Dortmund-Brackel station explained

Dortmund-Brackel
Native Name Lang:de
Symbol:s
Symbol Location:rhine-ruhr
Type:Through station
Borough:Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country:Germany
Coordinates:51.5207°N 7.5501°W
Platforms:2
Opened:15 May 1976 [1]
Zone:VRR

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Website:www.bahnhof.de

Dortmund-Brackel is a railway station in the Dortmund district of Brackel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station. It was opened on 15 May 1976 on the Welver–Sterkrade railway completed between Welver and the old Dortmund Süd (south) station by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company on the same date and electrified on 25 May 1984.[3] A station building was built in 1895, but it was demolished in 1985.

It is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 4 at 30-minute intervals (15-minute intervals in the peak between Dortmund-Lütgendortmund and).[4] [5]

The station is also served by two bus routes, 420 (Scharnhorst – Derne + Aplerbeck, every 20 minutes) and 422 (Aplerbeck – Schüren + Wambel – Körne, every 30 minutes) operated by the municipal bus company, Dortmunder Stadtwerke (DSW21).[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dortmund-Brackel station operations . NRW Rail Archive . André Joost . 16 December 2013 . German.
  2. Web site: Tarifplan Dortmund . Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG . 8 May 2020 . November 2019.
  3. Web site: Line 2112: Welver - Dortmund Süd . NRW Rail Archive . André Joost . 15 December 2013 . German.
  4. Web site: Dortmund-Brackel station . NRW Rail Archive . André Joost . 16 December 2013 . German.
  5. Web site: VRR rapid-transit plan 2013 . PDF . VRR . 16 December 2013 . German.