Through station | |||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||
Location | Heidestr. 21 Gevelsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°19′10″N 7°19′38″E / 51.319491°N 7.327303°E | ||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||
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Station code | 2115[1] | ||||||||||||||
DS100 code | KGVK[2] | ||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8002509 | ||||||||||||||
Category | 6[1] | ||||||||||||||
Fare zone | VRR: 679[3] | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | 1 June 1980 [4] | ||||||||||||||
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Gevelsberg-Kipp station is a through station in the town of Gevelsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 1 June 1980 on a section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, opened by the Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) between Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen and Hagen RhE station (now Hagen-Eckesey depot) on 15 September 1879.[5] It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.[1]
The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Hagen and line S 9 between Recklinghausen and Hagen, both every 60 minutes.[6]