Dortmund-Mengede station explained

Dortmund-Mengede
Native Name Lang:de
Symbol:rail
Symbol2:s
Symbol Location:de
Symbol Location2:Dortmund
Type:Through station
Borough:Dortmund-Mengede, North Rhine-Westphalia
Country:Germany
Coordinates:51.5703°N 7.3747°W
Owned:DB Netz
Operator:DB Station&Service
Platforms:4
Opened:1848 [1]
Zone:VRR

377[2]

Website:www.bahnhof.de

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.[3]

The freight and marshalling yard was used mainly to handle coal despatched to the Gustav Knepper Power Station until its closure in 2014. Formerly coal was transported from the Adolf von Hansemann colliery, which closed in 1967.

Services

It is served by the RE 3 (Rhein-Emscher-Express) and the RB32 (Rhein-Emscher-Bahn), each hourly, and line S 2 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn every 30 minutes.[4] [5]

Line Line name Route
Rhein-Emscher-ExpressDüsseldorfDuisburgOberhausenGelsenkirchenDortmund-MengedeDortmundHamm (Westf)
Rhein-Emscher-BahnDuisburg – Gelsenkirchen – Dortmund-Mengede – Dortmund
S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr(Essen – Gelsenkirchen) / (Recklinghausen) – Dortmund-Mengede – Dortmund

It is also served by bus routes 470 (Mengede- Oespel) ; 473 (Mengede- Eving) ; 474 (Mengede - Groppenbruch [- Lünen-Brambauer]) ; 475 (Mengede - Dortmund Central Station) and 482 (Mengede - Castrop-Rauxel) by DSW21 and SB24 (Mengede - Waltrop- Datteln - Oer-Erkenschwick - Recklinghausen Central Station) and 289 (Mengede - Waltrop) by Vestische Straßenbahnen.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Dortmund-Mengede station operations . NRW Rail Archive . André Joost . 13 December 2013 . German.
  2. Web site: Linie 470 . Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG . 5 November 2019 . 25 February 2018.
  3. Web site: Denkmalbehörde der Stadt Dortmund . Denkmalliste des Stadtbezirks Mengede . PDF: 44.7 KB . dortmund.de – Das Dortmunder Stadtportal . 27 October 2008 . 19 September 2011 . German . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120402093022/http://denkmalbehoerde.dortmund.de/upload/binarydata_do4ud4cms/44/71/17/00/00/00/177144/mengede_2008.pdf . 2 April 2012 .
  4. Web site: Dortmund-Mengede station . NRW Rail Archive . André Joost . 13 December 2013 . German.
  5. Web site: VRR rapid-transit plan 2013 . PDF . VRR . 13 December 2013 . German.