Düsseldorf-Rath train station

Düsseldorf-Rath
Central platform of the Düsseldorf-Rath train station
Data
Location in the network	Crossing station
Platform tracks	2
abbreviation	KDR
IBNR	8001592
Price range	5
opening	1874
location
City / municipality	Dusseldorf
country	North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
Coordinates	51 ° 15 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 16 ″  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 51 ″  N , 6 ° 49 ′ 16 ″  E
Railway lines
Ruhr Valley Railway (2400) Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf (2324)
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia

The Düsseldorf-Rath train station is located about 8 kilometers northeast of Düsseldorf Central Station in the Rath district of Düsseldorf . It is located on the Ruhr Valley Railway and the Troisdorf – Mülheim-Speldorf railway line and is classified in station category 5 by DB Station & Service .

The Düsseldorf-Rath train station is also the stop for a light rail line, a tram line and two bus lines.

Location and facilities

One of the numerous daily freight trains

View of the freight tracks

The train station is in the northeast of the Rath district of Düsseldorf , west of Oberrather Straße.

The station had two side platforms with access from Westfalenstrasse. In the course of increasing the platforms from 76 to 96 centimeters in summer 2012, one of these side platforms was abandoned and the other converted into a central platform with barrier-free access from the underpass.

The station building from 1874 is no longer there. In the 1950s, a simple one-story building was built that is now used privately.

The freight tracks at Düsseldorf-Rath station are used to provide freight trains with tubes from the neighboring Vallourec works . Construction trains are also often parked here.

service

The station is not served by long- distance passenger rail services. In the local rail passenger traffic today (2020) only one line of the S-Bahn Rhein-Ruhr stops . Until 1983 there was also passenger traffic between Duisburg and Düsseldorf-Rath.

For this purpose, the train station in local public transport is approached by one line each of the Düsseldorf Stadtbahn and Düsseldorf tram and a bus line.

line	course	Tact
S 6	Essen Hbf - Essen South - E-Stadtwald - E-Hügel - E-Werden - Kettwig - Kettwig Reservoir - Hösel - Ratingen Ost - D-Rath - D-Rath Mitte -   D-Derendorf - D-Zoo - D-Wehrhahn - Düsseldorf Main station - D-Volksgarten - D-Oberbilk - D-Eller Süd - D-Reisholz  - D-Benrath -   D-Garath - D-Hellerhof - Langenfeld-Berghausen - Langenfeld (Rhineland) - Lev.-Rheindorf - Lev.-Küppersteg - Leverkusen Mitte - Lev.- Chempark - K-Stammheim - K-Mülheim - K-Buchforst - K-Messe / Deutz - Köln Hbf - K-Hansaring - K-Nippes (- K-Geldernstraße / Parkgürtel - K-Longerich - K- Volkhovener Weg - U  K-Chorweiler - U  K-Chorweiler Nord - K-Blumenberg - K-Worringen ) Nippes – Worringen only during peak hours Status: timetable change December 2019	20 min
U 71	D-Rath - Rotdornstraße - D-Rath Mitte -   Am Schein - Haeselerstraße - Heinrichstraße  - Hansaplatz - Grunerstraße - Brehmplatz - Schillerplatz - Uhlandstraße - D-Wehrhahn - U  Pempelforter Straße - U  Schadowstraße - U  Heinrich-Heine-Allee - U  Benrather Straße - U  Graf-Adolf-Platz - U  Kirchplatz  - D-Bilk -   Karolingerplatz - Auf'm Hennekamp - Uni-Kliniken - Universität Nord / Christophstraße - Südpark - Werstener Dorfstraße - Opladener Straße - Ickerswarder Straße - Elbruchstraße - Holthausen  - Niederheid - Am Trippelsberg - Nice view - Kappeler Straße - Benrath Palace - Urdenbacher Allee - D-Benrath -   D-Benrath , depot Low-floor operation of the Rheinbahn ; The Rath - Heinrichstrasse section does not belong to the Düsseldorf night network ; Operation only Mon – Fri 6 am–8pm, Sat 9 am–8pm and 1pm – 8pm; Different frequency: Sun 1 p.m. - 8 p.m. every 15 minutes	20 min
701	D - Rath , DOME / Am Hülserhof 1  - ISS Dome  - Wahlerstr./ JVA  - D-Rath  2  - D-Rath Mitte  - Mörsenbroich , Heinrichstraße 3  - Derendorf  - Derendorf , Rather Straße / HSD University  - Pempelfort , Dreieck 4  - Venloer Str - Nordstraße  - Pempelfort, Sternstraße - Stadtmitte , Schadowstraße  - Steinstraße  - Stadtmitte, Berliner Allee 5  - Friedrichstadt , Corneliusstraße - Morsestraße - Bilk , Karolingerplatz  6  - Kopernikusstraße → Am Steinberg ← Moorenstraße  ← Merowingerplatz ← Bilk, Merowingerstraße 7 Mon-Sat daytime: section 1–3 every 20 min, section 3–7 every 10 min; Sun afternoons: Sections 1–3 every 30 minutes, Sections 3–7 every 15 minutes; in the evening every 20 minutes; further stops only in sections 2–4 and 5–6, but all transfer stops are listed.	20 min

Another light rail line does not serve the Rath S-Bahn station directly, but stops about 400 meters east of the station at the Rather Waldstadion stop . Before the Wehrhahn line went into operation, tram line 712 ran here.

line	course	Tact
U 72	Ratingen Mitte - Weststraße - Europaring - Gerhardstraße - Ratingen, Felderhof - D-Hubertushain - Hirschweg - Oberrath - Rather Waldstadion ( D-Rath  , 400 m) - Rather Broich  - Mörsenbroicher Weg  - Graf-Recke-Straße - Vautierstraße - Schlüterstraße / Employment Agency - Engerstraße - Lindemannstraße - Uhlandstraße - D-Wehrhahn - U  Pempelforter Straße - U  Schadowstraße - U  Heinrich-Heine-Allee - U  Benrather Straße - U  Graf-Adolf-Platz - U  Kirchplatz  - D-Bilk -   Suitbertusstraße - Südring - Flehe , Aachener Platz - Volmerswerther Straße - Krahkampweg - D-Volmerswerth , Hellriegelstraße Low-floor operation of the Rheinbahn ; Line belongs to the Düsseldorf night network ; Different frequency: Sun 1–8 p.m. every 15 minutes, Mon – Fri 9–11 p.m., Sat – Sun 8–11 p.m., Sat 6–9 a.m. and Sun 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. every 20 min, Sat – Sun 0–4 a.m. and Sun 5–9 a.m. every 30 minutes	10 min

With the completion of the tram route from Rath S-Bahn station to the ISS Dome, the U 71 light rail line will complement the 701 tram line, both of which will then begin and end at the ISS Dome.

See also

• List of train stations in Düsseldorf

Web links

Deutsche Bahn:

• Tracks in service facilities (KDR) , DB Netz AG (PDF; 1.33 MiB; as of January 1, 2018)

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

• Description of the KDR operations center
• Description of the "Düsseldorf-Rath" access point

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Ratingen East		S 6 Ruhr Valley Railway		Düsseldorf-Rath center