Bad Bentheim railway station

  • Railway line Almelo salt mountains
  • Route Gronau - Coevorden

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The Bad Bentheim railway station is a railway station in Bad Bentheim, Lower Saxony. It lies on the railway line Almelo salt mountains, there is also a transition to route Gronau - Coevorden of Bentheim railroad.

Since the acquisition in the 1950s decommissioning of the station Guildhall he is the last station of the German rail network before crossing the border to the Netherlands. Therefore, until the opening of the EU's internal borders by the second Schengen he also served as the customs clearance of cross-border trains.

Since the line was electrified throughout in 1976, meet at this station, the Dutch (1500 V DC) and the German (15 kV, 16.7 Hz ~ ) traction power system together. For this reason, the upper line on the station tracks between the two systems is switchable. In Bad Bentheim thus must in trains, which are covered with electric locomotives without the possibility of system change, effected a change of locomotive, the German and Dutch locomotive can range in contrast to other system change stations each under its own power to or from the train.

In the German domestic traffic Bad Bentheim is the starting station of the Wiehengebirgs -Bahn (RB 61) Rheine, Osnabrück and Herford to Bielefeld.

In long-distance transport services, Intercity line 77 cross-border Amsterdam Centraal and Amersfoort via Bad Bentheim in Osnabrück, Hannover and Berlin.

At the station along the route of the railroad from Bentheim Achterberg (until 1981 of Gronau ) about Nordhorn and New House to Coevorden in the Netherlands leads. Near the railway station is also the former administration building of this railway company.

From December 2010 to December 2013, the Bentheim Railway AG operated in cooperation with the Dutch transport companies Syntus part of a pilot project, a regional train line (referred to as Grensland Express) between Bad Bentheim and Hengelo Oldenzaal. The adjustment was made due to lack of demand for the project phase.

Train services

  • In the two- hour IC 77 Amsterdam - Amersfoort - Hengelo - Bad Bentheim - Osnabrück - Hannover - Berlin
  • Every hour, RB 61 " Wiehengebirgs -Bahn " Bad Bentheim - Rheine - Osnabrück - Herford - Bielefeld ( Westphalia railway operator )
German railway station categories Interchange station Rheine station Herford station Amersfoort railway station Gronau, North Rhine-Westphalia Hengelo railway station
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