Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof

Through station

Entrance of station

General information
Location| Dieter aus dem Siepen Platz 3, Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates| 51°25′53″N 06°53′11″E﻿ / ﻿51.43139°N 6.88639°E﻿ / 51.43139; 6.88639Coordinates: 51°25′53″N 06°53′11″E﻿ / ﻿51.43139°N 6.88639°E﻿ / 51.43139; 6.88639
Owned by| Deutsche Bahn
Operated by|

* DB Netz
* DB Station&Service

Line(s)|

* Dortmund–Duisburg Railway
(KBS 415, 425, 427, 450.1, 450.3)
* Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Lines S 1, S 3
(KBS 450.1, 450.3)

Platforms| 4
Connections| S 1 S 3
Other information
Station code| 4219 [1]
DS100 code| EMLR [2]
Category| 3 [1]
Fare zone| VRR: 340, 342, and 344[3]
Website| www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened| 1 September 1866 [4]

Services

| Preceding station  |  | DB Fernverkehr |  | Following station

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|
|
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Duisburg

towards Cologne

| | IC 55| |

Essen

towards Cologne

Preceding station  | National Express Germany | Following station

|
|

Duisburg Hbf

towards Aachen Hbf

|  |

RE 1

|  | Essen Hbf

towards Hamm (Westf) Hbf

Duisburg Hbf

towards Cologne/Bonn Airport

|  |

RE 6

|  | Essen Hbf

towards Minden (Westfalen)

Duisburg Hbf

towards Düsseldorf Hbf

|  |

RE 11

|  | Essen Hbf

towards Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe

Preceding station  | DB Regio NRW | Following station
Duisburg Hbf

towards Düsseldorf Hbf

|  |

RE 2

|  | Essen Hbf

towards Osnabrück Hbf

Duisburg Hbf

towards Mönchengladbach Hbf

|  |

RE 42

|  | Essen Hbf

towards Münster Hbf

Mülheim-Styrum

towards Wesel

|  |

RE 49

|  | Essen West

towards Wuppertal Hbf

Mülheim-Styrum

towards Aachen Hbf

|  |

RB 33

|  | Essen Hbf

Terminus

Preceding station  | Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn | Following station
Mülheim-Styrum

towards Solingen Hbf

|  | S1 |  | Essen-Frohnhausen

towards Dortmund Hbf

Mülheim West

towards Oberhausen Hbf

|  | S3 |  | Essen-Frohnhausen

towards Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte

Preceding station  | Rhine-Ruhr Stadtbahn | Following station
Terminus |  | U18 |  | Von-Bock-Straße

towards Berliner Platz

Preceding station  | Trams in Mülheim/Oberhausen | Following station
Mülheim Stadtmitte

towards Uhlenhorst

|  | 102 |  | Aktienstraße

towards Oberdümpten

Preceding station  | Trams in Duisburg | Following station
Mülheim Stadtmitte

towards Obermarxloh Schleife

|  | 901 |  | Terminus
Location

Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof

Location in North Rhine-Westphalia

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Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof is a railway station for the city of Mülheim in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was renamed as a Hauptbahnhof in 1974 at the time of the rebuilding of the Dortmund–Duisburg line as part of the establishment of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 3 station.[1]

The original station is unusual in that it was built as two adjoining stations by the two main private railways buildings lines in the Ruhr area, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) and the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn Gesellschaft, BME).

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Current situation
* 2.1 Long-distance
* 2.2 Regional services
* 2.3 Public transport
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## History[edit]

The station was opened as Mülheim RhE as part of a section of the RhE's mainline through the Ruhr opened on 1 September 1866 between Osterath and Essen. Just to the north of the RhE's station, the BME opened its own station in 1867 as Mülheim-Eppinghofen BME on its own main line opened in 1862 between Dortmund and Duisburg.[4] Although the two railways were nationalised in 1880 and 1882 the two stations were not linked.

On 1 June 1888, the station was renamed Mülheim (Ruhr), but on 11 August 1892 it was again renamed as Mülheim-Eppinghofen because another station (now called Mülheim (Ruhr) West) was then renamed as Mülheim (Ruhr),[5] but it was never popularly accepted as the main station in Mülheim. Between 1905 and 1910 a common station with a peaked roof was built to serve both lines, but it was destroyed during World War II and never rebuilt. During the electrification of the Cologne-Hamm line in the 1950s the stopping place for long-distance trains was moved back to the Eppinghofen station and on 22 May 1955 it was renamed Mülheim (Ruhr) Stadt ("city"). In 1974 the station was relocated with the opening of Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn and finally renamed Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf.

