Essen-Frohnhausen station

Essen-Frohnhausen station is situated in Essen in western Germany. It is served by lines S1 and S3 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.

Essen-Frohnhausen
Through station
Entrance to Essen-Fronhausen as seen from Onckenstraße in 2006
General information
Location	Onckenstraße 61, Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°27′18″N 6°57′55″E
Line(s)	Witten/Dortmund–Oberhausen/Duisburg railway
Platforms	2
Train operators	DB Regio NRW
Connections	S1 S3
Other information
Station code	1701[1]
DS100 code	EEFO[2]
IBNR	8001906
Category	4[1]
Fare zone	VRR: 350[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	26 May 1974 [4]
Services
Preceding station Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn Following station Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf towards Solingen Hbf S1 Essen West towards Dortmund Hbf Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf towards Oberhausen Hbf S3 Essen West towards Hattingen (Ruhr) Mitte
Location Essen-Frohnhausen Location within North Rhine-Westphalia

History

The Essen-Frohnhausen S-Bahn station was built with the introduction of the two S-Bahn lines on 26 May 1974.^[4] It was on the S1 line, initially running between Bochum and Duisburg-Großenbaum, and the S3, running between Oberhausen and Hattingen.

The southern platform track then, as now, serves trains towards Essen and the northern platform track serves trains towards Duisburg and Oberhausen.

Between them is double track without access to platforms, which forms part of the line to Essen-Borbeck, used by the Regional-Express service RE14 (Der Borkener), and S-Bahn line S9, which replaced the regional service N9, which ran until 1998.

Current situation

The station is exclusively used by lines S1 and S3 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn (timetable routes 450.1 and 450.3).

It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 4 station.^[1] The two platforms are both accessible from the east and from the west. To the north of the station there is a station parking area.

Transport services

Currently, the station is served by line S 1 and S 3 of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn.^[5]

Line	Route	Frequency
S1	Dortmund – Bochum – Essen – Essen-Frohnhausen – Mülheim (Ruhr) – Duisburg – Düsseldorf Flughafen – Düsseldorf – Hilden – Solingen	20 min
S3	Hattingen – Bochum-Dahlhausen – Essen – Essen-Frohnhausen – Oberhausen	20 min

References

1. "Stationspreisliste 2025" [Station price list 2025] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 28 November 2024. Retrieved 5 December 2024.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Wabenplan Essen" (PDF). Ruhrbahn. November 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 October 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
4. "Essen-Frohnhausen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
5. "Essen-Frohnhausen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 10 December 2013.