Witten Hauptbahnhof
- Elberfeld- Dortmund
- Essen-Iserlohn/Siegen
- Witten- Schwelm ( partially decommissioned)
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Witten Hauptbahnhof is located in the southeast of the city of Witten in the Ruhr. It was opened as " Witten BME " of the Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company on 9 March 1849.
The current station building dating from 1901, designed by the architect Richard Witten Sauerbruch is a listed building and is part of the Route of Industrial Heritage.
History
Witten Hauptbahnhof station is linking several railway routes. The original route of the BME had been opened only for freight already 20th December 1848 initially. On 26 October 1860, the BME began at this station building their Ruhr route.
The German Reichsbahn took then on 4 October 1926, the freight rail line on Witten- height to Wengern East with connections to the Ruhr Valley Railway in operation. In Witten- level chain of 15 May 1934 to November 30, 1979, the passenger trains to Gevelsberg from this line was finally closed down in early 1983. The people across Wengern east to Hagen- porch was added until they are about three years delay, but was then adjusted until June 1, 1986.
On December 1, 1939 met with Witten successive two trains. In this case, 15 people died and 17 others were injured.
On 14 January 2012, the new bus station was opened Witten southeast of the main train station. With his transfer from the grain market to the new location, the connection of the bus network should be improved to the railway network. Until then kept only a portion of the bus routes at Witten Hauptbahnhof.
See also: Railway Witten- Schwelm
Operation
The southern branch of the railroad Elberfeld- Dortmund is used by both the long-distance transport as well as transport, the northern branch since 1988, however, only on the S -Bahn line S 5
The regional traffic goes to stop at the station on the railway line Witten / Dortmund -Oberhausen / Duisburg to Essen main railway station, long distance moves since 1988 without a stop in Witten about the same distance as well as the purpose of its acceleration built tunnel upper road on the main route to Dortmund Hauptbahnhof.
The only still in operation track pieces on the southern Ruhr side ( Witten Hbf after ( ex- Abzw ) Witten- height, Witten - height to Wengern East, Wengern east to Hagen- porch ), are now out bound into a continuous freight line.
In Witten Hbf have the following lines:
Signal box
The interlocking Wif ( Witten Hbf, Dispatcher ) controls next to the Witten Hauptbahnhof also the level crossing Stockumer road at the breakpoint Witten- Annen Nord, multiple crossings between the Witten Central Station and the breakpoint Wetter (Ruhr ) and the threading of the Ruhrtalbahn in the left Ruhr track at the station Weather - Wengern East.