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Schwelm West station

1988 establishments in West GermanyEnnepe-Ruhr-KreisNorth Rhine-Westphalia railway station stubsRailway stations in Germany opened in 1988Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn stations
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Bahnhof Schwelm West
Bahnhof Schwelm West

Schwelm West station is a through station in the town of Schwelm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 29 May 1988 on a section of the Elberfeld–Dortmund railway from Döppersberg, near the current Wuppertal Hauptbahnhof, to Schwelm that was opened by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company on 9 October 1847. It has two platform tracks and it is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station.The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 8 between Mönchengladbach and Hagen and line S 9 between Recklinghausen and Hagen, both every 60 minutes.

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Schwelm West station
Jesinghauser Straße,

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Jesinghauser Straße
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North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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