Essen-Zollverein Nord Station
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Essen Zollverein Nord is a railway station situated in close proximity to the
Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (German Zeche Zollverein) is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activities took plac ...
on the Duisburg–Dortmund railway situated in
Essen Essen (; Latin: ''Assindia'') is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and D ...
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 6 station. It was originally named ''Zollverein'', renamed ''Caternberg'' in 1897, ''Caternberg Süd'' between 1897 and 1905, ''Katernberg Süd'' between 1905 and 1912, ''Essen-Katernberg Süd'' in 1949 and ''Essen-Zollverein Nord'' on 13 December 2009. A station building was built in 1897, but was demolished between 1960 and 1990. It is served by Regionalbahn lines RB32 ( Rhein-Emscher-Bahn) and RB35 (
Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn The Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn (RB 35) is a Regionalbahn service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It runs hourly between Gelsenkirchen and Duisburg with Mönchengladbach. Its name refers to the Emscher river (which runs near Dui ...
), Essen tramway 107 (Gelsenkirchen Hbf + Hbf – Bredeney) and by bus routes 170 (Schonnebeck – Kray – Steele + Altenessen - Borbeck) and 183 (Katernberger Markt + Altenessen – Karlsplatz) operated by Ruhrbahn.


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S2 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations Zollverein Nord Railway stations in Germany opened in 1887 {{NorthRhineWestphalia-railstation-stub