Dortmund-Mengede station
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Dortmund-Mengede station is located in the Dortmund
suburb of Mengede in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia
. The station was opened in 1848 as part of the trunk line
of the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company
.
Mengede station is used by a range of passenger services and includes an area to the north-west of the passenger station that is used for shunting and freight. Four tracks are available for passenger operations. Two tracks are served by the Regional-Express service RE 3, Rhein-Emscher-Express, the other two tracks are served by S-Bahn line S 2. The two platforms are connected by an underground pedestrian tunnel. The walkway tunnel is not yet equipped with lifts, so people in wheelchairs can only use the platforms with assistance.
At the station there are 136 park and ride spaces for cars and 16 bicycle lockers, which were built as part of the “Bike and Ride” concept. An expansion of the capacity of these facilities is planned.
The station’s platform canopy is listed as a monument by the city of Dortmund.
The freight and marshalling yard is used mainly handle coal despatched to the Gustav Knepper Power Station
. Formerly coal was transported from the Adolf von Hansemann colliery, which closed in 1967.
Dortmund
Dortmund is a city in Germany. It is located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. Its population of 585,045 makes it the 7th largest city in Germany and the 34th largest in the European Union....
suburb of Mengede in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...
. The station was opened in 1848 as part of the trunk line
Cologne-Minden trunk line
The Cologne-Minden trunk line is a railway built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company . The line is the westernmost part of the railway line from Berlin to the Rhine that was proposed by Friedrich List in his Concept for a railway network in Germany, published in 1833...
of the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company
Cologne-Minden Railway Company
The Cologne-Minden Railway Company was along with the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rhenish Railway Company one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th century built the first railways in the Ruhr and large parts of today's North Rhine-Westphalia.-Founding :The founding of the...
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Mengede station is used by a range of passenger services and includes an area to the north-west of the passenger station that is used for shunting and freight. Four tracks are available for passenger operations. Two tracks are served by the Regional-Express service RE 3, Rhein-Emscher-Express, the other two tracks are served by S-Bahn line S 2. The two platforms are connected by an underground pedestrian tunnel. The walkway tunnel is not yet equipped with lifts, so people in wheelchairs can only use the platforms with assistance.
At the station there are 136 park and ride spaces for cars and 16 bicycle lockers, which were built as part of the “Bike and Ride” concept. An expansion of the capacity of these facilities is planned.
The station’s platform canopy is listed as a monument by the city of Dortmund.
The freight and marshalling yard is used mainly handle coal despatched to the Gustav Knepper Power Station
Gustav Knepper Power Station
Gustav Knepper Power Station is a coal-fired power station in Dortmund-Mengede, close to Castrop-Rauxel.Gustav Knepper Power Station was built on the area of former coal mine Gustav Knepper. Owner of the Gustav Knepper Power station first was the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks AG, then the Bochumer...
. Formerly coal was transported from the Adolf von Hansemann colliery, which closed in 1967.