Bottrop Hauptbahnof is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

Bottrop Bottrop () is a city in west-central Germany, on the Rhine–Herne Canal, in North Rhine-Westphalia. Located in the Ruhr industrial area, Bottrop adjoins Essen, Oberhausen, Gladbeck, and Dorsten. The city had been a coal-mining and rail cente ...

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...

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. It is located on the

Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd – Hamm railway Oberhausen (, ) is a city on the river Emscher in the Ruhr Area, Germany, located between Duisburg and Essen ( ). The city hosts the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and its Gasometer Oberhausen is an anchor point of the European Rout ...

and Essen–Bottrop railway and is served by RE and

S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...

services operated by DB and

NordWestBahn The NordWestBahn GmbH is a private railway company providing regional train services on several routes in northern and western Germany. It is a joint venture of Stadtwerke Osnabrück AG, Verkehr und Wasser GmbH in Oldenburg and Transdev Germ ...

History

On 12 November 1879, the

Royal Westphalian Railway Company The Royal Westphalian Railway (german: Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) was a German rail company established in 1848 with funding from the Prussian government, which later became part of the Prussian State Railways. The network eventuall ...

opened the Horst–Osterfeld section of its Welver-Sterkrade line, but failed to build a station in Bottrop city. Just one year later the company was nationalised and the line was partly dismantled. On 1 May 1905 the Prussian state railways opened the

Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway The Oberhausen-Osterfeld Süd–Hamm railway, also called the Hamm-Osterfeld line (german: Hamm-Osterfelder Bahn), is a 76-kilometre long double-track electrified main line railway at the northern edge of the Ruhr in the German state of North Rhin ...

, which runs parallel to the Westphalian route from Osterfeld Süd to the east for about four kilometres to the current Bottrop Hauptbahnhof and then swings to the north. On this line a station was opened nearly half a kilometre east of the present station then called ''West Bottrop'' station. This station was designed with station building on an island between two tracks to the east of Bahnhofsstraße. At about the same time, the ''Bottrop CME'' station of the former

Cologne-Minden Railway Company The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: ''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', ''CME'') was along with the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rhenish Railway Company one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th ...

on the Duisburg-Ruhrort–Dortmund railway was renamed ''Bottrop Süd'' and the ''Bottrop RhE'' station of the former

Rhenish Railway Company The Rhenish Railway Company (German language, German: ''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', RhE) was along with the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (CME) and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME) one of the railway companies that in the m ...

on the

Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway The Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway is a former inter-regional German railway, built by the Rhenish Railway Company (RhE) from Duisburg Central Station, Duisburg in the western Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia to Quakenbrück in Lower Saxony ...

was renamed ''Bottrop Nord''. The Bottrop West station quickly surpassed the two older stations in importance and it was renamed ''Bottrop'' station in 1914. Finally between 1927 and 1936 it was renamed ''Bottrop Hauptbahnhof'', following the opening on 1 July 1922 of a new connecting line to the Mülheim-Heißen–Oberhausen-Osterfeld Nord railway. After the Second World War, the "Westphalian line" from Bottrop was not restored to operation and was partly dismantled. Bottrop Nord station was closed on 29 May 1960 and Bottrop Süd station followed 14 years later on 26 May 1974. The old station building too large for its traffic and poorly located and it was demolished in 1995 and a new normal through station was built nearly half a kilometre to the west between Bahnhofstrasse and Essener Straße.

Train services

Special 15 min tact RE14 / S9 : Gladbeck West - Bottrop Hbf - Essen-Borbeck -

Essen Hbf Essen Hauptbahnhof (German for "Essen main station") is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway. It was opened in 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenba ...

The following services currently call at Bottrop Hauptbahnhof:

References

External links

*{{cite web, url= http://www.sporenplan.nl/figuren/tekeningen/db_schaal/bottrop-75.jpg , title= Diagram of the island station before 1995 , accessdate=10 October 2011 Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Hauptbahnhof Central stations or central railway stations emerged in the second half of the nineteenth century as railway stations that had initially been built on the edge of city centres were enveloped by urban expansion and became an integral part of the ...

S9 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Germany opened in 1905