Düsseldorf-Bilk station

Düsseldorf-Bilk station
Through station
Location	Bilk, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°12′28″N 6°46′37″E / 51.207713°N 6.776874°ECoordinates: 51°12′28″N 6°46′37″E / 51.207713°N 6.776874°E
Line(s)	Düsseldorf–Elberfeld (KBS 450.8
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	1405
DS100 code	KDBH
IBNR	8001585
Category	4 [1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1891
Services
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße toward Mönchengladbach Hbf S 8 Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt toward Hagen Hbf Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße toward Bergisch Gladbach S 11 Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt toward Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal Düsseldorf Völklinger Straße toward Kaarster See S 28 Düsseldorf-Friedrichstadt toward Mettmann Stadtwald

Düsseldorf-Bilk station is a through station in the district of Bilk in the city of Düsseldorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.^[1]

History

The station is on the new line opened by the Prussian state railways on 1 October 1891 between the Hamm Railway Bridge and Gerresheim as part of the construction of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof.^[2] The station building built in 1891 was demolished in 1986,^[3] as part of the rebuilding of the line for the establishment of Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S 8.

Services

The station is served by S-Bahn lines S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen, S 11 between Düsseldorf Airport and Bergisch Gladbach and S 28 between Mettmann Stadtwald and Kaarster See, each every 20 minutes.^[4]

It is served by two bus routes operated by Rheinbahn at 20 minute intervals: 835 and 836.^[4]

Stadtbahn

The Düsseldorf Stadtbahn has a tunnel from Düsseldorf-Bilk station to Düsseldorf-Wehrhahn station, known as the Wehrhahn line (German: Wehrhahn-Linie). This 3.5 km tunnel was completed in 2016. Just as every other underground line opened previously in Düsseldorf, the Wehrhahn line is a replacement for current surface tram lines. The trams on this line are entering the new tunnel over a ramp at Bilk station and run from there underneath the city centre towards the north-east, where they are emerging shortly before Wehrhahn railway station. Five new underground stations and the station Heinrich-Heine-Allee are part of the line, which serve an estimated daily passenger volume of approximately 53,000. These new stations are Pempelforter Straße, Schadowstraße, the existing station Heinrich-Heine-Allee, Benrather Straße, Graf-Adolf-Platz and Kirchplatz (Düsseldorf) in the direction from Wehrhahn station to Bilk station. The new lines are the U71, U72, U73 and the U83.

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
2. "Line 2550: Aachen - Kassel". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
3. "Düsseldorf-Bilk station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 November 2011.
4. "Düsseldorf-Bilk station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 November 2011.