Solingen Mitte station

Solingen Mitte station
Through station
Location Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°09′58″N 7°05′22″E / 51.16611°N 7.08935°ECoordinates: 51°09′58″N 7°05′22″E / 51.16611°N 7.08935°E
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 5414
DS100 codeKSM
Category5 [1]
History
Opened 10 December 2006[2]

Solingen Mitte station is in the city of Solingen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway. The line through the site of Solingen Mitte station was opened on 2 December 1890 as part of the Solingen–Wuppertal-Vohwinkel line, known as the Korkenzieherbahn ("Corkscrew Railway"), to Vohwinkel.[3] The station was opened on 10 December 2006.[2] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

The station is served by line S 7 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, branded as Der Müngstener, operated every 20 minutes from Monday to Friday and generally every half hour on weekends and at off-peak times, using (LINT 41) vehicles.[4][5] Until 15 December 1913 the station was served by Regional-Express service RB 47, operated by DB Regio NRW, normally with two-carriage sets of class 628.4.[5] The Abellio Deutschland company won a contract that was put to tender in November 2010 and took over the operation of passenger services on the route from December 2013 for a period of 15 years.[6][7]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 7
toward Solingen 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 "Solingen Mitte operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  3. "Line 2734: Solingen - Wuppertal-Vohwinkel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 28 October 2011.
  4. "Solingen Mitte station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "RB47: Der Müngstener". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
  6. "Abellio gewinnt Ausschreibung der RB 47". Eisenbahnjournal Zughalt.de (in German). 23 November 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
  7. "Bahn unterliegt Abellio bei RB 47-Ausschreibung". Rheinische Post (in German). 24 November 2010. Retrieved 8 December 2013.