Hagen-Vorhalle station
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Hagen Vorhalle  | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Brüninghausstraße 13, Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°23′17″N 7°26′03″E / 51.388071°N 7.434135°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | DB Netz | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | DB Station&Service | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | DB Regio NRW | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Connections | S5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 2463[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | EHGV[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000977 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 6[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | VRR: 588[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 9 March 1849[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Hagen-Vorhalle station is a large marshalling yard of national importance and a small passenger station for local services in the Hagen district of Vorhalle in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened in its present form in 1910 in and is one of the nine major marshalling yards in Germany and a key element of the 200X program to upgrade Germany's freight infrastructure initiated in 2006 by the former Railion Deutschland AG (now DB Schenker Rail). The station is located on the Ruhr Valley Railway and the Elberfeld–Dortmund line. The station was opened on the 9 March 1849 as Herdecke station and successively renamed as Herdecke Süd, Herdecke-Vorhalle and Vorhalle. It was renamed as Hagen-Vorhalle in the early 1950s.[4]
The yard has eleven arrival tracks, two hump tracks and 40 classification tracks up to 920 m long. The freight wagons or sets of wagons are run over the hump and then retarded by a series of automatic retarders and finally pushed together for coupling. The wagons are then coupled together with their brake hoses and the brakes are tested by a remote-controlled brake test system. The entire marshalling operation is automatically controlled by a central electronic interlocking. Intervention by the signallers is only required if there is a fault.
The Hagen-Vorhalle yard was modernised between 2004 and 2006 by DB Netz (a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn). The fully automated system was commissioned in January 2007. The modernisation significantly reduced staff numbers at the yard.