Düsseldorf-Gerresheim station is a through station in the district of Gerresheim in the city of

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

in the German state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...

. The station was opened along with the

Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway The Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway is a 27 km long main line railway in Germany, originally built by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company, connecting Düsseldorf and Elberfeld (now Wuppertal) via Erkrath, Hochdahl and Vohwinkel. It ...

from

Erkrath Erkrath () is a town in the Mettmann (district), district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Erkrath is situated on the river Düssel, directly east of Düsseldorf and west of Wuppertal, close to the famous Neandertal. It ...

by the

Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company The Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company (German language, 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 ...

on 20 December 1838. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by

Deutsche Bahn (, ; abbreviated as DB or DB AG ) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG). DB was fou ...

as a category 5 station. Its station building, which has been refurbished as ''Kulturbahnhof'' (culture station) is the oldest extant station building in Germany. The station is served by

Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn () is a polycentric S-bahn network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federated state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr (and cities such as Dortmund, Duisburg and Essen), the B ...

lines S8 between

Mönchengladbach Mönchengladbach (, ) is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in North Rhine-Westphalia, western Germany, west of the Rhine, halfway between Düsseldorf and the Netherlands, Dutch border. Geography Municipal subdivisions Since 2009, th ...

and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or

Hagen Hagen () is a city in the States of Germany, state of North Rhine-Westphalia, in western Germany, on the southeastern edge of the Ruhr area, 15 km south of Dortmund, where the rivers Lenne and Volme meet the Ruhr (river), Ruhr. In 2023, the ...

every 20 minutes, S28 between Mettmann Stadtwald or

Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof (German language, German for Wuppertal central station) is a railway station in the city of Wuppertal, just south of the Ruhr Area, in the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on Elberfeld–Dortmund rail ...

and Kaarster See every 20 and several

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 ...

services between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Langenfeld in the peak hour. The station is also served by

Stadtbahn (; German for 'city railway'; plural ) is a German word referring to various types of urban rail transport. One type of transport originated in the 19th century, firstly in Berlin and followed by Vienna, where rail routes were created that co ...

line U73 and bus routes 730, 736, 736, and 737, all operated by

Rheinbahn Rheinbahn is a German public transport operator operating in Düsseldorf, Meerbusch and Kreis Mettmann. Its network consists of the Düsseldorf Stadtbahn, a network of 11 Stadtbahn (light rail) lines which are integrated in the Rhine-Ruhr St ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dusseldorf-Gerresheim Station Düsseldorf VRR stations S8 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S68 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S28 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations Railway stations in Germany opened in 1838 1838 establishments in Prussia