Dortmund-Brackel is a railway station in the

Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ...

district of Brackel in the German state of

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 ...

. It is classified by

Deutsche Bahn The (; abbreviated as DB or DB AG) is the national railway company of Germany. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). The Federal Republic of Germany is its single shareholder. describes itself as the se ...

as a category 5 station. It was opened on 15 May 1976 on the

Welver–Sterkrade railway The Welver–Sterkrade railway is a former through railway line from the Westphalian town of Welver to Sterkrade in the western Ruhr region in Germany, which is now broken into four disconnected sections. Because its route ran along the Emscher r ...

completed between

Welver Welver is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History The town was once known as Villinghausen or Vellinghausen. The Seven Years' War Battle of Villinghausen was fought nearby. Geography Welver is situat ...

and the old Dortmund Süd (south) station by 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 ...

on the same date and electrified on 25 May 1984. A station building was built in 1895, but it was demolished in 1985. It is served by

Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (german: S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr) is a polycentric and electrically driven S-train network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr (and ci ...

line S 4 at 30-minute intervals (15-minute intervals in the peak between Dortmund-Lütgendortmund and ). The station is also served by two bus routes, 420 (

Scharnhorst Gerhard Johann David von Scharnhorst (12 November 1755 – 28 June 1813) was a Hanoverian-born general in Prussian service from 1801. As the first Chief of the Prussian General Staff, he was noted for his military theories, his reforms of the Pru ...

– Derne + Aplerbeck, every 20 minutes) and 422 (Aplerbeck – Schüren + Wambel – Körne, every 30 minutes) operated by the municipal bus company, ''Dortmunder Stadtwerke'' (''DSW21'').

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S4 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Dortmund Railway stations in Germany opened in 1976 {{NorthRhineWestphalia-railstation-stub