Hochdahl
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
Through station
General information
LocationZiegeleiweg 3, Erkrath, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates51°13′07″N 6°56′40″E / 51.218597°N 6.944333°E / 51.218597; 6.944333
Line(s)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code2798[1]
DS100 codeKHO
IBNR8002868
Category5[1]
Fare zone
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened10 April 1841[4]
Services
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station
Erkrath
towards Mönchengladbach Hbf
 S8 Hochdahl-Millrath
towards Hagen Hbf
Erkrath
towards Langenfeld
 S68 Hochdahl-Millrath
towards Wuppertal-Vohwinkel
Location
Hochdahl is located in North Rhine-Westphalia
Hochdahl
Hochdahl
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Hochdahl station is a through station in the district of Hochdahl of the town of Erkrath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]

History

The station was opened with the section of the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway from Erkrath to Wuppertal-Vohwinkel built by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company on 10 April 1841.[5] The line between Erkrath and Hochdahl has a gradient of 3.33% and rises 82 m in about 2.5 km. For more than one hundred years, this was the steepest main line in Europe. For many years trains had to be hauled by cable, originally driven by a stationary steam engine. A few months later, haulage by cable attached to a stationary steam engine was changed to haulage by cable attached via pulleys; to a locomotive running downhill on an additional track. With the duplication of the remainder of the line in 1865, the steep section of line became three-track, until the electrification of the line in 1963. The third track was rebuilt in 1985, as part of the additional third track built for the planned S-Bahn line. In 1926, cable haulage on the incline was replaced by bank engines.

Services

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen every 20 minutes and several S 68 services between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Langenfeld in the peak hour.[6]

It is also served by two bus routes operated by Rheinbahn every 20–60 minutes: O5 and 741.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  2. ↑ "Wabenplan für das Rheinbahn-Bedienungsgebiet" (PDF). Rheinbahn. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Hochdahl station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  5. ↑ "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
  6. ↑ "Hochdahl station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.