Essen Zollverein Nord station
Essen Zollverein Nord | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Platform of Essen Zollverein Nord in 2010 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Essen, NRW Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°29′37″N 07°02′49″E / 51.49361°N 7.04694°E | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Deutsche Bahn | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 1706 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | EEKB | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Category | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | VRR: 354 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1887 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Essen Zollverein Nord is a railway station situated in close proximity to the Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex on the Duisburg–Dortmund railway situated in Essen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 6 station. It was originally named Zollverein, renamed Caternberg in 1897, Caternberg Süd between 1897 and 1905, Katernberg Süd between 1905 and 1912, Essen-Katernberg Süd in 1949 and Essen-Zollverein Nord on 13 December 2009. A station building was built in 1897, but was demolished between 1960 and 1990.
It is served by Regionalbahn lines RB32 (Rhein-Emscher-Bahn) and RB35 (Emscher-Niederrhein-Bahn), Essen tramway 107 (Gelsenkirchen Hbf + Hbf – Bredeney) and by bus routes 170 (Schonnebeck – Kray – Steele + Altenessen - Borbeck) and 183 (Katernberger Markt + Altenessen – Karlsplatz) operated by Ruhrbahn.