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.

Gevelsberg Hauptbahnhof
Through station
General information
LocationJahnstrasse 12, Gevelsberg, NRW
Germany
Coordinates51°19′26″N 7°20′22″E
Line(s)
Other information
Station code2113
DS100 codeEGVH
IBNR8002267
Category6
Fare zoneVRR: 679
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened15 September 1879
Services
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station
Gevelsberg-Kipp
towards Mönchengladbach Hbf
S8 Gevelsberg-Knapp
towards Hagen Hbf
Gevelsberg-Kipp
towards Haltern am See or Recklinghausen Hbf
S9
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