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Solingen Hauptbahnhof is the only railway station in Solingen, Germany, to be served by ICE and IC long distance 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]

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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.