Dülmen station

Dülmen station is one of two operating tower stations (of six that formerly operated) in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in Dülmen in western Münsterland. It is at the crossing of the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg and the Dortmund–Enschede railways.

Dülmen
Crossing station
Location	Bahnhofstr. 50, Dülmen, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°49′38″N 7°17′41″E
Line(s)	Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg (KBS 425) Dortmund–Enschede (KBS 412)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	1390[1]
DS100 code	EDUL (low level) EDULH (high level)[2]
IBNR	8000083
Category	4[1]
Fare zone	Westfalentarif: 55521[3]
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1 January 1870 [4]
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station Sythen toward Düsseldorf Hbf RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express Buldern toward Osnabrück Hbf Sythen toward Mönchengladbach Hbf RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express Preceding station   DB Regio Westfalen   Following station Lette (Kr Coesfeld) toward Enschede RB 51 Westmünsterland-Bahn Lüdinghausen toward Dortmund Hbf

History

The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, CME) received a concession on 28 May 1866 to build a railway from Wanne to Osnabrück. This would be part of the inter-regional Hamburg–Venlo railway, which in turn would be part of an international Paris–Hamburg railway. On 1 January 1870, the CME started passenger operations on the first section between Wanne station (now Wanne-Eickel Central Station (Hauptbahnhof)) on its trunk line and Münster station (now Münster (Westfalen) Hauptbahnhof) and it opened the first Dülmen station at the same time.[4]

Germany and the Netherlands agreed on 13 November 1874 to establish a direct rail link between Enschede and Dortmund. The Dortmund-Gronau-Enschede Railway Company (Dortmund-Gronau-Enscheder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, DGE) was established for this purpose and the first section was opened to Lünen station (now Lünen Nord) already on 25 November 1874. Dülmen DGE station was opened half a kilometre northwest of the Cologne-Minden station on 15 June 1875 and a grade-separated crossing was created during the building of the next section of the DGE to Dülmen.[5] On 1 August 1875, the line was extended to the Coesfeld (Westf) station. After the nationalisation of the (nominally) private railway companies and their absorption by the Prussian state railways, Dülmen DGE station was renamed Dülmen Ost (east) station,[5] although it was just west of the Cologne-Minden station.

With the construction of a curve north of the station between the two previously independent lines connecting the lines towards Coesfeld and Münster, the station became a junction station in practice. In the 1950s, passengers operations were moved from Dülmen Ost station to a high-level platform built at Dülmen station, so that Dülmen station was now a “tower” station (Turmbahnhof, that is a station with superimposed platforms on two levels).[6] The connecting curve was closed and dismantled in the 1990s.

East of the station there was formerly a connecting curve connecting the lines towards Münster and Lünen. This was destroyed in the Second World War and was never rebuilt; the rest of the track is still used as a siding. Neither connecting curves were used for passenger services.

The station building that was opened on 20 May 1964 is located on the corner of the intersection that is north of the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg line and west of the Dortmund–Enschede line. The station building built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company was demolished in 1977.

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  Signal box controlling both routes
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  Lower platform
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  Upper platform

Train services

The station is served by the following services:[7][8]

• Local service RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Recklinghausen - Dülmen - Münster
• Local service RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express Münster – Haltern am See – Recklinghausen – Gelsenkirchen – Essen – Mülheim – Duisburg – Krefeld – Viersen – Mönchengladbach
• Local service RB 51 Westmünsterland-Bahn Enschede - Gronau - Coesfeld - Dülmen - Lünen - Dortmund

Notes

1. "Stationspreisliste 2020" [Station price list 2020] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 4 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
3. "Fahrtauskunft". Westfalentarif. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
4. "Dülmen station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
5. "Dülmen Ost station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
6. Dietmar Rabich. "Die Eisenbahn in Dülmen". Dülmener Heimatblätter (in German).(special edition: 1311–2011, 700 years of the town of Dülmen)
7. Timetables for Dülmen station (in German)
8. "Dülmen station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. 29 July 2013.

External links

• "Dülmen high-level station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 29 July 2013.