Dortmund-Kruckel station lies on the border between the suburbs of Dortmund-Kruckel and Dortmund-Persebeck of the city of
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 ...
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 ...
on the
Elberfeld–Dortmund line. The station is currently classified as a category 6 station.
It is served by regional services and
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 5.
History
The station is located on the Elberfeld–Dortmund line, which opened in 1848 by the
Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company
The Bergisch-Markisch Railway Company (german: Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME), also referred to as the Berg-Mark Railway Company or, more rarely, as the Bergisch-Markische Railway Company, was a German railway company that togethe ...
.
The station was opened as ''Kruckel station'' in 1897 by the
Prussian state railways
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and originally served as a loading station for the ''Vereinigte Wiendahlsbank'' colliery. From 1905, it was served by passenger trains. In 1950, the station was renamed ''Dortmund-Kruckel''.
[
Until 1988, regular long-distance trains served the station. At the opening of S-Bahn lines S 1 and line S 2, these long-distance trains had to regularly cross the S-Bahn tracks in ]Dortmund Hauptbahnhof
Dortmund Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station's origins lie in a joint station of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn and Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn which was built north of the city centr ...
on the level. To prevent this, Deutsche Bundesbahn
The Deutsche Bundesbahn or DB (German Federal Railway) was formed as the state railway of the newly established Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) on 7 September 1949 as a successor of the Deutsche Reichsbahn-Gesellschaft (DRG). The DB remained ...
constructed a new line between Dortmund-Dorstfeld and Bochum-Langendreer. Train services at Dortmund Kruckel have declined significantly since then. Today long-distance trains and the Wupper-Express
The Wupper-Express (RE 4) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) running from Aachen via Mönchengladbach, Düsseldorf, Wuppertal, Hagen to Dortmund. The service is operated every hour by DB Regio NRW. It ...
only operate via Dortmund-Kruckel when the main line
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* Main line railway preservation, the practice of operating preserved trains on an operational railw ...
via the Oberstraße Tunnel is blocked and services have to be rerouted.
For a long time there was a freight yard at Dortmund Kruckel, especially serving sidings to nearby companies.
Station
The station serves Kruckel, Persebeck and parts of the Witten
Witten () is a city with almost 100,000 inhabitants in the Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis (district) in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Geography
Witten is situated in the Ruhr valley, in the southern Ruhr area.
Bordering municipalities
* Bochum
* Dortmu ...
districts of Rüdinghausen and Schnee. As part of the conversion of the line from a regional line served by N 33 trains to an S-Bahn line, the platforms were raised to a height of 76 mm. Although there is access for wheelchair users to the platform, they cannot enter the S 5 trains, which have a step height of 96 mm, without outside help. It consists of two tracks that are accessed through side platforms. No structure links the platforms because the tracks can be crossed at the adjacent level crossing on Kruckeler Straße.
The station is currently classified as a category 6 station.[ It is considered as a halt (''Haltepunkt'') from an operational point of view,][ as the last ]crossover
Crossover may refer to:
Entertainment
Albums and songs
* ''Cross Over'' (Dan Peek album)
* ''Crossover'' (Dirty Rotten Imbeciles album), 1987
* ''Crossover'' (Intrigue album)
* ''Crossover'' (Hitomi Shimatani album)
* ''Crossover'' (Yoshino ...
s have been removed. The code for the operating point is EWIA (E = former railway division of Essen, Wi = Witten, Kr = Kruckel)
Since the restaurant was closed in the former station building after 35 years of operations, the building and the park and ride
A park and ride, also known as incentive parking or a commuter lot, is a parking lot with public transport connections that allows commuting, commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, Rail t ...
lot on the other side of the railway line have been for sale.
Train services
Since 1994, line S 5 services operated by DB Regio NRW
DB Regio AG is a List of Deutsche Bahn subsidiaries, subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates Regional rail, regional and Commuter rail, commuter train services in Germany. DB Regio AG, headquartered in Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main. It is a 1 ...
have served the station, originally operated during the day at intervals alternating between 20 and 40 minutes; since the timetable change of December 2009, the interval is regularly 30 minutes. This means that only one train an hour continues through Witten Hauptbahnhof as line S 8 to and from Hagen
Hagen () is the Largest cities in Germany, 41st-largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city in Germany. The municipality is located in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the south eastern edge of the R ...
, Wuppertal
Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and to ...
, Düsseldorf
Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in th ...
and Mönchengladbach
Mönchengladbach (, li, Jlabbach ) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Dutch border.
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Since 2009, the territory of Mönchengladbac ...
.
The circular route of bus line 448 of Dortmunder Stadtwerke
DSW21 customer center in Kampstraße, in front of Petri church.Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG is a municipal services and public transport company in Dortmund, wholly owned by the city of Dortmund. It is operating under the brand DSW21 since 2005. T ...
provides only a rudimentary feeder services from the outlying areas to the station.[
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References
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Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations
S5 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn)
Railway stations in Dortmund
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1897