Wuppertal-Unterbarmen
Through station
Entrance building
General information
Location	Elberfelderstr. 74 Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°15′32″N 7°10′16″E / 51.25883781°N 7.17110463°E / 51.25883781; 7.17110463
Owned by	DB Netz
Operated by	DB Station&Service
Line(s)	Elberfeld–Dortmund (KBS 458, KBS 450.8)
Platforms	1 island platform
Tracks	5
Train operators	Abellio Rail NRW DB Regio NRW
Connections	S7 S8 S9
Other information
Station code	6936[1]
DS100 code	KWU[2]
IBNR	8006620
Category	4[1]
Fare zone	VRR: 650 and 660[3] VRS: 1650 and 1660 (VRR transitional tariff)[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1880 [5]
Services
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station Wuppertal Hbf Terminus S7 Wuppertal-Barmen towards Solingen Hbf Wuppertal Hbf towards Mönchengladbach Hbf S8 Wuppertal-Barmen towards Hagen Hbf Wuppertal Hbf towards Haltern am See or Recklinghausen Hbf S9
Location
Wuppertal-Unterbarmen Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Wuppertal-Unterbarmen station is located in the German city of Wuppertal in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.^[1]

History

No station was built at Unterbarmen, when the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company, was opened its Elberfeld–Dortmund trunk line. It was opened in 1880 under the name of Unterbarmen BM.^[5] It was opened in the western part of the then independent city of Barmen. Somewhat later Unter-Barmen Rh station (later Wuppertal-Loh station) was opened on the competing line of the Rhenish Railway Company.

The station was designed as a through station with two long-distance and two local tracks. A fifth track provided a shuttle connection to Barmen station, which was used for shunting, without blocking the long-distance and local tracks. Near the station were the company of Rittershaus & Blecher GmbH (now Christian-Morgenstern-Schule) and the Wicküler Brewery. Thus, a large amount of freight was handled at the station.

In 1897, the station was renamed Barmen-Unterbarmen by Prussian state railways. It was renamed Unterbarmen in 1930 and Wuppertal-Unterbarmen in 1950. Two signal boxes were closed in 1978.^[5]

Station

S-Bahn station

The entrance building, which is built on an embankment, now serves only as a western access to the platforms of the S-Bahn line. An eastern access to the platforms is located on a pedestrian overpass over railway tracks. Two park-and-ride parking lots are located at the station, the biggest to the southwest of the platform. Barrier-free access to the platform for the disabled is only available from the smaller car park at the entrance building. The station is currently classified as a category 4 station.^[1]

Access for long distance trains to the platforms and the platforms themselves have been dismantled, but the mainline tracks are still in the same position, so that the area between the tracks at the station is much greater than usual.

Rail services

The station is served by S 8 services between Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof and Hagen Hauptbahnhof (two out of three each hour terminating at Wuppertal-Oberbarmen). It is also served by line S 9 running from Recklinghausen to Hagen Hauptbahnhof. It is also served by line S 7 service Der Müngstener to Solingen Hbf.^[6]

It is also served by bus route CE61, operated by WSW mobil at 20-minute intervals during the day.^[6]

References

External links

• "Wuppertal stations" (in German). Bahnen-Wuppertal.de. Retrieved 12 October 2011.