Wetter (Ruhr) station is in the district of Vorhalle in the centre of the city

Wetter (Ruhr) Wetter (Ruhr) is a town in western Germany, in the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the district of Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis. The river Ruhr flows through the urban area, separating the district of Alt-Wetter from the districts of Esborn, Vol ...

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 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 and was opened on 9 March 1849 as a through station 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 original station building, which was built in 1850, was demolished by the

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and replaced by the existing building in 1905. On 17 March 1920 there was fighting at the station during the Ruhr Uprising, between units of the

Ruhr Red Army The Ruhr Red Army (13 March – 12 April 1920) was an army of between 50,000 and 80,000 left-wing workers who conducted what was known as the Ruhr Uprising (''Ruhraufstand''), in the Weimar Republic. It was the largest armed workers' uprising in ...

and a vanguard of the Freikorps Lichtschlag, in response to the

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. A plaque commemorates the events. In 1994, line S 5 services of the

began operating on the line through the station and regional service N 33 was discontinued. Today the station building is no longer used by the railway. Instead the city library has been located here since 2007. A catering business has also occupied the building since the spring of 2008.

Train services

The station is currently served by S 5 services at 30-minute intervals, hourly services of the ''Ruhr-Lenne-Bahn'' (RB 40) and hourly services of the

Ruhr-Lenne-Express The Ruhr-Lenne-Express (RE 16) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, running from Essen via Bochum, Witten, Bochum, Hagen and Iserlohn-Letmathe to . It is operated by DB Regio NRW hourly. History In the ...

(RE 16). These three services are now operated by

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. It is also served by hourly

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 ...

(RE 4) services, operated by

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. Long-distance passenger services pass through without stopping. Freight trains do not regularly operate through the station, because freight trains use the Ruhr Valley line on the other side of 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 ...

. The station is also a bus junction and an important point of interchange between rail and urban transport. It is served by the express bus route SB38 and city bus lines 541, 553, 555, 591, 592, 593 and 595, operated by ''Hagener Straßenbahn AG'', ''Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr'' and ''Busverkehr Rheinland'', at hourly intervals.

Station

The station is currently classified as a category 5 station. It is considered as a halt (german: Haltepunkt) from an operational point of view, as all

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s have been removed. Between the two tracks there is a central platform, which can be accessed via a staircase, but it can also be accessed by barrier-free ramps so that wheelchair users can reach trains without help. There is a parking garage next to the station, used by park-and-ride commuters. The station is close to the ''Ruhrtal Center'', a shopping centre.

References

{{reflist, 30em Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S5 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Railway stations in Germany opened in 1849 1849 establishments in Prussia Buildings and structures in Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis