Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof

Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the former city of Wanne-Eickel, now part of Herne in western Germany.

Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof
Through station
The station building
LocationHeinz-Rühmann-Platz 1, Herne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates51°31′53″N 7°9′57″E
Owned byDeutsche Bahn
Operated by
Line(s)
Platforms8
Train operatorsAbellio Rail NRW
DB Regio NRW
eurobahn
NordWestBahn
ConnectionsTrams in Bochum/Gelsenkirchen: 306
Other information
Station code6533[1]
DS100 codeEWAN[2]
IBNR8000192
Category3[1]
Fare zoneVRR: 272[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened
  • 1856 (freight yard)
  • 1864 (passenger station)
Services
Preceding station   DB Fernverkehr   Following station
towards Stuttgart
ICE 47
via Frankfurt (Main) Airport - Düsseldorf
ICE 914/915 only
towards Münster
towards Klagenfurt
IC/EC 32
EC 115 only
towards Münster
towards Cologne
IC/EC 35
towards Emden
Preceding station   Abellio Rail NRW   Following station
toward Duisburg Hbf
RB 32
Rhein-Emscher-Bahn
toward Dortmund Hbf
Terminus
RB 46
Glückauf-Bahn
toward Bochum Hbf
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
RE 2
Rhein-Haard-Express
RE 42
Niers-Haard-Express
Preceding station   eurobahn   Following station
RE 3
Rhein-Emscher-Express
toward Hamm Hbf
Preceding station   NordWestBahn   Following station
Gelsenkirchen-Zoo
toward Dorsten
RB 43
Emschertal-Bahn
toward Dortmund Hbf
Preceding station   Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn   Following station
toward Essen Hbf
S 2
toward Dortmund Hbf
Location
Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof
Location in North Rhine-Westphalia
Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof
Location in Germany
Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof
Location in Europe

History

The station grew out of the Pluto-Thies freight yard, opened in 1856 on the Duisburg–Dortmund line section of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company's trunk line, which was opened in 1847. In 1864, a halt was opened there for passengers. In 1867 a new freight yard was opened, which was initially called Pluto, but changed to Wanne (literally “basin”, a description of the landscape) in 1869, because the surrounding villages could not agree on a name for the yard. The station's name was reflected in 1875 when the villages of Eickel, Bicker, Crange, Holsterhausen and Röhlinghausen were merged under the name of Amt Wanne.[4]

With the opening of the line to Münster on 1 January 1870, Wanne station became a railway junction. In 1913 the station building and the track work were rebuilt and extended.

After the formation of the city of Wanne-Eickel in 1926, the station was renamed Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof. It became the largest marshalling yard in the central Ruhr area and the only station in the Ruhr that included all four forms of rail operations: in addition to its role as a marshalling yard, it was the home depot for over 300 locomotives along with associated rolling stock, a freight yard and a passenger station.

Current operations

Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof is a station of major traffic importance as a crossroads on the east-west Dortmund–Duisburg line and the north-south Münster–Essen line, which among other things, is the beginning of the Rollbahn (rolling railway) to Hamburg. In addition, the station is located on the Emscher Valley Railway (Dortmund–Wanne-Eickel–Dorsten) and the Bochum–Gelsenkirchen Railway (also known as the Glückauf-Bahn— a reference to Glück auf, the traditional German miners greeting). Part of the old marshalling yard still operates with shunting from west to east over a hump, but other freight operations are closed.

Following the merger of the cities of Herne and Wanne-Eickel in 1975 the name of the station remained as Wanne–Eickel Hauptbahnhof, although it is the largest station in the city of Herne on its current boundaries. In 2003, Deutsche Bahn planned to rename it Herne-Wanne or Herne Hauptbahnhof. However, these plans met with considerable resistance in the Wanne area, as well as from local politicians in Herne.

Lines

Long-distance

Wanne-Eickel is served by one InterCity service:

LineRouteFrequency
ICE 47 MünsterRecklinghausenWanne-EickelGelsenkirchenEssenKölnFrankfurt AirportMannheimStuttgart One a day
IC 35 Norddeich MoleLeer (Ostfriesl) – Münster (Westf) – Recklinghausen – Wanne-EickelGelsenkirchenOberhausenDuisburgDüsseldorfCologne (– BonnKoblenz) Every 2 hours
EC 115 Münster (Westf) – Recklinghausen – Wanne-Eickel – Oberhausen – Düsseldorf – Köln – Mainz – Mannheim – Stuttgart – AugsburgMunichPrien am ChiemseeFreilassingSalzburgKlagenfurt One a day

Regional

Wanne-Eickel is served by the two Regional-Express and three Regionalbahn lines, as well as the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.

LineLine nameRoute
RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express MönchengladbachKrefeldDuisburgEssenWanne-EickelGelsenkirchenRecklinghausenMünster (Westf)
RE 3 Rhein-Emscher-Express Düsseldorf – Duisburg – OberhausenWanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – HerneDortmundHamm
RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express MönchengladbachKrefeld – Essen – Wanne-Eickel – Gelsenkirchen – Recklinghausen – Haltern – Münster (Westf)
RB 32 Rhein-Emscher-Bahn Duisburg – Essen-Altenessen – Gelsenkirchen – Wanne-EickelCastrop-Rauxel – Dortmund
RB 43 Emschertal-Bahn DorstenWanne-Eickel – Herne – Dortmund
RB 46 Glückauf-Bahn Gelsenkirchen – Wanne-EickelBochum
S 2 Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Essen – Gelsenkirchen – Wanne-Eickel – Herne – Dortmund

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] (in German) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Liniennetzplan/Wabenplan" (PDF). Bochum-Gelsenkirchener Straßenbahnen AG. April 2013. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  4. "Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof (EWAN) operations". NRW rail archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
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