Witten-Annen Nord station is located in the

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district of

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 * Dortmun ...

in the German state of

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. The station is currently classified as a category 6 station. It is served by

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 ...

line S 5.

History

''Annen station'' was opened on 9 March 1849 by the

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(german: link=no, Bergisch Märkischen Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, BME) on its original Elberfeld–Dortmund line and was served by passenger and freight trains. After the opening of the ''Annen Süd'' station on the Dortmund-Löttringhausen–Bochum-Langendreer line (known as the ''Rheinischer Esel''—“Rhenish donkey”) of the

Rhenish Railway Company The Rhenish Railway Company (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 mid-19th century ...

on 15 December 1880, it was renamed ''Annen Nord'' station. In the 1980s the old BME station building was replaced by commercial buildings and the freight loading ramp disappeared in the 1990s. As part of a program of rationalisation of freight operations between 2002 and 2004 (known as ''MORA C''), the last freight operations at the station were abandoned.

Train services

Witten-Annen Nord station and

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are the only

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stations in the city of Witten. Since 1994, line S 5 services operated by

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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 one train an hour continues through Witten Hauptbahnhof to and from Hagen. In the evening there are a few direct connections via Hagen and Wuppertal to Düsseldorf/Mönchengladbach. There is also a bus junction at the station served by bus lines 320 and 375 operated by BOGESTRA and 373 of the Verkehrsgesellschaft Ennepe-Ruhr, connecting with central Witten, Rüdinghausen,

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, Durchholz, Heven, Stockum, the Kemnader See, the Lottenbach valley and

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. At night (weekend) the station is also connected by night bus line NE18 to Bochum-Langendreer via Witten-Stockum and central Witten.

Station

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

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was removed in May 2006. The code for the operating point is EWIA (E = former railway division of Essen, Wi = Witten, A = Annen Nord) and its international station number is 8006510. The current station building was built for the purpose in the 1980s by

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. In addition to access to the platform there is a pharmacy and a clothing store. The platform approach is not suitable for wheelchairs, so wheelchair users cannot use the S 5 without help. There on the roof over the station car park, which us used by

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commuters. Close to the station, there is also bicycle storage for "

bike 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 commuters and other people heading to city centres to leave their vehicles and transfer to a bus, rail system (ra ...

" commuters.

References

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