Solingen Mitte | |
Native Name Lang: | de |
Symbol: | s |
Symbol Location: | rhine-ruhr |
Type: | Through station |
Borough: | Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia |
Country: | Germany |
Coordinates: | 51.1661°N 7.0894°W |
Owned: | DB Netz |
Operator: | DB Station&Service |
Platforms: | 1 island platform |
Tracks: | 2 |
Train Operators: | Abellio Rail NRW |
Zone: | |
Opened: | 10 December 2006[3] |
Website: | www.bahnhof.de |
Map Type: | North Rhine-Westphalia |
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.[4] The station was opened on 10 December 2006. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.
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.[5] [6] 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.[7] [8]
Since December of 2022, the Station is also served hourly by regional service RE 47 between Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof and Remscheid-Lennep, operated by Regiobahn.