Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station
Through station
General information
Location	Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°13′46.5″N 6°47′51.8″E / 51.229583°N 6.797722°E / 51.229583; 6.797722
Line(s)	Cologne–Duisburg (KBS 415) Düsseldorf–Essen
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	1403[1]
DS100 code	KDW[2]
IBNR	8001582
Category	4[1]
Fare zone	VRR: 430[3] VRS: 1430 (VRR transitional tariff)[4]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1967[5]
Passengers
15,000–20,000[6]
Services
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station Düsseldorf Hbf towards Solingen Hbf S1 Düsseldorf Zoo towards Dortmund Hbf Düsseldorf Hbf towards Köln-Nippes S6 Düsseldorf Zoo towards Essen Hbf Düsseldorf Hbf towards Bergisch Gladbach S11 Düsseldorf Zoo towards Düsseldorf Airport Terminal Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn Following station Uhlandstraße towards Düsseldorf-Rath U71 Pempelforter Straße towards Benrath Betriebshof Uhlandstraße towards Hellriegelstraße U72 Pempelforter Straße towards Ratingen Mitte Uhlandstraße towards Universität Ost/Botanischer Garten U73 Pempelforter Straße towards Düsseldorf-Gerresheim Uhlandstraße towards Gerresheim Krankenhaus U83 Pempelforter Straße towards Benrath Betriebshof
Location
Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn station is located about one kilometre north of Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof in central Düsseldorf in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Cologne–Duisburg line and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.^[1]

Düsseldorf Wehrhahn is also a stop for several bus routes. It is also stop of the new Wehrhahn-line which consists four Stadtbahn lines.

Station layout[edit]

The station is centrally located between the districts of Düsseldorf-Stadtmitte, Düsseldorf-Flingern and Düsseldorf-Düsseltal. The station is located below a road bridge, over which buses and Stadtbahn cross the station area and which is also the beginning of Grafenberger Allee.

Lines[edit]

The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn lines S1 (every 30 minutes during the day), S6 (every 20 minutes) and S11 (every 20 minutes).^[7] Six tram lines and seven bus routes stop at Düsseldorf Wehrhahn stop above the station and at Birkenstraße and Elisabethkirche stops, which are located on the exit to Ackerstraße in Flingern-Nord district.

Stadtbahn[edit]

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 enter the new tunnel via a ramp at Bilk station and run from there underneath the city centre towards the north-east, where they emerge shortly before Wehrhahn railway station, hence the line's nickname. 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.^[8]

Notes[edit]

References[edit]

• Amt für Verkehrsmanagement - Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf (2003). Nahverkehrsplan 2002–2007 (in German). Düsseldorf: Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf.
• Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr (1999). Argumente für den ÖPNV (in German). Vol. 9, Zielnetz 2015. VRR GmbH.