Düsseldorf-Benrath station is about 10 kilometres south of

Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof is the main railway station of Düsseldorf, the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. History The station was opened on 1 October 1891. It replaced the three following stations: *the ''Bergisch-Märkische ...

in the

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

district of Benrath. It is on the Cologne–Duisburg line, and is classified by

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as a category 3 station. In addition, Düsseldorf Benrath station is served by two

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services, several city bus services and two

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lines. Benrath is the second busiest station in Düsseldorf, after Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, with about 25,000–30,000 daily entries and exits. On 23 January 1998, the station was heritage-listed by the city of Düsseldorf in the category of technical monuments.

History

In 1843, the

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n Ministry of Finance gave the

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 ...

permission to build a railway line from

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via Düsseldorf to

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. Shares were put on sale to finance this project and many people from Benrath bought these shares on the understanding that Benrath would have a station on the new line. On 20 December 1845, the first section opened between Deutz and Duisburg and Benrath station was officially opened. In 1907, Benrath already handled over 250,000 passengers. The current station building dates from 1932 and replaced the original station. This old station was demolished, because it had become too small for the number of passengers using it and because raising the entire four-track railway line by 2.5 metres allowed a bridge to be over the street. On 25 May 1965

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visited Benrath and was received by the then Minister-President of

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Franz Meyers at the station, which had been decorated for the occasion.

Current situation

The station is located in a central location between the districts of

Düsseldorf-Benrath Benrath () is a quarter of Düsseldorf in the south of the city, part of Borough 9 (Düsseldorf), Borough 9. It has been a part of Düsseldorf since 1929. Benrath has an area of , and 17,178 inhabitants (2020). History The name Benrath came fro ...

, Düsseldorf-Urdenbach and

Düsseldorf-Garath Garath () is a suburb of Düsseldorf, Germany, south of the city centre and part of Borough 10 (Düsseldorf), Borough 10. It has an area of , and 19,048 inhabitants (2020). Geography Garath adjoins the Düsseldorf suburbs of Düsseldorf-Urde ...

. It is elevated above Hildener Straße, from which there is access via a tunnel. In addition, both tracks are equipped with lifts. There is parking on both the western and the eastern sides of the station. The station has two central platforms between the four tracks of the Cologne–Duisburg line. Two

services stop at the long-distance platform, while

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and

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trains pass the platform at 200 km/h without stopping.

Train services

Regional-Express lines RE 1 and RE 5 stop at the station every hour, and

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line S6 stops at 20-minute intervals. It is also served by

lines U71 and U83, six bus lines and three night express bus lines. The station is served by the following services:Timetables for Düsseldorf-Benrath station
/ref> *Regional services

NRW-Express The NRW-Express is a Regional-Express rail service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Aachen Hauptbahnhof, Aachen via Köln Hauptbahnhof, Cologne, Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof, Düsseldorf, Duisburg Hauptbahnhof, Duisbur ...

''Aachen - Cologne - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Hamm - Paderborn'' *Regional services

Rhein-Express The Rhein-Express is a Regional-Express (RE 5 (RRX)) service, which generally follows the Rhine () river. It runs daily every hour from 5 am to 9 pm from Wesel via Oberhausen, Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Bonn, Remagen and Andernach to Koblenz, ...

''Emmerich - Wesel - Oberhausen - Duisburg - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Bonn - Koblenz'' *Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services ''Essen - Kettwig - Düsseldorf - Cologne - Köln-Nippes'' *Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn services ''Langenfeld - Düsseldorf - Wuppertal-Vohwinkel''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dusseldorf-Benrath Station Railway stations in Düsseldorf Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S6 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S68 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Düsseldorf VRR stations Railway stations in Germany opened in 1845