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Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of
Mülheim Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr () and also described as ''"City on the River"'', is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is home to many compan ...
in the
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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 was renamed as a Hauptbahnhof in 1974 at the time of the rebuilding of the Dortmund–Duisburg line as part of the establishment of the
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 ...
. It is classified by
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as a category 3 station. The original station is unusual in that it was built as two adjoining stations by the two main private railways buildings lines in the
Ruhr The Ruhr ( ; german: Ruhrgebiet , also ''Ruhrpott'' ), also referred to as the Ruhr area, sometimes Ruhr district, Ruhr region, or Ruhr valley, is a polycentric urban area in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. With a population density of 2,800/km ...
area, the
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 ...
(''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', ''RhE'') and 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 ...
(''Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft'', ''BME'').


History

The station was opened as ''Mülheim RhE'' as part of a section of the RhE's mainline through the Ruhr opened on 1 September 1866 between Osterath and
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 ...
. Just to the north of the RhE's station, the BME opened its own station in 1867 as ''Mülheim-Eppinghofen BME'' on its own main line opened in 1862 between
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 ...
and
Duisburg Duisburg () is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine and the Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruhr Region, Duisburg is the 5th largest city in Nor ...
. Although the two railways were nationalised in 1880 and 1882 the two stations were not linked. On 1 June 1888, the station was renamed ''Mülheim (Ruhr)'', but on 11 August 1892 it was again renamed as ''Mülheim-Eppinghofen'' because another station (now called '' Mülheim (Ruhr) West'') was then renamed as ''Mülheim (Ruhr)'', but it was never popularly accepted as the main station in Mülheim. Between 1905 and 1910 a common station with a peaked roof was built to serve both lines, but it was destroyed during
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and never rebuilt. During the electrification of the Cologne-Hamm line in the 1950s the stopping place for long-distance trains was moved back to the Eppinghofen station and on 22 May 1955 it was renamed ''Mülheim (Ruhr) Stadt'' ("city"). In 1974 the station was relocated with the opening of Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and finally renamed ''Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf''.


Current situation

The current station consists of four tracks to the east and west located on the site of the BME station. The RhE lines have been closed and dismantled. The following services currently call at Mülheim Hauptbahnhof:


Long-distance

A total of 11 long-distance trains per day stop at the station.


Regional services

In local passenger service, Mülheim is served by several regional and S-Bahn lines:


Public transport

An underground station for line U18 of the
Essen Stadtbahn The Essen Stadtbahn (german: Stadtbahn Essen) is a light rail (Stadtbahn) network in Essen and the two neighbouring towns of Mülheim an der Ruhr and Gelsenkirchen in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. It forms part of the Rhine-Ru ...
, line 102 of Mülheim/Oberhausen trams and line 901 of Duisburg trams lies adjacent to the former RhE station and is connected to the current station by a corridor. In addition, the station is served by several bus lines.


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mulheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations
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 ...
S1 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S3 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Railway stations in Germany opened in 1866 1866 establishments in Prussia