Essen-Kray Nord station

• Essen- Gelsenkirchen
• Railway Osterath -Dortmund Süd ( partially decommissioned)

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The Bahnhof Essen -Kray Nord is now an S- Bahn stop in the district of Essen Kray.

History

After the route of the Rhenish Railway Company of Kray to Gelsenkirchen was released on February 13, 1872 for freight, followed here on 16 April 1872, the opening of the passenger traffic. 1876 ​​was Kray Kray Nord called from 1880, the second largest coal transshipment station of the Rhenish Railway. From the beginning, he was also used by the neighboring colliery Bonifacius. 1907, the tunnel was added to the island platform.

After Kray was incorporated in 1929 for the city of Essen, the station in Essen -Kray Nord was renamed on 14 May 1950.

In 1959, the passenger has been set on the route from north to Mulheim Kray -Hot. 1965 was followed by the setting on the Kray northern section to Bochum president. Since June 1991, the passenger traffic is operated on the route Essen- Gelsenkirchen by the S- Bahn line S2. For a second, northern island platform was built. With the setting of freight traffic on the route to Bochum- President and the closure of this route 2004 the station lost its status as the junction station. The rest of the route of the Rhenish Railway is to Essen-Nord station track yet, here are the top line has also been lowered in 2004.

The station building from 1875 has been registered in the list of monuments of the city of Essen in 1991. It shows in his representative design that you can put a special value in the then emerging coal region.

Current situation

The station is serviced S2 ( Route number 450.2 ) in rail transport from the S -Bahn line. It lies on the railway line Essen- Gelsenkirchen.

In operation Jobs Directory of Deutsche Bahn train station has the abbreviation EEKN and is carried in the train station category 6 as a breakpoint.

Today ( 2013) has in the listed station building the Yavuz Sultan Selim Mosque is relocating

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