Velbert-Neviges station is located in the city of

Velbert Velbert (, Low Rhenish: ''Vèlbed'') is a town in the district of Mettmann (district), Mettmann, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The town is renowned worldwide for the production of locks and fittings. Geography Velbert is located ...

in the German state of

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. It is on the Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr line.

History

The original station was opened north of the centre of the then independent municipality of Neviges together with the

Wuppertal-Vohwinkel–Essen-Überruhr railway The Wuppertal-Vohwinkel-Essen Überruhr Railway is a long, continuous two-track electrified main line. It is known as the ''Prince William Railway'', the first railway linking the valleys of the Wupper and the Ruhr. The first line on the route w ...

on 1 December 1847 by the

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(''Prinz-Wilhelm-Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'') at line-kilometre 12.8. Since Neviges was incorporated into Velbert in 1975, the name of the station was changed from ''Neviges'' to ''Velbert-Neviges'' in December 2003. It was also moved a few hundred metres to the vicinity of the Neviges market (''Nevigeser Markt'') in 2003, so that it would have a better connection to bus transport. The original station is still preserved. The former platform canopy was demolished by

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in March 2019 and the former station building is now used as a restaurant. In operational terms, the new station is considered a ''Haltepunkt'' (stopping point), as it has no sets of points.

Location and operations

The station is on the

at km 12.5, while the old station was at km 12.8. It is served by the RE49

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service, known as the

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, every 60 minutes, and S-Bahn line S 9, every 30 minutes. S 9 :

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Essen Essen () is the central and, after Dortmund, second-largest city of the Ruhr, the largest urban area in Germany. Its population of makes it the fourth-largest city of North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne, Düsseldorf and Dortmund, as well as ...

- Velbert -

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The scheduled travel time from ''Velbert-Neviges'' station is about 23 minutes (RE 49) or 27 minutes (S 9) to

Essen Hauptbahnhof Essen Hauptbahnhof (German for "Essen main station") is a railway station in the city of Essen in western Germany. It is situated south of the old town centre, next to the A 40 motorway. It was opened in 1862 by the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenba ...

and 15 minutes (RE 49) or 21 minutes (S 9) to

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. The station is located at Neviges market, while the former Velbert-Neviges station was near the Mariendom (church). There is a

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facility. Behind this, there is the ''Neviges Markt/Bf'' bus stop, which is served by three regional bus routes as well as the Neviges Tönisheide municipal bus routes. The bus lines connect Neviges station with Velbert-Zentrum, Neviges-Siepen, Velbert-Langenberg, Velbert-Leberhof as well as

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and Wuppertal-

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References

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