Schwelm West station

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]

Schwelm West
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 / 51.285526; 7.269478
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Elberfeld–Dortmund (KBS 450.8)
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	VRR: 678^[3] VRS: 1670 (VRR transitional tariff)^[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	29 May 1988^[5]
Services
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station Wuppertal-Langerfeld towards Mönchengladbach Hbf S8 Schwelm towards Hagen Hbf Wuppertal-Langerfeld towards Haltern am See or Recklinghausen Hbf S9
Location
Schwelm West Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

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]

References

1. "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) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "VER-Tarifinformation". Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr. 20 July 2017. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
4. "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
5. Joost, André. "Schwelm West station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
6. Joost, André. "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.
7. Joost, André. "Schwelm West station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 10 May 2020.