Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of

Mülheim Mülheim, officially Mülheim an der Ruhr (, ; ; ) and also described as ''"City on the River"'', is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany. It is located in the Ruhr Area between Duisburg, Essen, Oberhausen and Ratingen. It is ho ...

in the

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state of

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. It was renamed as a Hauptbahnhof in 1974 at the time of the rebuilding of the Dortmund–Duisburg line as part of the establishment of the

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 ...

. It is classified by

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as a category 3 station. The original station is unusual in that it was built as two adjoining stations by the two main private railways buildings lines in the

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area, the

Rhenish Railway Company The Rhenish Railway Company (German language, 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 m ...

(''Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', ''RhE'') and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (''Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft'', ''BME'').

History

The station was opened as ''Mülheim RhE'' as part of a section of the RhE's mainline through the Ruhr opened on 1 September 1866 between Osterath and

Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

. Just to the north of the RhE's station, the BME opened its own station in 1867 as ''Mülheim-Eppinghofen BME'' on its own main line opened in 1862 between

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and

Duisburg Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...

. Although the two railways were nationalised in 1880 and 1882 the two stations were not linked. On 1 June 1888, the station was renamed ''Mülheim (Ruhr)'', but on 11 August 1892 it was again renamed as ''Mülheim-Eppinghofen'' because another station (now called '' Mülheim (Ruhr) West'') was then renamed as ''Mülheim (Ruhr)'', but it was never popularly accepted as the main station in Mülheim. Between 1905 and 1910 a common station with a peaked roof was built to serve both lines, but it was destroyed during

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and never rebuilt. During the electrification of the Cologne-Hamm line in the 1950s the stopping place for long-distance trains was moved back to the Eppinghofen station and on 22 May 1955 it was renamed ''Mülheim (Ruhr) Stadt'' ("city"). In 1974 the station was relocated with the opening of Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and finally renamed ''Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf''. During the renovations in 2010 and 2011, the main building was almost completely modernised, the pedestrian tunnels were redesigned, and the station forecourt was renovated. A total of €2.1 million was invested in the renovation of the main building. With the commissioning of the electronic interlocking system for the Mülheim-Styrum to Essen West area in May 2021, Mülheim Hbf station lost its last set of points. So it is now considered a ''Haltepunkt'' (halt) not a ''bahnhof'' (station), despite being a ''Hauptbahnhof'' (main station).

Current situation

The current station consists of four tracks to the east and west located on the site of the BME station. The RhE lines have been closed and dismantled. The following services currently call at Mülheim Hauptbahnhof:

Long-distance

The following long-distance trains stopped at the station in 2023.

Regional services

In local passenger service, Mülheim is served by several regional and S-Bahn lines:

Public transport

An underground station for line U18 of the Essen Stadtbahn, line 102 of Mülheim/Oberhausen trams and line 901 of Duisburg trams lies adjacent to the former RhE station and is connected to the current station by a corridor. In addition, the station is served by several bus lines.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Mulheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations Hauptbahnhof S1 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) S3 (Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn) Railway stations in Germany opened in 1866 1866 establishments in Prussia