Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof

Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof
Station entrance
Operations
Category	3
Type	Through station
Platforms in use	4
DS100 code	EMLR
Construction and location
Opened	1862
Location	Mülheim an der Ruhr
State	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
51°25′53″N 06°53′11″E / 51.43139°N 6.88639°E / 51.43139; 6.88639
Route information
Dortmund–Duisburg Railway (KBS 415, 425, 427, 450.1, 450.3) Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Lines S 1, S 3 (KBS 450.1, 450.3)
List of railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof (usually translated from German as Mülheim (Ruhr) Central Station, short form: Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf) is the Hauptbahnhof for the city of Mülheim in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was renamed as a Hauptbahnhof in 1974 at the time of the rebuilding of the Dortmund–Duisburg line as part of the establishment of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.

The original station is unusual in that it was built as two adjoining stations by the two main private railways buildings lines in the Ruhr area, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, BME).

History

The station was opened as Mülheim RhE as part of a section of the RhE's mainline through the Ruhr opened on 1 September 1866 between Osterath and Essen. Just to the north of the RhE's station, the BME opened its own station in 1867 as Mülheim-Eppinghofen BME on its own mainline line opened in 1862 between Dortmund and Duisburg. Although the two railways were nationalised in 1880 and 1882 the two stations were not linked.

On 1 June 1888, the station was renamed Mülheim (Ruhr), but on 11 August 1892 it was again renamed as Mülheim-Eppinghofen because another station (now called Mülheim (Ruhr) West) was then renamed as Mülheim (Ruhr), but it was never popularly accepted as the main station in Mülheim. Between 1905 and 1910 a common station with a peaked roof was built to serve both lines, but it was destroyed during World War II and never rebuilt. During the electrification of the Cologne-Hamm line in the 1950s the stopping place for long-distance trains was moved back to the Eppinghofen station and on 22 May 1955 it was renamed Mülheim (Ruhr) Stadt ("city"). In 1974 the station was relocated with the opening of Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and finally renamed Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf.

Current situation

The current station has four platforms and four lines to the east and west located on the site of the BME station. The RhE lines have been closed and dismantled. An underground station of line U18 of the Essen Stadtbahn lies under the mainline station.

Preceding station		DB AG		Following station
Duisburg Hbf toward Aachen Hbf		RE 1 NRW-Express		Essen Hbf toward Paderborn Hbf
Duisburg Hbf toward Düsseldorf Hbf		RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express		Essen Hbf toward Münster Hbf
Duisburg Hbf toward Düsseldorf Hbf		RE 6 Westfalen-Express		Essen Hbf toward Minden
Duisburg Hbf toward Mönchengladbach Hbf		RE 11 Rhein-Hellweg-Express		Essen Hbf toward Hamm
Preceding station		Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn		Following station
Mülheim-Styrum toward Solingen Hbf		S1		Essen-Frohnhausen toward Dortmund Hbf
Mülheim West toward Oberhausen Hbf		S3		Essen-Frohnhausen toward Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte

See also

• Railway station layout

References

• (in German) Ansichtskarten – Mülheim und die Eisenbahn. Eisenbahnfreunde Mülheim e. V.. 1990. 
• Martin Menke (2008). "Der Mülheimer Hauptbahnhof im Wandel der Zeit". In Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (in German). Zeugen der Stadtgeschichte – Baudenkmäler und historische Orte in Mülheim an der Ruhr. Klartext Verlag. pp. 139–145. 

External links

• "Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/bf/8000259.htm. Retrieved 12 September 2011. 
• "Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf area operations" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/esn/EMLR.htm. Retrieved 12 September 2011. 
• "Mülheim (Ruhr) West" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/bf/8004122.htm. Retrieved 12 September 2011. 
• "Mülheim (Ruhr) West area operations" (in German). NRW Rail Archive. André Joost. http://nrwbahnarchiv.bplaced.net/esn/EMRW.htm. Retrieved 12 September 2011.