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Bahnhof Gevelsberg Knapp
Bahnhof Gevelsberg Knapp

Gevelsberg-Knapp station is a through station in the town of Gevelsberg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station was opened on 1 June 1980 on a section of the Düsseldorf-Derendorf–Dortmund Süd railway, opened by the Rhenish Railway Company (German: Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) between Wuppertal-Wichlinghausen and Hagen RhE station (now Hagen-Eckesey depot) on 15 September 1879. 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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Burbecker Straße
58285 , Berge
North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Haspe–Voerde–Breckerfeld Light Railway
Haspe–Voerde–Breckerfeld Light Railway

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