Kettwig Stausee station

Kettwig Stausee
Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn
Hp
Other names Kettwig-Pusch
Location Kettwig, Essen, NRW
Germany
Coordinates 51°21′23″N 6°56′20″E / 51.356495°N 6.938885°E / 51.356495; 6.938885
Line(s)
Platforms 2
Other information
Station code 3167
DS100 codeEKGS
Category6[1]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened 28 May 1945[2]
Key dates
1968/1974 S-Bahn service started

Kettwig Stausee is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany on the Ruhr Valley line. It serves the southern part of the Kettwig borough, Kettwig vor der Brücke, and is situated right next to the river Ruhr.

History

The station was opened in 1945 as Kettwig-Pusch after the German army had destroyed the Ruhr bridges in Kettwig during the last days of World War II. It was used to connect the railway lines to Mülheim an der Ruhr, Düsseldorf and Velbert with each other. After a single Ruhr bridge was rebuilt, the station was renamed Kettwig Stausee in 1953. In 1960, services to Velbert and in 1968 services to Mülheim ended. The station building was torn down in 1981, and the station was downgraded to a mere S-Bahn stop.

The station today sees regular service by Rhein-Ruhr S-Bahn trains on the S6 line.[3]

Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
toward Köln-Nippes
S 6
toward Essen Hbf

Notes

  1. ↑ "Stationspreisliste 2016" [Station price list 2017] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 18 November 2016. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
  2. ↑ "Kettwig Stausee station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 October 2011.
  3. ↑ "Kettwig Stausee station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 October 2011.


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