Remscheid-Lüttringhausen station

Remscheid-Lüttringhausen station is a station on the Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway in Lüttringhausen in the German state of North Rhine Westphalia. It is served by line S 7 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.LocationThe station is located in the northern Lüttringhausen, which until 1929 was a separate town in the former Lennep district, but is now a borough of the Bergisches Land city of Remscheid in North Rhine-Westphalia. The still existing, but no longer publicly accessible, station building is set back a little to the east and a few metres above the Barmer Straße and is connected by steps.HistoryThe station was built in 1868 by the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company (BME) on the originally single-track Wuppertal-Oberbarmen–Solingen railway. This initially ran only from Rittershausen (now Oberbarmen) via Ronsdorf, Lüttringhausen and Lennep to Remscheid (and later continued to Hasten).Lüttringhausen station was opened on 1 September 1868. The station building dates back to the early days of this line.Description and current situationThe historic station building has a facade of ashlar with plaster painted beige. It has two storeys and an attic with a gabled roof and dormers, which are located both above the entrance on the street side and on the opposite side over the former access to the platform. The first floor is now partially covered with artificial slate. On the ground floor there was, among other things, the entrance, the waiting room, a restaurant and a bay window housing the train dispatcher's switchboard and an office. The building is no longer used for rail operations and is instead used for private purposes; it gives the impression of being neglected. It is not a listed building. The station formerly had a roofed platform next to the station building (platform 1) and a narrow one-sided platform next to track 2, which was reached by a pedestrian crossing over the track from platform 1, which was protected only by the train dispatcher.