Hochdahl station
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Ziegeleiweg 3, Erkrath, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | |||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°13′07″N 6°56′40″E / 51.218597°N 6.944333°ECoordinates: 51°13′07″N 6°56′40″E / 51.218597°N 6.944333°E | |||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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Station code | 2798[1] | |||||||||||||||
DS100 code | KHO | |||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8002868 | |||||||||||||||
Category | 5[1] | |||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||
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Opened | 10 April 1841[2] | |||||||||||||||
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![]() ![]() Hochdahl Location within North Rhine-Westphalia |
Hochdahl station is a through station in the district of Hochdahl of the town of Erkrath in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]
History
The station was opened with the section of the Düsseldorf–Elberfeld railway from Erkrath to Wuppertal-Vohwinkel built by the Düsseldorf-Elberfeld Railway Company on 10 April 1841.[3] The line between Erkrath and Hochdahl has a gradient of 3.33% and rises 82 m in about 2.5 km. For more than one hundred years, this was the steepest main line in Europe. For many years trains had to be hauled by cable, originally driven by a stationary steam engine. A few months later haulage by cable attached to a stationary steam engine was changed to haulage by cable attached via pulleys to a locomotive running downhill on an additional track. With the duplication of the remainder of the line in 1865, the steep section of line became three-track, until the electrification of the line in 1963. The third track was rebuilt in 1985, as part of the additional third track built for the planned S-Bahn line. In 1926, cable haulage on the incline was replaced by bank engines.
Services
The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen every 20 minutes and several S 68 services between Wuppertal-Vohwinkel and Langenfeld in the peak hour.[4]
It is also served by two bus routes operated by Rheinbahn every 20-60 minutes: O5 and 741.
References
- 1 2 3 "Stationspreisliste 2018" [Station price list 2018] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
- ↑ "Hochdahl station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ↑ "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.
- ↑ "Hochdahl station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 30 October 2011.