Essen-Eiberg station
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Line(s)Dortmund–Duisburg (KBS 450.1)
Platforms2
Essen Eiberg  | |||||||||||
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| Location | Sachsenring 1, Essen, NRW Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°26′30″N 7°06′35″E / 51.441672°N 7.109746°E | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Dortmund–Duisburg (KBS 450.1) | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 1700[1] | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | EEIB[2] | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8001905 | ||||||||||
| Category | 5[1] | ||||||||||
| Fare zone | VRR: 356[3] | ||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1968/69[4] | ||||||||||
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Essen-Eiberg station is a station in the district of Eiberg of the city of Essen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway.
The name of the station refers to the former municipality of Eiberg, which extended over the western parts of modern Bochum and the eastern parts of the Essen suburbs of Freisenbruch and Horst. At the end of the 1960s the station was established[4] lies in the southeastern part of Freisenbruch on the Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway, which is part of the main east–west trunk line of the Ruhr, opened in this area in 1874.
