Through station | |||||||||||||||
General information | |||||||||||||||
Location | Jessinghauserstr. 61 Schwelm, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°17′08″N 7°16′10″E / 51.285526°N 7.269478°E | ||||||||||||||
Owned by | DB Netz | ||||||||||||||
Operated by | DB Station&Service | ||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||
Train operators | DB Regio NRW | ||||||||||||||
Connections | S8 S9 | ||||||||||||||
Other information | |||||||||||||||
Station code | 5750[1] | ||||||||||||||
DS100 code | KSWW[2] | ||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8005488 | ||||||||||||||
Category | 6[1] | ||||||||||||||
Fare zone | |||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||
Opened | 29 May 1988[5] | ||||||||||||||
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Schwelm West station is a through station in the town of Schwelm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 29 May 1988 on a section of the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway from Döppersberg, near the current Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, to Schwelm that was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 9 October 1847.[6] 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.[7]