Lengerich railway station (Westphalia)
| Lengerich (Westf) | |
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 Platform on platform 1 with ticket machine
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| Design | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 3 |
| abbreviation | ELEN |
| IBNR | 8003640 |
| Price range | 5 |
| opening | 1871 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Lengerich__Westf_ |
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| City / municipality | Lengerich (Westphalia) |
| country | North Rhine-Westphalia |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 10 '32 " N , 7 ° 52' 41" E |
| Height (SO) | 79 m above sea level NHN |
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| Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia | |
The Lengerich (Westphalia) Station is the last still operating train station in Lengerich (Westfalen) after the stations Lengerich City Station , Lengerich passenger station and Lengerich-Hohne of the Teutoburg Forest Railway were abandoned (TWE). It belongs to station category 5 and is now mainly used for commuter traffic to the larger cities of Osnabrück and Münster . It has been served by the regional train line RB 66 since 2007 , which has been operated by the Eurobahn since 2018 .
Train traffic and railway facilities
There are three platform tracks. The station has extensive freight and shunting tracks, as freight trains are occasionally dispatched from the adjacent cement works and there is a transition option to the Teutoburg Forest Railway (TWE). Other freight traffic is very rare today. From December 15, 2019, there will also be a connection to the Ruhr area with the Rhein-Haard Express
| line | course | Tact |
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| RE 2 |
Rhein-Haard-Express : Osnabrück Hbf - Hasbergen - Natrup-Hagen (two-part) - Lengerich (Westf) - Kattenvenne (two-part) - Ostbevern - Westbevern - Münster (Westf) central station - Dülmen - Haltern am See - Recklinghausen main station - Wanne -Eickel Hbf - Gelsenkirchen Hbf - Essen Hbf - Mülheim (Ruhr) Hbf - Duisburg Hbf - Düsseldorf Airport - Düsseldorf Hbf Status: timetable change December 2019 |
60 min |
| RB 66 |
Teuto-Bahn : Osnabrück Hbf - Hasbergen - Natrup-Hagen - Lengerich (Westf) - Kattenvenne - Ostbevern - Westbevern - Münster (Westf) Hbf Status: timetable change December 2015 |
60 min |
Environment and buildings
The reception building is designed in the style of the 1960s. In it there is a Travel Center of Deutsche Bahn . On the opposite side of the street is the former station building of the TWE passenger station "Lengerich-Hohne Pbf" , which now houses a shisha bar.
A railway photographers and Train spotters popular pedestrian bridge to reach even the TWE- located near the depot from where the Förderverein railway tradition the Teuto-Express - museum train traffic operates.
history
During the construction of the Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway line near Lengerich, the geographic conditions were most favorable for crossing the Teutoburg Forest low mountain range with a tunnel . Therefore, on September 1, 1871, the city was connected to the Hamburg-Venloer Bahn of the Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (CME). The first station building was erected north of the tracks between 1869 and 1871. With the nationalization of the CME in 1879, the station was transferred to the Prussian State Railways (KPEV), which in connection with the double-track expansion from 1880–1882 built another station building south of the railway facilities at the current location. In 1901 the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn (TWE) opened the Lengerich passenger station on the opposite side of Bahnhofstrasse .
During the Second World War, the station was the target of an Allied air raid on March 13, 1945, in which 48 people were killed. A parked train loaded with fuel, together with the bombs dropped, led to severe destruction. The axles and wheels of the train were thrown several hundred meters into the area of the neighboring Dyckerhoff factory, which also destroyed the first CME reception building. In 1962, the new building that still exists today replaces the KPEV's second reception building.
The first lime works was built in Lengerich in 1872 . Cement has been produced there since 1890 . The local Dyckerhoff AG ensured a brisk cargo turnover. In the 1950s and 1960s, the station was an important transfer point for freight traffic between the German Federal Railroad (DB) and the TWE.
literature
- Detlev Höhn: At the bend in the runway. Railways in Lengerich. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Article in DGEG magazine Eisenbahn-Geschichte No. 30, pp. 4–10. ISSN 1611-6283
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small question for a written answer according to § 46 Abs. 1 GO LT with answer from the state government (page 4). Retrieved December 10, 2019 . (PDF, 280 kB)