Kettwig railway station
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Essen
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in western Germany on the Ruhr Valley Railway.
History
A first station at Kettwig was opened in 1871 by the Bergisch-Märkische EisenbahnBergisch-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...
and passenger service on the line Düsseldorf-Kettwig-Kupferdreh was started on February 1, 1872. A proper station hall and ticket office was commissioned in 1873 and erected in 1875, the old station building was sold to Wermelskirchen
Wermelskirchen
Wermelskirchen is a town in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, southeast of Remscheid. It is home to the world's biggest live Christmas tree.-Coat of arms:...
. During 1873, another single-track railway line to Mülheim an der Ruhr was also built.
The BME was integrated into the state railways of Prussia
Prussia
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in 1882, and in 1887 a second track was built between Kettwig and Werden.
In 1905, Kettwig was upgraded to a 1st class station, with express trains like the Essen to Basel
Basel
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service calling at the station. A passenger tunnel to access the second platform was also constructed.
In 1926, after a construction time of over 13 years, a railway line to Velbert
Velbert
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via Heiligenhaus
Heiligenhaus
Heiligenhaus is a town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the suburban Rhine-Ruhr area. It lies between Düsseldorf and Essen.The town is twinned with Basildon and Mansfield of the United Kingdom....
was connected to the station, crossing the Ruhr on a third bridge.
In March, 1945 the Ruhr bridges at Kettwig were destroyed by the German army. Services to Mülheim and Velbert were carried out from Kettwig Stausee railway station
Kettwig Stausee railway station
Kettwig Stausee is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany on the Ruhr Valley line. It serves the southern part of the Kettwig borough, Kettwig vor der Brücke, and is situated right next to the river Ruhr.-History:...
instead, and only a single bridge connecting the line to Düsseldorf was ever constructed after World War II.
The Kettwig depot was closed in 1953 by the Deutsche Bundesbahn
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In 1968, the railway line Düsseldorf-Kettwig-Essen was fully electrified, and on May 22, 1968 the first line of the 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...
started calling at Kettwig. The S-Bahn
S-Bahn
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line was renamed to S6 in 1974.
Services at the station were substantially cut by November 1, 1977 when the station lost its autonomy due to the merger of Kettwig with 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...
. The ticket hall and station hall were closed, and the station was downgraded to a dependent outpost of Essen Hauptbahnhof
Essen Hauptbahnhof
is the Hauptbahnhof for the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway.It was opened in 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn...
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The former ticket hall building was sold to the city of Essen in 2001 and is now used as a cultural centre and restaurant.
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.