Kaarst IKEA station is a Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn station in the town of Kaarst in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It was opened as Holzbüttgen between 1954 and 1957 on the remaining part of the Neuss–Viersen railway, which was opened by the Rhenish Railway Company on 15 November 1877.[5] It was reopened as IKEA Kaarst (after the nearby IKEA store) on 26 September 1999 and given its current name on 16 June 2002.[4]
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| Location | Kaarst, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°13′00″N 6°37′47″E / 51.2168°N 6.6298°E | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Station code | n/a | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | KKAI[1] | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000438 | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1954/57 \[4] | ||||||||||
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The station is served by Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn line S 28 at 20-minute intervals[6][7]
The station is served by one taxibus service, 861 (Holzbüttgen/Sandfeld – Neusser Str), operated by Busverkehr Rheinland at 60-minute intervals.[6]
After the IKEA store moved its location in 2017, the station was not renamed, but started to offer a shuttle bus service to the new IKEA store.[8][9]
References
edit- ^ Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
- ^ "Wabenplan für das Rheinbahn-Bedienungsgebiet" (PDF). Rheinbahn. 1 August 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ "Ticketberater". Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Sieg. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ a b Joost, André. "Kaarst IKEA station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- ^ Joost, André. "Line 2530, Neuss - Neersen". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- ^ a b Joost, André. "Kaarst IKEA station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). Retrieved 18 June 2020.
- ^ "VRR rapid-transit plan 2013" (PDF) (in German). VRR. Retrieved 17 December 2013.
- ^ Boisserée, Clemens (2017-10-10). "Kosten, Anreise und Angebot: Das müssen Sie vor der Ikea-Neueröffnung in Kaarst wissen". Rheinische Post (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-09.
- ^ "IKEA Fahrplan Busshuttle" (PDF). Regiobahn (in German). 2020-10-08. Retrieved 2023-07-09.
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