Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße station

Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße station
Through station
Location Unterbilk, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°12′36″N 6°45′42″E / 51.209896°N 6.761669°E / 51.209896; 6.761669Coordinates: 51°12′36″N 6°45′42″E / 51.209896°N 6.761669°E / 51.209896; 6.761669
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 1421
DS100 codeKDVS
Category5 [1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 29 May 1988 [2]

Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße station is a through station in the district of Unterbilk in the city of Düsseldorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 29 May 1988[2] on the new line opened by the Prussian state railways on 1 October 1891 between the Hamm Railway Bridge and Gerresheim as part of the construction of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof.[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, S 11 between Düsseldorf Airport and Bergisch Gladbach and S 28 between Mettmann Stadtwald and Kaarster See, each every 20 minutes.[4]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 8
toward Hagen Hbf
S 11
toward Kaarster See
S 28

It is also served by two tram lines, operated by Rheinbahn at 10-minute intervals: 704 and 709. It is served by bus route 726 operated by Rheinbahn at 30 minute intervals.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße 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 1 November 2011.
  4. 1 2 "Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
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