Essen-Steele station
- Railway Witten / Dortmund -Oberhausen / Duisburg
- Railway Wuppertal- Vohwinkel - Essen- Ruhr
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The Bahnhof Essen - Steele is a suburban railway junction in the district of Essen Steele. It forms with the Steeler traffic place an important transport hub for public transport of the city of Essen.
History
On March 1, 1862, section of the railway line Witten / Dortmund -Oberhausen / Duisburg between Essen and Bochum Steele and Wattenscheid by the Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company was opened. The city Steele received a train station, the Essen- Steele called East today.
The railway line Wuppertal- Vohwinkel - Essen- Ruhr has been joined on June 1, 1863 during the inauguration of the Ruhrbrücke Steele Steele. This route was operated up to the Ruhr before Steele since 1854 by the Bergisch- Märkischen Railway Company, then taken over by the Prince William Railway Society.
For the 1901 went into operation in pure passenger station Steele West, the station building was completed in 1912. The station was in Essen- Steele West ( at that time the symbol: CBI ) on May 14th, 1950 renamed, since May 27, 1979, he is named Essen- Steele. for the previous Bahnhof Essen - Steele in Essen- Steele Ost has been renamed.
When alterations in connection with the establishment of traffic square is the old station building was demolished in the early 1970s.
With the opening of the elevated connecting curve between Steele and West Überruhr on 1 February 1978, the Zuglaufzeit between Wuppertal shortened significantly after eating, because previously had all trains on this route in the station make Steele Ost head. At first the transport line N9 operated the flight towards Wuppertal, runs on the electrification since December 2003, the S -Bahn line S9. Since 1974, use the two S -Bahn lines S1 and S3 to Bahnhof Essen - Steele West.
Current situation
The station is currently operating in the rail transport exclusively by the S- Bahn Rhein -Ruhr. It lies on the railway line Witten / Dortmund -Oberhausen / Duisburg ( course book stretches 450.1, 450.3 ), and in consequence on the railway line Wuppertal- Vohwinkel - Essen- Ruhr ( Route number 450.9 ).
In operation Jobs Directory of Deutsche Bahn, the breakpoint has EEST the abbreviation. The station is run by the Station Category 4 as a light rail system maintenance.
Since the south of the station location Steele Steeler traffic court in 1978 the traffic was passed, it forms together with the Essen- Steele Station is the main train station one of the main transport hubs in Essen. It is since the concept to bring people with buses and trams to Central Station Steele, so that they can quickly get further into the center of Essen and in the neighboring towns with the S-Bahn. From the beginning of 2009 all the traffic space was renovated, optimized paths between the transport and general accessibility, even to the S -Bahn platforms, produced, so that the plant went back into operation after temporary closure on 28 August 2010. Two thirds of the conversion costs of approximately nine million euros, the Land of North Rhine -Westphalia, the remaining amount divided the city of Essen and the transport company.