Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof

Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof
Deutsche Bahn Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
Through station
The station building
Location Heinz-Rühmann-Platz 1, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°31′53″N 7°9′57″E / 51.53139°N 7.16583°E / 51.53139; 7.16583Coordinates: 51°31′53″N 7°9′57″E / 51.53139°N 7.16583°E / 51.53139; 7.16583
Owned by DB Netz
Operated by DB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms 8
Train operators Abellio Rail NRW
DB Regio NRW
eurobahn
NordWestBahn
Connections S 2
Other information
Station code 6533[1]
DS100 codeEWAN[2]
IBNR8000192
Category3[1]
Fare zone Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened
  • 1856 (freight yard)
  • 1864 (passenger station)
Services
Preceding station   Abellio Rail NRW   Following station
Terminus
RB 46
Glückauf-Bahn
Bochum-Riemke
toward Bochum Hbf
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
RE 2
Rhein-Haard-Express
toward Münster Hbf
RE 42
Niers-Haard-Express
toward Münster Hbf
Preceding station   eurobahn   Following station
RE 3
Rhein-Emscher-Express
toward Hamm Hbf
Preceding station   NordWestBahn   Following station
Gelsenkirchen-Zoo
toward Dorsten
RB 43
Emschertal-Bahn
toward Dortmund Hbf
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
S 2
toward Dortmund Hbf
Location
Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof
Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the former city of Wanne-Eickel, now part of Herne in western Germany.

History

The station grew out of the Pluto-Thies freight yard, opened in 1856 on the Duisburg–Dortmund line section of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company's trunk line, which was opened in 1847. In 1864, a halt was opened there for passengers. In 1867 a new freight yard was opened, which was initially called Pluto, but changed to Wanne (literally “basin”, a description of the landscape) in 1869, because the surrounding villages could not agree on a name for the yard. The station's name was reflected in 1875 when the villages of Eickel, Bicker, Crange, Holsterhausen and Röhlinghausen were merged under the name of Amt Wanne.[3]

With the opening of the line to Münster on 1 January 1870, Wanne station became a railway junction. In 1913 the station building and the track work were rebuilt and extended.

After the formation of the city of Wanne-Eickel in 1926, the station was renamed Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof. It became the largest marshalling yard in the central Ruhr area and the only station in the Ruhr that included all four forms of rail operations: in addition to its role as a marshalling yard, it was the home depot for over 300 locomotives along with associated rolling stock, a freight yard and a passenger station.

Current operations

Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof is a station of major traffic importance as a crossroads on the east-west Dortmund–Duisburg line and the north-south Münster–Essen line, which among other things, is the beginning of the Rollbahn (rolling railway) to Hamburg. In addition, the station is located on the Emscher Valley Railway (Dortmund–Wanne-Eickel–Dorsten) and the Bochum–Gelsenkirchen Railway (also known as the Glückauf-Bahn—“good luck railway”). Part of the old marshalling yard still operates with shunting from west to east over a hump, but other freight operations are closed.

Following the merger of the cities of Herne and Wanne-Eickel in 1975 the name of the station remained as Wanne–Eickel Hauptbahnhof, although it is the largest station in the city of Herne on its current boundaries. In 2003, Deutsche Bahn planned to rename it Herne-Wanne or Herne Hauptbahnhof. However, these plans met with considerable resistance in the Wanne area, as well as from local politicians in Herne.

Lines

Long-distance

Wanne-Eickel is served by one InterCity service:

LineRoute
IC 35 Norddeich Mole – Leer (Ostf.) – Münster (Westf) – Wanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – Oberhausen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Trier – Luxembourg

Regional

Wanne-Eickel is served by the two Regional-Express and three Regionalbahn lines, as well as the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.

LineLine nameRoute
RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express Mönchengladbach – Krefeld – Duisburg – Essen – Wanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – Recklinghausen – Münster (Westf)
RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express Düsseldorf – Duisburg – Oberhausen – Wanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – Herne – Dortmund – Hamm (Westf)
RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express Mönchengladbach – Krefeld – Essen – Wanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – Recklinghausen – Haltern – Münster (Westf)
RB 43 Emschertal-Bahn Dorsten – Wanne-Eickel – Herne – Dortmund
RB 46 Glückauf-Bahn Gelsenkirchen – Wanne-Eickel – Bochum
S 2 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn ((Duisburg / Essen –) Gelsenkirchen ) / Recklinghausen – Herne – Dortmund

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Stationspreisliste 2018" [Station price list 2018] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 5 October 2017. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. ↑ "Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof (EWAN) operations". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  • "Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
  • "Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof track plan" (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
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