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The redevelopment of the railway as a four-track line was completed in 1914. This was accompanied by a major redesign of the station area, including the replacement of the roundhouse by a rectangular building. Also, the old station building was replaced in 1913 by the current stately building. The
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for companies in the media industry, but these plans were dropped in 2006. On 29 July 1991, the station building was heritage-listed as a monument. It was extensively renovated in 2007 and fitted with a redesigned roof. In addition an extensive organic supermarket now occupies the building.
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and was one of the first railways in western
Germany. In order to avoid a steep climb, the line ended before Döppers Berg (hill), about one kilometre from the centre of the town of Elberfeld (now central Wuppertal). Originally a little station building was built at the railhead.
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Steinbeck station lost ground against the more centrally located Elberfeld station, which was only a kilometre away, and many of the inter-regional train services no longer stopped there. The construction of the
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was built from
Dortmund, which originally ended on the other side of the Döppers Berg. On 28 December 1848, a line was opened connecting the two lines together, making a continuous connection in the valley of the
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Between 1860 and 1870 a station building was built. At the same time an extensive area was developed for rail freight, including a marshalling yard, loading tracks and a locomotive depot with a
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The darkest chapter in the history of the station occurred towards the end of the Nazi period: the deportation of over 1,000 Jewish citizens of
Wuppertal via Eastern European ghettos to Nazi
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