Through station | |||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||
Location | Burbecker Str. 8 Gevelsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°20′12″N 7°22′41″E / 51.33661°N 7.377985°E | ||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||||
Station code | 2116[1] | ||||||||||||||
DS100 code | EGVA[2] | ||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8001943 | ||||||||||||||
Category | 6[1] | ||||||||||||||
Fare zone | VRR: 679[3] | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | 1 June 1980[4] | ||||||||||||||
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Gevelsberg-Knapp 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]