Solingen Mitte station
Railway station in Solingen, Germany
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Solingen Mitte station is in the city of Solingen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway. The line through the site of Solingen Mitte station was opened on 2 December 1890 as part of the Solingen–Wuppertal-Vohwinkel line, known as the Korkenzieherbahn ("Corkscrew Railway"), to Vohwinkel.[5] The station was opened on 10 December 2006.[4] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]
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| Location | Solingen, NRW Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°09′58″N 7°05′22″E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | DB Netz | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | DB Station&Service | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Train operators | RheinRuhrBahn | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 5414[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | KSM | ||||||||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8005598 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 5[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 10 December 2006[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The station is served by line S 7 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn, branded as Der Müngstener, operated every 20 minutes from Monday to Friday and generally every half hour on weekends and at off-peak times, using (LINT 41) vehicles.[6][7] Until 15 December 2013 the station was served by Regional-Express service RB 47, operated by DB Regio NRW, normally with two-carriage sets of class 628.4. The Abellio Deutschland company won a contract that was put to tender in November 2010 and took over the operation of passenger services on the route from December 2013 for a period of 15 years.[8][9]
Since December of 2022, the Station is also served hourly by regional service RE 47 between Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof and Remscheid-Lennep, operated by Regiobahn.
