Essen-Werden is a railway station in the city of Essen

Essen

- Origin of the name :In German-speaking countries, the name of the city Essen often causes confusion as to its origins, because it is commonly known as the German infinitive of the verb for the act of eating, and/or the German noun for food. Although scholars still dispute the interpretation of...

 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

Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn

The Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company was a Germany railway company that together with the Cologne-Minden Railway and the Rhenish Railway Company was one of the three private railway companies that in the mid-19th...

. In 1877, a line to Essen opened.
The line to Kupferdreh closed on May 29, 1955.

The station today sees regular service by Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn

Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn

The Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn is a polycentric S-Bahn network covering the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Region in the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia. This includes most of the Ruhr , the Berg cities of Wuppertal and Solingen and parts of the Rhineland...

 trains on the S6 line since 1974. Trains currently run in 20-minute intervals.