Ibbenbüren-Esch station

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The station Ibbenbüren- Esch (until December 12, 2004 Esch ( Westphalia ) ) is a railway station in the district Ibbenbürener Puesselbueren on the railway wages - Rheine. In freight transport, the station continues to bear the name Esch ( Westphalia). Special significance of this last freight station in the urban area of the city Ibbenbüren in the freight industry and the port Uffeln.

History

The Esch station ( Westphalia ) was taken as the breakpoint on 1 August 1889 in operation. Reason for the name Esch ( Westphalia ) was the fact that the station name " Puesselbueren " through the station Puesselbueren who served the freight office of the Püsselbürener conveyor tunnel, but also goods near factories such as the coking plant, Kösters Glashütte or quarries, was not available. Even today, there are at this location, the tracks of the later coal washery West field.

The name comes from the Apken Esch Esch, a peasantry of today Puesselbueren in which the station is located. Puesselbueren at that time was even still a peasantry Ibbenbüren and not as now a district of the city. When the Puesselbueren station was abandoned by the railroad failed renaming of the station Esch on money which was demanded by the railway.

A strong freight growth brought the opening of the Zechenbahn 1928 Oeyenhausenschacht on the Sheep Mountain above Ibbenbüren. In this connection brought especially the cooperative and a wooden shoe factory and a light railway connecting the sandstones of Dick Berger quarries goods sales.

A great misfortune to New Year's Eve 1944 occurred when a freight train loaded with ammunition, which was parked in the station, was set on fire by low-flying aircraft. Camouflaged under straw also V-1 rockets should have been on the train. Another disaster happened in 1948, when the brakes of a steam locomotive Zechenbahn failed and numerous loaded with coal freight cars derailed and overturned.

In 1962, a new highlight of freight transport was reached when the connecting track was built to Ibbenbürener port in Uffeln. In 1972, the old signal box was replaced by a new push button interlocking directly at the railroad crossing.

Traffic today

Passenger

Passenger traffic is now handled via two platforms. He is next to the train stations and Ibbenbüren Ibbenbüren- Laggenbeck one of the three active passenger stations in the urban area Ibbenbüren. At the station the RE 60 " Ems - Leash Express " from Rheine to Braunschweig every two hours, as well as the RB 61 " Wiehengebirgs train " of Bad Bentheim - hold to Bielefeld every hour.

The circulating in the past 62 RB " The Cherusker " from Rheine to Paderborn is not offered at this time.

Freight traffic

The freight station Esch is now the last remaining in the urban area of the city Ibbenbüren. Here especially coal of the mine Ibbenbüren is handled. Several tracks of the freight depot in possession of the mine, which has made ​​a few kilometers long Zechenbahn to the mine from the train station. Often high on the mountain sheep to observe the special high mountain locomotives of carriage which passed the coal trains either the Deutsche Bahn, or further transport to the port in Uffeln here due to the steep route.

The siding to the port supplies, among other things, the port with bulk commodities such as gravel, but also the chemical factory Wibarco of raw materials. The work of Akzo Nobel and Wibarco also carries some of their products over the rail again.

The freight cars are picked up from the train station and mounted on the Osnabrück Main Station to trains.

Currently, about 2 million Euro value of goods are transshipped in the month at Esch station.

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