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General information | |||||||||||||||||||||
Location | Brüninghausstraße 13, Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 51°23′17″N 7°26′03″E / 51.388071°N 7.434135°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
Owned by | DB Netz | ||||||||||||||||||||
Operated by | DB Station&Service | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Train operators | DB Regio NRW | ||||||||||||||||||||
Connections | S5 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Station code | 2463[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
DS100 code | EHGV[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||
IBNR | 8000977 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Category | 6[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Fare zone | VRR: 588[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 9 March 1849[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.[4]