Wuppertal-Unterbarmen station is located in the German city of

Wuppertal Wuppertal (; "''Wupper Dale''") is, with a population of approximately 355,000, the seventh-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia as well as the 17th-largest city of Germany. It was founded in 1929 by the merger of the cities and tow ...

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 state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

. It is on the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.

History

No station was built at Unterbarmen, when 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 togeth ...

, was opened its Elberfeld–Dortmund trunk line. It was opened in 1880 under the name of ''Unterbarmen BM''. It was opened in the western part of the then independent city of Barmen. Somewhat later ''Unter-Barmen Rh'' station (later ''Wuppertal-Loh'' station) was opened on the competing line 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 ...

. The station was designed as a through station with two long-distance and two local tracks. A fifth track provided a shuttle connection to Barmen station, which was used for shunting, without blocking the long-distance and local tracks. Near the station were the company of ''Rittershaus & Blecher GmbH'' (now ''Christian-Morgenstern-Schule'') and the ''Wicküler Brewery''. Thus, a large amount of freight was handled at the station. In 1897, the station was renamed ''Barmen-Unterbarmen'' by

Prussian state railways The term Prussian state railways (German: ''Preußische Staatseisenbahnen'') encompasses those railway organisations that were owned or managed by the State of Prussia. The words "state railways" are not capitalized because Prussia did not have a ...

. It was renamed ''Unterbarmen'' in 1930 and ''Wuppertal-Unterbarmen'' in 1950. Two signal boxes were closed in 1978.

Station

The entrance building, which is built on an embankment, now serves only as a western access to the platforms of the S-Bahn line. An eastern access to the platforms is located on a pedestrian overpass over railway tracks. Two park-and-ride parking lots are located at the station, the biggest to the southwest of the platform. Barrier-free access to the platform for the disabled is only available from the smaller car park at the entrance building. The station is currently classified as a category 4 station. Access for long distance trains to the platforms and the platforms themselves have been dismantled, but the mainline tracks are still in the same position, so that the area between the tracks at the station is much greater than usual.

Rail services

The station is served by S 8 services between

Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof Mönchengladbach Hauptbahnhof ( German for ''Mönchengladbach main station'') is a railway station in the city of Mönchengladbach in western Germany. Overview The station is the largest railway station in the city and, along with Rheydt Hbf, o ...

and

Hagen Hauptbahnhof Hagen Hauptbahnhof is a railway station serving the city of Hagen in western Germany. It is an important rail hub for the southeastern Ruhr area, offering regional and long distance connections. The station was opened in 1848 as part of the Bergi ...

(two out of three each hour terminating at Wuppertal-Oberbarmen). It is also served by line S 9 running from Recklinghausen to Hagen Hauptbahnhof. It is also served by line S 7 service Der Müngstener to Solingen Hbf. It is also served by bus route CE61, operated by ''WSW mobil'' at 20-minute intervals during the day.

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*{{cite web, title=Wuppertal stations , publisher= Bahnen-Wuppertal.de , language=German , url=http://www.bahnen-wuppertal.de/html/bahnhoefe.html , accessdate=12 October 2011 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S7 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S8 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S9 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Railway stations in Wuppertal Railway stations in Germany opened in 1880