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Hagen-Vorhalle station

1849 establishments in PrussiaBuildings and structures in HagenRailway stations in Germany opened in 1849Railway stations in North Rhine-WestphaliaRhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations
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Hagen-Vorhalle station is a large marshalling yard of national importance and a small passenger station for local services in the Hagen district of Vorhalle in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened in its present form in 1910 in and is one of the nine major marshalling yards in Germany and a key element of the 200X program to upgrade Germany's freight infrastructure initiated in 2006 by the former Railion Deutschland AG (now DB Schenker Rail). The station is located on the Ruhr Valley Railway and the Elberfeld–Dortmund line. The station was opened on the 9 March 1849 as Herdecke station and successively renamed as Herdecke Süd, Herdecke-Vorhalle and Vorhalle. It was renamed as Hagen-Vorhalle in the early 1950s.

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Hagen-Vorhalle station
Brüninghausstraße, Hagen Vorhalle (Hagen-Nord)

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58089 Hagen, Vorhalle (Hagen-Nord)
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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