Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt train station

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Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt
Entrance building of the train station (still with the original name Burgsteinfurt)
Entrance building of the train station
(still with the original name Burgsteinfurt)
Data
Location in the network former crossing station
Platform tracks 2
abbreviation EBFT
IBNR 8000062
Price range 6th
opening September 30, 1875
Profile on Bahnhof.de Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt
location
City / municipality Steinfurt
country North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
Coordinates 52 ° 8 '52 "  N , 7 ° 19' 47"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '52 "  N , 7 ° 19' 47"  E
Height ( SO ) 68  m
Railway lines
Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
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The Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt train station is a train station in the town of Steinfurt in the western Münsterland in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is located in the Burgsteinfurt district .

The station is a former crossing station on the Münster – Enschede railway line . The Coesfeld – Rheine and Borken – Burgsteinfurt railway lines have been closed and largely dismantled.

history

In 1870 the Münster-Enscheder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (MEE) received the concession to build a railway line from Münster to Enschede and construction began. When it became insolvent in 1874, the Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (KWE) took over the construction of the line to Enschede. Together with the line, a through station was opened on September 30, 1875 under the name Burgsteinfurt Station.

The Wanne-Eickel-Hamburg railway of the Cologne-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft was of great national importance, while the Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (RhE) planned its Duisburg – Quakenbrück railway as a competitor. With the completion of this line on July 1, 1879, the Burgsteinfurt train station became a crossing station . The Rhenish route crossed the KWE route south of Burgsteinfurt.

Finally, the railway line from Borken of the Westphalian State Railroad (WLE) reached Burgsteinfurt on October 1, 1902.

As a result of the Second World War , operations came to a standstill on several sections. The Rheine station was completely destroyed by an air raid on October 5, 1944 in Oberhausen and Dorsten bridges were blown up. Cross-border traffic to Enschede was discontinued from 1940 to 1951, and also later between 1981 and 2001.

On the Westphalian line to Borken , after only 60 years, passenger traffic was initially severely restricted on September 30, 1962 (only express trains), and then completely stopped on September 27, 1975. Freight traffic between Burgsteinfurt and Ahaus had already been stopped on December 31, 1972; after the final closure of the line on March 31, 1988, immediate dismantling began.

After passenger traffic on the Duisburg – Quakenbrück railway in the northern section from Rheine and in the southern section to Dorsten had already come to a standstill in the 1960s, service on the section between Coesfeld and Rheine was also terminated on September 28, 1984. On July 1, 1985, this section was converted into a secondary railway line .

In the mid-1980s, freight traffic between Horstmar and St. Arnold was also discontinued. The line between Lutum and St. Arnold was officially closed on January 1, 1996, so that the former crossing station became a through station again . In the same year, freight handling at the station was closed on May 1st.

As a result of the regional reform in North Rhine-Westphalia , the formerly independent cities of Burgsteinfurt and Borghorst were merged to form the city of Steinfurt on January 1, 1975. But it was not until the timetable change on December 12, 2004 that the station was renamed Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt station.

On September 30, 2005, the dismantling of the Rhenish line between Burgsteinfurt and St. Arnold began. Two of the four former signal boxes have already been demolished, on the one hand the signal box Bn on the Rhenish route and the signal box Bmf that was located on the former central platform. The two signal boxes on the Ensched line (the signal box Bf south and the signal box Bw north of the station) are still standing, but are out of order. Since October 26, 2008, the station has been remotely controlled by the electronic central interlocking in Coesfeld (Westf) station .

service

In rail transport is Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt Station by a regional train line operated:

line Line course Tact operator
RB 64 Euregio-Bahn :
Enschede  - Enschede De Eschmarke - Glanerbrug  - Gronau (Westf)  - Ochtrup  - Metelen Land  - Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt  - Steinfurt-Grottenkamp  - Steinfurt-Borghorst  - Nordwalde  - Altenberge  - Münster-Häger  - Münster Center North  - Münster (Westf) Main station
Status: timetable change December 2015 		60 min DB Regio NRW
  1. ↑ Increased cycle times Mon-Fri partially to 30 minutes (Münster-Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt, in the load direction further to Gronau (Westf))

The regional train was set up on May 24, 1998 on the section between Münster and Gronau. Since November 18, 2001, it has continued to Enschede. In 2011 the DB Regio NRW won the tender for another 15 years.

Web links

Commons : Train stations in Steinfurt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Deutsche Bahn AG:

NRWbahnarchiv by André Joost:

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DB AG station category list 2016: [1] , PDF 0.33 MB, accessed on February 26, 2016