Essen-Werden station

Essen-Werden
Bf
Location	Essen-Werden, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°23′13″N 6°59′53″E / 51.386824°N 6.997964°ECoordinates: 51°23′13″N 6°59′53″E / 51.386824°N 6.997964°E
Line(s)	Ruhr Valley Railway Essen-Werden–Essen railway
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	1713[1]
DS100 code	EEWD[2]
Category	5[1]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 February 1872[3]
Key dates
1968	S-Bahn service started[4]

Essen-Werden is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany. It serves the southern city borough Werden and is situated on the bank of the river Ruhr at the junction of the Ruhr Valley Railway and the line to Essen.

The station was opened in 1872 as part of the Düsseldorf-Werden-Kupferdreh line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn. In 1877, a line to Essen opened.^[3] Passenger services on the line to Kupferdreh closed on 29 May 1965.^[5]

The station today sees regular service by Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn trains on the S6 line since 1974. Trains currently run in 20-minute intervals.^[6]

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2016] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 1 December 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2016.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Essen-Werden station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
4. "S6: Köln-Nippes - Düsseldorf - Essen". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
5. "Line 2400: Düsseldorf - Hagen". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
6. "Essen-Werden station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 November 2013.