Wuppertal-Ronsdorf station
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The station Wuppertal Wuppertal Ronsdorf is a station on the railway line Wuppertal- Barmen- Solingen, today's Route number 458 The today in the regular passenger services operated only as a breakpoint station had the peculiarity that clashed here three different gauges.
Location
The station is located at the end of the Nibelungs street in district of Wuppertal Ronsdorf about 1.2 kilometers east of the center at an altitude of 295 meters above sea level. Since the 1970s, includes the east of the station area to the residential area in Rehsiepen, which is connected by a pedestrian bridge over the railway complex with Ronsdorf.
History
The railway line Wuppertal- Barmen- Remscheid
During the construction of the railway line Rittershausen - Remscheid first a route of about Erbschloe was being considered, which would have the center of Ronsdorf better use. Due to the topographic situation but eventually the current route via the hamlet Blombach to the site and continue along the path towards Tannenbaumer Lüttringhausen -Lennep - Remscheid was chosen.
The station was inaugurated to coincide with the first only to Remscheid running railway line on September 1, 1868.
The Ronsdorf - Müngstener Railway
For better integration of Ronsdorf and to develop the numerous metal processing plants in the Morsbachtal Ronsdorf - Müngstener Railway (RME ) was built in meter gauge from 1890. On 28 May 1891, the inauguration of the section from "City Station " took place on Ronsdorf station, the unofficial addition of " state railway station " got to better differentiate (later " Ronsdorf DB" ). Already on August 21, 1891 was the extension of the RME to Clarenbachstift and on 16 November the same year to Müngsten. In 1903 the railway line was electrified. The decommissioning was performed in installments until 1959.
The Ronsdorf station was renamed in 1949 in Wuppertal- Ronsdorf station.
Three gauges
In addition to the standard- state line and meter gauge RME was built on the site of the brick immediately adjacent a light railway network with a narrow gauge. The Brickyard and the light railway have long history. Today, there are workshops of the cable manufacturer Draka. The escarpment, where the raw material was mined for the manufacture of a brick is still visible.
The temporary active transfer freight to the RME was performed by transferring tracks on Rollböcke the narrow gauge railway. People who switched to the traveling on the tracks of the RME tram, had to accept a short walk over the station forecourt.
Buildings and Structures
The station building was a anderthalbgeschossiger brick building with flat roof. South thereto, the Güterhallen and other farm buildings joined. The former signal box at North Head has since been demolished.
Current situation
Today's unadorned reception building has no function, but only houses a kiosk. After rebuilding the railway station 2006-2007, access to the raised to 76 cm central platform is accessible and by means of a ramp and a lift as well as alternatively via stairs. Both the old platform roof with cast-iron columns, as well as the former access through the reception building and the underpass here are gone.
The freight building is used as a warehouse, as well as the built in half-timbered style and left today Güterhalle the RME. The loading dock is just like the former main platform for several years Has no effect. East of the two traveled in passenger tracks are two more, only sporadically used through tracks that occasionally designated for the parking of wagons. The control of the switch and the light signals is carried out from the interlocking Remscheid. The remaining sidings such as to the factory premises of the firm Draka are used only occasionally or as to the transformer station of RWE leading since been dismantled. On the former transfer station of the RME ( in southern station area ) is now home to a scrap metal recycler.
In passenger transport, the station was Monday-Friday, served until 14 December 2013, of the Regional Train The Müngstener (RB 47) in 20 -minute intervals on weekends every half hour. As of 15 December 2013, the line was incorporated into the S- Bahn network and renumbered S 7 The timing was unchanged.
From the station, the city bus number 620 direction Ronsdorf-Markt/Elberfeld or Klausen / Lüttringhausen. The few P R sites are fallen away at the train station reconstruction.