Büttgen station is a railway station in the town of Büttgen, a part of Kaarst in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The station was opened on 8 January 1868.[5] It lies on the Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway line, one of the oldest in Germany that was originally constructed by the Aachen-Düsseldorf-Ruhrort Railway Company.[6] Büttgen station has two tracks and two platforms and is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 5 station.[1]
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| Location | Driescher Birkhofstraße 1 Kaarst, Rhein-Kreis Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°11′49″N 6°36′18″E / 51.197°N 6.605°E | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | Mönchengladbach–Düsseldorf railway (KBS 450.8) | ||||||||||
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| Station code | 1011[1] | ||||||||||
| DS100 code | KBUT[2] | ||||||||||
| IBNR | 8001261 | ||||||||||
| Category | 5[1] | ||||||||||
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| Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 8 January 1868 [5] | ||||||||||
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The station is served by the S 8 line of the Rhine-Ruhr S-Bahn network, running between Mönchengladbach and Wuppertal-Oberbarmen or Hagen every 20 minutes at weekday core times.[7]