Vohwinkel station is the most western station in the 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 to ...

. It is located in the district of Vohwinkel. It is a triangular station, built at a railway junction. Bahnhof Vohwinkel (2873083641)

History

The original station was built slightly further west than the present station in 1841 by the

Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company The Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company (German: ''Düsseldorf-Elberfelder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', DEE) was founded in October 1835 and officially recognised by a Prussian government statute on 23 September 1837. This gave the company a conces ...

. The

Prince William Railway The Prince William Railway Company ( German: ''Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', PWE) was an early horse-drawn railway in Germany. It was founded as the ''Deil Valley Railway Company'' (''Deilthaler Eisenbahn Aktiengesellschaft'') in 1828 ...

was extended to Vohwinkel in 1848, creating a railway junction. The present building was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the

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 ...

to the design of Alexander Rüdell. In the early 20th century a three km long

marshalling yard A classification yard (American and Canadian English (Canadian National Railway use)), marshalling yard (British, Hong Kong, Indian, Australian, and Canadian English (Canadian Pacific Railway use)) or shunting yard (Central Europe) is a railway ya ...

was built to the west of the station, but it has since been closed and demolished. In addition to the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld through line and the branch to the former ''Prince William line'' (now the line to Essen), in the past there was a railway line connecting to the now closed Wuppertal Northern Railway and the now closed Corkscrew line from

Solingen Solingen (; li, Solich) is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located some 25 km east of Düsseldorf along the northern edge of the region called Bergisches Land, south of the Ruhr area, and, with a 2009 population of 161,366, ...

terminated there.

Services

No long-distance services stop at the station, but it is served by the ''

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), the ''

Maas-Wupper-Express The Maas-Wupper-Express (RE 13) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from the Dutch border town of Venlo to Hamm in Westphalia. Route Together with the Wupper-Express (RE 4) and Rhine-Ruhr S ...

'' (RE 13), the

Wupper-Lippe-Express The Wupper-Lippe-Express is an hourly Regional-Express service in German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, which forms part of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It connects Wesel with Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof via Oberhausen and Essen. The line is operated by ...

and the (RE 49)

Regional-Express In Germany, Luxembourg and Austria, the Regional-Express (RE, or in Austria: REX) is a type of regional train. It is similar to a semi-fast train, with average speed at about 70–90 km/h (top speed often 160 km/h) as it calls at f ...

services and the ''

Rhein-Wupper-Bahn The Rhein-Wupper-Bahn is a Regionalbahn service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It connects the cities of Wuppertal, Solingen, Leverkusen, Cologne and Bonn and it is operated by National Express. Route The line runs mainly over t ...

'' (RB 48) Regionalbahn service and lines S8, S9, S28 and

S68 S68 may refer to: * S-68, a Greenlandic sport club * S68 (Long Island bus) * S68 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn), a commuter rail line * BMW S68, an automobile engine * County Route S68 (Bergen County, New Jersey) * Gunaikurnai language * Sikorsky S-68, an Amer ...

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 a short walk from both and on the (Wuppertal Suspension Railway)

References

{{reflist Railway stations in Wuppertal Railway stations in Germany opened in 1841 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations S8 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S9 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Art Nouveau architecture in Germany Art Nouveau railway stations 1841 establishments in Prussia