## Current situation[edit]

The current station consists of four tracks to the east and west located on the site of the BME station. The RhE lines have been closed and dismantled.

The following services currently call at Mülheim Hauptbahnhof:[6][7]

### Long-distance[edit]

A total of 11 long-distance trains per day stop at the station.

Line  | Route  | Train no

|
|

ICE 31 | Cologne – Duisburg – Mülheim – Dortmund – Münster – Bremen – Hamburg-Altona | ICE 1028
IC 30 | Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz | IC
IC 31 | Hamburg-Altona – Bremen – Münster – Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Frankfurt | IC 2020
EC 32 | Münster – Gelsenkirchen – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Lindau \- Innsbruck | IC 119
IC 32 | Berlin – Hannover – Hamm – Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne  | IC 1911
IC 1916
Berlin – Hannover – Hamm – Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Mönchengladbach – Aachen | IC 2222
IC 2223
IC 55 | Leipzig – Halle – Magdeburg – Braunschweig – Hannover – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Mülheim – Duisburg – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz – Mainz – Mannheim – Heidelberg – Stuttgart – Ulm – Oberstdorf | IC 2013
Ulm – Stuttgart – Heidelberg – Mannheim – Mainz – Koblenz – Bonn – Cologne – Duisburg – Mülheim – Dortmund – Hamm – Hannover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg  | IC 2012

### Regional services[edit]

In local passenger service, Mülheim is served by several regional and S-Bahn lines:

Line  | Route  | Frequency

|
|

RE 1
NRW-Express | Aachen – Eschweiler – Düren – Horrem – Cologne – Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Bochum – Dortmund – Hamm | 60 min
RE 2
Rhein-Haard-Express | Düsseldorf – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Gelsenkirchen – Recklinghausen – Münster | 60 min
RE 6
Rhein-Weser-Express | Minden – Herford – Bielefeld – Hamm – Dortmund – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Airport – Düsseldorf – Neuss – Cologne – Cologne/Bonn Airport | 60 min
RE 11
Rhein-Hellweg-Express | Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Mülheim – Essen – Dortmund – Hamm – Paderborn – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe | 60 min
RE 42
Niers-Haard-Express | Münster – Haltern am See – Recklinghausen – Gelsenkirchen – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Krefeld – Viersen – Mönchengladbach | 60 min
RE 49
Wupper-Lippe-Express | Wesel – Oberhausen – Mülheim –Essen – Wuppertal-Vohwinkel – Wuppertal | 60 mins
RB 33
Rhein-Niers-Bahn | Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Krefeld – Mönchengladbach – Aachen | 60 mins
S 1 | Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Flughafen – Düsseldorf – Hilden – Solingen | 30 min
S 3 | Oberhausen – Mülheim – Essen – Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte | 30 min

### Public transport[edit]

Mülheim U-Bahn station under the main station, 2005

An underground station for line U18 of the Essen Stadtbahn, line 102 of Mülheim/Oberhausen trams and line 901 of Duisburg trams lies adjacent to the former RhE station and is connected to the current station by a corridor.

In addition, the station is served by several bus lines.

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c "Stationspreisliste 2022" [Station price list 2022] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 7 February 2022. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
2. ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. ^ "Wabenplan für das Rheinbahn-Bedienungsgebiet" (PDF). Rheinbahn. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
4. ^ a b "Mülheim (Ruhr) Hauptbahnhof operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
5. ^ "Mülheim (Ruhr) West area operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
6. ^ "Mülheim Hauptbahnhof". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
7. ^ "VRR rapid-transit plan 2013" (PDF) (in German). VRR. Retrieved 1 January 2014.

## External links[edit]

* Ansichtskarten – Mülheim und die Eisenbahn (in German). Eisenbahnfreunde Mülheim e. V. 1990.
* Martin Menke (2008). "Der Mülheimer Hauptbahnhof im Wandel der Zeit". In Geschichtsverein Mülheim an der Ruhr (ed.). Zeugen der Stadtgeschichte – Baudenkmäler und historische Orte in Mülheim an der Ruhr (in German). Essen: Klartext Verlag. pp. 139–145.

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