Wuppertal-Vohwinkel station

• Dusseldorf -Elberfeld
• Gruiten -Cologne- Deutz
• Wuppertal- Vohwinkel - Essen- Ruhr

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The Bahnhof Wuppertal - Vohwinkel is the westernmost station in the city area in the district of Wuppertal Vohwinkel. He is a key railway station and heard the train station category 3 at.

History

First reception building

The first station building was opened in 1841 taken from the Dusseldorf - Elberfeld Railway Company in operation. With the extension of the Prince William Railway Vohwinkel was 1848 railway junction. The station building, it was located approximately on the north side of the square today Lienhard, 1873 of a new reception building, which is now called the Old Train Station, detached.

Old Train Station

The old station was farther west than the present, and was opened in 1873. The building in the classical style was north of the terminus of 1901 went into operation in Wuppertal monorail.

The current station building ( New Station ) was put into operation in 1908, the old station was then still used as Güterumschagsplatz and demolished in 1973.

New railway station

The present building was built in the early 20th century by the Prussian state railways according to the plans of the Really Privy Council head of planning and lecturers in the Prussian Ministry of Public Works Alexander Rüdell.

In the early 20th century castle in the west, an approximately three-kilometer rail yard in which is today completely decommissioned and dismantled. To the east of the station there was until 1971 a railway depot, which was first combined with the depot Wuppertal- Steinbeck and later completely dissolved. Today, still remembers the old roundhouse at this time.

In the prime of his life there was in addition to the continuous Dusseldorf - Elberfeld railway line and the branch to the Prince William Railway also a link to the disused in the 1990s Wuppertal Northern Railway as well as connection to the corkscrew path.

While 1971 introduced new train type InterCity has never held as scheduled in Wuppertal- Vohwinkel, but it was at times the most important railway junction of Wuppertal.

Current situation

All long-distance trains pass through without stopping. Also, the rail passenger transport line Rhine -Münster -Express ( RE 7 ) does not hold in Vohwinkel. The Wupper -Express ( RE 4 ) and Maas- Wupper -Express ( RE 13 ), however, use Vohwinkel the beat traffic and secure a half hour in the high traffic in the main centers Hagen, Dusseldorf and Monchengladbach. Once the hour it goes to Hamm, Dortmund, Aachen and Venlo. In addition, the regional trains in the Rhine- Wupper -Bahn stop to Cologne twice an hour in Vohwinkel, once in the hour it comes to Bonn - Mehlem.

In the S -Bahn Rhein-Ruhr network but is Vohwinkel node. The S- Bahn line S 8 connects Wuppertal in twenty -minute intervals with Dusseldorf, Neuss and Mönchengladbach, twice per hour with Hagen and Schwelm, once the hour it comes to Witten and Dortmund., The S 9 to Essen, Bottrop and supporting changes at the lake in Wuppertal- Vohwinkel of the route Dusseldorf -Elberfeld on the Prince William Railway to Essen and vice versa. A new Überwerfungsbauwerk was built to starting operation, the S 9. The S 9 passes under the mainline when switching between routes by a single-track tunnel. The timetable change in December 2009 fell off the amplifier sections of the line S 11, since a restructuring of this line took place. Instead operates during rush hour, the newly created S -Bahn line S 68 of Vohwinkel via Dusseldorf to Langenfeld (Rheinland).

Except for the Maas- Wupper - Express all planned holding and moving passenger trains from DB Regio NRW or the long-distance trains are operated by DB long-distance transport. The Maas- Wupper - Express is operated by the euro rail. In February 2013 it was announced that the Rhein- Wupper -Bahn is operated from December 2015 the British rail operator National Express, the transport services on the Wupper Express are also 2013 also re-tendered.

Platforms

Today there are four platforms, three of the Dusseldorf - Elberfeld route with a total of six tracks ( 1-6) and another at the Prince William Railway with the tracks 11 and 12, where since December 2003, the S holds 9. The tracks 5, 6, 11 and 12 are the only tracks with disabled access. On the tracks 5 and 6, the S holds 8 tracks 11 and 12 on which S holds 9, equipped with barrier-free access both through the station building as well as from the Vohwinkeler north. The S 68, the Rhein- Wupper -Bahn and RE- lines, however, are not to reach for wheelchair users in Vohwinkel without help.

View

The total integrated transport planning in North Rhine- Westphalia provides that the line S 28, which is currently up to Mettmann - city forest runs until Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof is to be extended. For this purpose, a realignment north of the Lime Works is planned, which should lead to the Prince William Railway (see the article on the railway line Dusseldorf -Derendorf -Dortmund Süd). Construction is planned for 2014 and the commissioning for end of 2017.

On the part of the city of Wuppertal also a stop of the Rhine- Münster -Express in Vohwinkel is required. Whether this will be the case in 2016 after the award of the line is answered differently by the issuing company VRR and NVR. Together with the Rhine -Münster -Express and the Rhein- Wupper -Bahn is written out. This is half hour drive during rush hour, to Bonn, so often there is a connection to the former German capital from 2016.

In addition, the planning of the VRR to the Rhine -Ruhr Express ( RRX ) provides the current line to operate RE 4 2020 at the latest as RRX line with modern double -deck cars.

In addition to the train services are also plans to extend the trolleybus in Solingen from its previous terminus Vohwinkel monorail to Vohwinkel station. For this purpose, a renewal of the station forecourt is necessary to have for the recently approved funding. This dynamic passenger information systems at the station to be installed. In the context of the conversion among other vacant shop premises are to be demolished on the station forecourt. Work began in the fall of 2013.

Signal box

The interlocking of the station Wuppertal- Vohwinkel Vpf ( Wuppertal- Vohwinkel passenger station, Dispatcher ) of type Sp Dr S 59 was opened in 1964 as part of the electrification of the Wuppertal valley section.

Others

To the train station, a group of civil society Vohwinkel is involved. In addition to actions such as the planting of the station forecourt including the staging of concerts, exhibitions and film screenings in the station.