Lüdenscheid station

Lüdenscheid station is the terminus of a single-track branch line from Lüdenscheid-Brügge to Lüdenscheid in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It branches in Brügge from the Hagen–Dieringhausen railway. It is classified by DB Station&Service as a category 6 station.[1]

Lüdenscheid
Terminus
Former station building (demolished in 2009)
LocationBahnhofstraße 26, Lüdenscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates51°13′14″N 7°37′44″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms1
Other information
Station code3828[1]
DS100 codeELS[2]
IBNR8003782
Category6[1]
Fare zoneWestfalentarif: 48511[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened6 September 1874 [4]
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
RB 25
Oberbergische Bahn		Terminus
toward Dortmund Hbf
RB 52
Volmetalbahn
Location
Lüdenscheid
Location in North Rhine-Westphalia
Lüdenscheid
Location in Germany
Lüdenscheid
Location in Europe

The station is on the edge of the centre of the district town of Lüdenscheid. The only platform extends up to Bahnhofstrasse (station street) and is at ground level. Central Lüdenscheid is easily accessible within a few minutes. Around the station the Lüdenscheid suburb of Grünewald also extends to the north and west and Knapp extends to the south.

History
New Lüdenscheid station (June 2009)

The railway line between Lüdenscheid-Brügge station and Lüdenscheid station opened in 1880 by the Prussian state railways. Five years later, the metre-gauge Altena District Railway (Kreis Altenaer Eisenbahn, KAE) was opened, which had its station near the state station. Even today, there is a narrow road in Lüdenscheid that follows the route of the Altena District Railway from the current Altenaer Straße to the Lüdenscheid station of the KAE. Lüdenscheid had 20,000 inhabitants in 1894 and, according to archive reports, it was the most industrialised city in Germany in 1895. Thus, traffic at Lüdenscheid station had been increasing rapidly and has been further enhanced by freight traffic fed by the KAE.[5][6]

In 1963, a concept of the urban management of Lüdenscheid was presented in which the current Sauerfelder Straße would be rebuilt on 2 levels and the Brügge–Lüdenscheid railway would be placed underground running from Lüdenscheid station at a grade of only one percent. The railway line would then have terminated at a second underground station in the central transport hub of Sauerfeld in central Lüdenscheid. In addition, 500 parking spaces would have been built below the square in front of the current town hall. At the time this project was considered to be a utopian idea, but it was rejected.[7]

The formerly important station building of Lüdenscheid station, which had been built in 1960, was demolished in 2009. Located in this building there was a ticket office, a restaurant and a waiting room. In place of the old station building a four-storey building has been built with a driving school, a newsagent, a taxi company, a bakery and toilets. This will offer rail passengers an attractive waiting room.[8][9] On 27 July 2012, a report appeared in the Lüdenscheider Nachrichten that a new building will be completed in 2013 with a DB service centre, waiting room and toilets for passengers. In addition, there will be apartments for students at the local university and commercial space such as for medical services.[10]

Station area

On the precincts of the former station are now located the Lüdenscheid tax office and a wood trading company. In addition, a new campus of the Fachhochschule Südwestfalen (University of Applied Sciences of South Westphalia) for up to 600 students was built by February 2012.[11] In addition, some service companies have relocated on the site.

The adjacent Bahnhofallee has been recently connected via the street of Zum Weißen Pferd to Altenaer Straße and can be used by both cars and buses. In addition, a walkway now connects Bahnhofallee to the upper end of Zum Weißen Pferd. Until then, Bahnhofallee had been a dead end for vehicles and pedestrian and could only be reached from the station area.

Rail services

The station is served by two Regionalbahn lines:[12]

Line Route Frequency
RB 52 Volmetal-Bahn Lüdenscheid – Lüdenscheid-Brügge – Schalksmühle – Hagen – Dortmund Hourly
RB 25 Oberbergische Bahn Köln Hansaring – Köln Hbf – Köln Messe/Deutz – Köln Trimbornstraße – Köln Frankfurter Straße – Rösrath-Stümpen – Rösrath – Hoffnungsthal – Honrath – Overath – Engelskirchen – Ründeroth – Gummersbach-Dieringhausen – Gummersbach – Marienheide – Meinerzhagen – Kierspe – Halver-Oberbrügge – Lüdenscheid-Brügge – Lüdenscheid hourly/bihourly

