Dortmund Signal-Iduna-Park station

• Dortmund- Iserlohn ( " Ardey train" )
• Dortmund- Herdecke Hagen ( the " Volmetal train" )
• Dortmund- Soest ( " Hellweg train" )

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The station Dortmund Signal Iduna Park - until December 9, 2006 Dortmund- Westfalenhalle - is a train station in Dortmund near the Signal Iduna Park (Westfalen Stadium ) and the Westfalenhalle. In order to cope with the arrival and departure traffic at football matches better, the station has two platforms, with over 400 meters in length. It is led by Deutsche Bahn station under the number 1297 and belongs to the train station category 4 Him use daily 1,300 passengers.

History

The station was opened in 1952 to coincide with the reopening of the destroyed in the Second World War Westfalenhalle. Five years later the railway Dusseldorf - Dortmund Süd Their village was east of the station Westfalenhalle threaded with a newly built compound curve in the Soest track and out so the main train station instead of the previously approached South Station. First, the station became operational only considered as a stop ( breakpoint with adjoining branch point ), since 2006, there is a train station. As the Westfalen Stadium in Signal Iduna Park was renamed in 2005, the sponsor acquired the naming rights to the station, which also carries this name since 10 December 2006. During the World Cup in 2006, the station was completely rebuilt, expanded and renovated. Original plans to cover over the station with a steel and glass structure were discarded for reasons of cost.

Operation

The station is now used exclusively to regional traffic here keep the lines RB 52 (Dortmund - Lüdenscheid, Volmetal train), RB 53 (Dortmund - Iserlohn, Ardey -Bahn ) and RB 59 (Dortmund - Soest, Hellweg train). In addition to the regular services run regularly here special trains to the home games of the Bundesliga football club Borussia Dortmund.

Besides the two namesakes of the station, the Westfalenhalle and Signal Iduna Park are also near the Red Earth Stadium, the Westfalen Park and the nature reserve Bolmke.