Gevelsberg West station

Gevelsberg West station
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationAm Westbahnhof 1
Gevelsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates51°19′00″N 7°18′45″E / 51.316717°N 7.312486°E / 51.316717; 7.312486
Line(s)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code2114[1]
DS100 codeKGVW[2]
IBNR8002268
Category6[1]
Fare zoneVRR: 679[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened15 May 1934[4]
Services
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station
Schwelm
towards Mönchengladbach Hbf
 S8 Gevelsberg-Kipp
towards Hagen Hbf
Schwelm
towards Haltern am See or Recklinghausen Hbf
 S9

Gevelsberg West station is a through station in the town of Gevelsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened with the Witten–Wengern Ost/Schwelm railway from Witten-Höhe to Schwelm that was opened by Deutsche Reichsbahn on 15 May 1934.[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]

  1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN 978-3-89494-146-8.
  3. ^ "VER-Tarifinformation". Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
  4. ^ Joost, André. "Gevelsberg West station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  5. ^ Joost, André. "Line 2143: Witten - Schwelm". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
  6. ^ Joost, André. "Gevelsberg West station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.