
History
Opened 3 June 1984 [3]

Dortmund West station is a railway station in the Dortmund district of Marten in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.[1] It was opened on 3 June 1984[3] on the Osterath–Dortmund Süd railway completed between the old Dortmund-Dorstfeld station and the old Dortmund Süd (south) station by the Rhenish Railway Company on 19 November 1874 and electrified on 25 May 1984.[4] It is proposed to build platforms on the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway to provide interchange with S-Bahn line S 5.

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

It is also served by bus routes 452 (Saarlandstr – Funkenburg – Spähenfelde + Dortmund Hbf (475 – Mengede)), every 30 minutes) and 453 (Saarlandstr – Märkische Str – Schüren + Dortmund Hbf – Anne-Frank-GS), every 30 minutes), both operated by DSW21.[5]

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 West station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  4. ↑ "Line 2126: Dortmund-Dorstfeld - Dortmund Süd". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Dortmund West station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
  6. ↑ "VRR rapid-transit plan 2013" (PDF) (in German). VRR. Retrieved 14 December 2013.