Opladen station
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 35, Opladen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°03′57″N 7°00′31″E / 51.065714°N 7.008542°E | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 4770 | |||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | KOPL[1] | |||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000853 | |||||||||||||||
| Category | 4 [2] | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | VRS: 2200[3] | |||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 August 1867[4] | |||||||||||||||
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Opladen station is in the suburb of Opladen of the city of Leverkusen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is on the Gruiten–Köln-Deutz railway, which was opened on 25 September 1867 from Ohligs by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME). It was extended to Mülheim BME station on 8 April 1868.[5] The station was also opened on 25 August 1867. The original station building was demolished in 1965 and replaced by a building built in 1968. This building has been demolished in 2016.[4] It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.[2]
The station is served hourly by Regional-Express line RE 7 Rhein-Münsterland-Express between Krefeld and Münster via Cologne and Hamm. It is also served every 30 minutes between 5am to 8pm by Regionalbahn RB 48 Rhein-Wupper-Bahn, stopping at all stations between Wuppertal-Oberbarmen and Cologne, continuing every hour to Bonn-Mehlem.[6]
It is served by seven bus routes, operated by Kraftverkehr Wupper-Sieg: 201 (at 20 minute intervals), 202 (20), 203 (60), 222 (20), 223 (60), 231 (20) and 239 (20). It is also served by two routes operated by Wiedenhoff: 250 (60) and 255 (20) and by two routes operated by Hüttebräucker: 251 (5 trips) and 253 (at 30 minute intervals).[6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ a b "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
- ^ "VRS-Gemeinschaftstarif" (PDF) (in German). Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. 20 April 2020. p. 203. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Opladen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
- ^ "Line 2730: Gruiten - Neurather Ring". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Archived from the original on 5 November 2010. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
- ^ a b "Opladen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 24 October 2011.
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