Gevelsberg Hauptbahnhof
Gevelsberg Hauptbahnhof (German for Gevelsberg main station) is a railway station in the municipality of Gevelsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened along with a section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, opened by the Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) between Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen and Hagen RhE station (now Hagen-Eckesey depot) on 15 September 1879. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. It is the only Hauptbahnhof in Germany, which in fact is not a Bahnhof, but a Haltepunkt ("halt", defined in Germany as having no sets of points). It and Remscheid Hauptbahnhof are the only Hauptbahnhof stations which are served only by S-Bahn trains.
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Location | Jahnstrasse 12, Gevelsberg, NRW Germany | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°19′26″N 7°20′22″E | ||||||||||||||
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Station code | 2113 | ||||||||||||||
DS100 code | EGVH | ||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8002267 | ||||||||||||||
Category | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Fare zone | VRR: 679 | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||
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Opened | 15 September 1879 | ||||||||||||||
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