Hagen-Vorhalle station

The station Hagen- porch is a large marshalling yard in the district of Hagen porch of national importance and a small passenger station for the transport. He was put into its present form 1910 and it is one of the nine major marshalling yards in Germany, (now DB Schenker Rail ) form the backbone of the production program was added in 2006 200X of that Railion Germany AG. The station is located on the Ruhr Valley Railway and the railway line Elberfeld- Dortmund. The station was opened on 9 March 1849 as Herdecke station. Later names were in the 1880s Herdecke South, then Herdecke porch and porch since 1912, until the station got its present name in the 1950s.

Marshalling yard

The rail yard has eleven Einfahrgleise, two mountain tracks and 40 classification tracks of up to 920 m working length. The running rail freight cars or wagons groups are slowed down behind the hump hump retarders by four. The target braking system is fully automated by a cascade of hump retarders and retarders. Following the last cars are pushed together by railroad car conveying systems for coupling. In the Valley then the cars are coupled and connected its braking hoses, the subsequent brake test via a radio-controlled brake test system.

The entire Marshalling is centrally automatically controlled by the electronic interlocking wf. An intervention by the signalers (points guards ) is in the process operating only in the event of a fault may be necessary.

The RBF Hagen- porch was modernized between 2004 and 2006 by DB Power ( subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn ). In 2004, 23 of the 40 classification tracks were renewed. In the years 2005 and 2006 retarders were in all 40 classification tracks additionally installed to the existing hump retarders. In addition, all directional tracks were equipped with conveyors, the press the last car over the entire length of track to the next car.

The commissioning of the fully automated process plant was carried out in January 2007. Starting in 2008, a remote-controlled from the interlocking switch engine should in Hagen- porch are used. By modernizing the Zugbildungszeiten and also the staff in the RBF Hagen- porch were significantly reduced.

Passenger station

The passenger station Hagen- porch originally consisted of two central platforms, one of which is now left with two tracks. He is a through station and heard the train station Category 5.

Currently, the following lines stop vestibule Hagen (April 2008):