Bus services

Bus services are operated the Märkische Verkehrsgesellschaft (Märkische Transport Company, MVG) and Busverkehr Ruhr-Sieg (Ruhr-Sieg Bus Transport, BRS) on several routes. Since the timetable change in August 2010, the station has been the second central bus station (ZOB) in Lüdenscheid) with Lüdenscheid Sauerfeld. The station consists of five bus bays, 4 of which connect directly with the platform, and is served by 18 bus routes:[12]

Line Route Frequency (mins)

(Mon–Fri)

 Frequency (mins)

(Sat)

 Frequency (mins)

(Sun)

S1 Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Iserlohn) –

Altena, Bahnhof – Nachrodt, Amtshaus – Iserlohn, Stadtbahnhof – Iserlohn, Konrad-Adenauer-Ring central bus station

 30 / 60 No services No services
S2 Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Worth –

Werdohl station – Plettenberg, Ohle Post – Plettenberg, Bahnhof – Plettenberg, Grünestraße central bus station

 30 / 60 60 60
41 Lüdenscheid, Schubertstraße – Lüdenscheid station (runs in both directions) –

Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Worth – Lüdenscheid, Eichholz

15 / 30 15 / 30 30
42 Lüdenscheid, Noell – Lüdenscheid station (runs in both directions) –

Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Niederschemm Wendestelle

 30 / 60 30 / 60 60
43 Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Worth – Lüdenscheid, Am Flachsacker

 120 120 No services
44 Lüdenscheid, Freisenberg – Lüdenscheid station (runs in both directions) –

Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Europa-Allee

 30 / 60 30 / 60 60
46 Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus –

Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Nattenberg – Lüdenscheid, Im Hasley – Lüdenscheid, Baukloh

 60 60 120
47 Lüdenscheid, Eichholz – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Halver) – Lüdenscheid, Brügge Bahnhof – Halver, Ostendorf

 30 / 60 30 / 60 60
49 Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Iserlohn) – Nachrodt, Amtshaus – Iserlohn, Lasbeck

Irregular services Irregular services No services
51 Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Am Brutenberg

 30 /

(bus route 54)

 30 /

(bus route 54)

 No services /

(bus route 54)

54 Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Herscheid, Markt – Herscheid, Hüinghausen – Plettenberg, Grünestraße central bus station

 30 / 60 30 / 60 60
87 Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Schalksmühle) – Schalksmühle, Reeswinkel

30 / 60 60 60
134 Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Radevormwald) – Radevormwald bus station

 30 / 60 60 60
246 Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Lüdenscheid, Im Hasley – Lüdenscheid, Nattenberg –

Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Lüdenscheid, Hs. Schöneck) – Lüdenscheid, Haus Schöneck

 Irregular services No services No services
252 Lüdenscheid station (terminus) – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid, Kulturhaus – Meinerzhagen, Valbert Ort – Meinerzhagen, Stadthalle central bus station (excursion bus route)

 No services No services 120
254 Plettenberg, Grünestraße central bus station – Herscheid, Hüinghausen – Herscheid, Markt – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Lüdenscheid, Wehberg) – Lüdenscheid, Wehberg Wendestelle

 Irregular services No services No services
N4 Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station – Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Schalksmühle) –

Schalksmühle, Rathausplatz – Schalksmühle, Mitte – Schalksmühle, Strücken (night bus route)

 1 service on Fri

at about 0:12 AM

 1 service on Sat

at about 0:12 AM

 No services
N7 Plettenberg station – Herscheid, Hüinghausen – Herscheid, Markt – Lüdenscheid, Sauerfeld central bus station –

Lüdenscheid station (runs only towards Christuskirche) - Lüdenscheid, Christuskirche (night bus route)

 1 service on Fri

at about 1:58 AM

 1 service on Sat

at about 1:58 AM

 No services

Notes
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Fahrtauskunft". Westfalentarif. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. "Lüdenscheid station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  5. "Daten zur Geschichte der Stadt Lüdenscheid" (in German). City of luedenscheid. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  6. "Lüdenscheid - Mit der KAE kam Anschluss an die Welt". Westfälischen Rundschau (in German). 12 July 2007. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  7. "Utopische Vorstellung". Lüdenscheider Nachrichten (in German). 30 March 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  8. "Stadt führt Gespräche - Doch ein Bahnhof mit Warteraum und Läden". Westfälischen Rundschau (in German). 4 September 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  9. "Technik bald überflüssig - Bahnhof zum Abriss frei". Westfälischen Rundschau (in German). 16 April 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  10. "Neuer Bahnhof wieder in Sicht". Lüdenscheider Nachrichten (in German). 27 July 2012.
  11. "Fachhochschulgebäude für bis zu 600 Studenten". Lüdenscheider Nachrichten (in German). 12 May 2011. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
  12. "Brügge (Westf) station".
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