Solingen Hauptbahnhof
Through station
General information
Location	Bahnstr. 5, Solingen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°09′41.5″N 7°00′15″E / 51.161528°N 7.00417°E / 51.161528; 7.00417
Line(s)	Wuppertal–Köln-Deutz (KBS 455) Solingen–Wuppertal (KBS 458) Solingen–Düsseldorf (KBS 450.1)
Platforms	5
Other information
Station code	5882
DS100 code	KSO
Category	2
Fare zone	VRR: 746[1] VRS: 1740 (VRR transitional tariff)[2]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	25 September 1867
Previous names	Ohligs-Wald
Passengers
20,000
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Wuppertal Hbf towards Dortmund Hbf ICE 42 Köln Hbf towards München Hbf ICE 91 Köln Hbf towards Wien Hbf Wuppertal Hbf towards Dresden Hbf IC 55 Köln Hbf towards Stuttgart Hbf or Tübingen Hbf Preceding station National Express Germany Following station Wuppertal Hbf towards Rheine RE 7 (Rhein-Münsterland-Express) Opladen towards Krefeld Hbf Haan towards Wuppertal-Oberbarmen RB 48 (Rhein-Wupper-Bahn) Leichlingen towards Bonn-Mehlem Preceding station Regiobahn Following station Solingen-Grünewald towards Remscheid-Lennep RE 47 Hilden towards Düsseldorf Hbf Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station Solingen Vogelpark towards Dortmund Hbf S1 Terminus Solingen Grünewald towards Wuppertal Hbf S7

Solingen Hauptbahnhof is the only railway station in Solingen, Germany, to be served by ICE and IC long distance trains. Solingen-Mitte station serves central Solingen, but only has Regionalbahn trains.

History

The first station in the area of present-day town of Solingen was built with the opening of the Gruiten-Cologne-Mülheim railway by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company.^[3] The station opened on 25 September 1867 and was named Ohligs Wald ("Ohligs forest").^[4] That same year a branch line to Solingen was built from this station.^[5] In 1890, the Wald part of the name was dropped and with the incorporation of Ohligs into Solingen in 1929, the station was renamed Solingen-Ohligs.^[4] In 1894, the line from Hilden was opened.^[6]

The importance of the Solingen-Ohligs station always exceeded that of the other stations in Solingen, including the old Solingen Hauptbahnhof, since only Ohligs station is located on a main line. Consequently, it was the stopping point for long-distance traffic. This factor lead to the discussion of renaming this station to Hauptbahnhof and giving the Hauptbahnhof a new name. These discussions, however, never came to a conclusion, so the station kept its name until the end of 2006. With the decommissioning of the old Hauptbahnhof in May 2006, Solingen-Ohligs station was renamed as Solingen Hauptbahnhof on 10 December 2006.^[4]

Notes

External links

• "Solingen Hbf track plan" (PDF; 176.9 KB) (in German). Deutsche Bahn. Retrieved 2 October 2011.
• "Solingen Hbf". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 2 October 2011.