Ibbenbüren station

• Railway wages - Rheine ( KBS 375 )
• Railway line to Gutersloh

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The Ibbenbüren railway station is the main railway station of the Teutoburg Forest railway with the railway wages - Rheine. In the past he was also an important transshipment point. The Ibbenbüren station is classified as a light rail system stop in the train station category 4.

Location

The Ibbenbüren train station is a few meters north-east of downtown Ibbenbüren. Directly to the north joined in the past, the Nike power plant Ibbenbüren to which is home to a transformer station of RWE today.

He is one of three active stations next to Esch and Laggenbeck in the city Ibbenbüren. Shortly after the junction of the Teutoburg Forest Railway is the railway station used exclusively for steam locomotive rides the Teutobahn Ibbenbüren Aa. In front of the station, there is Ibbenbüren of the few places in the area are driven by bus to the bus station.

Building

The building is a building in concrete chic of the 1970s. The old station building had to make way for the rebuilding of the city. The old station building of 1856 looked something like this as the station building still standing in Lingen. The new building, the tracks can be reached through a tunnel underground.

Tracks

The Ibbenbüren station has three tracks. Track 1 is operated in the direction of Osnabrück, track 2 in the direction Rheine. Track 3 is the Teutoburger Wald-Eisenbahn reserved after she was abandoned in 1964 its own railway station Ibbenbüren East. The platforms do not have elevators or other aids. Track 1 can be easily reached via an access road.

Cargo handling

The freight station Ibbenbüren is shut down since 2 January 2002. The freight trains of the Teutoburg Forest Railway are currently being implemented directly. The Erzschmalspurstrecke siding made ​​in the past with the coal washing Ibbenbüren and numerous other envelopes for an active volume of goods. The coal handling the coal washing ended with the commissioning of the mine railway from the mine to the Ibbenbüren Esch station. The Ibbenbürener adit with the coal washing and briquetting plant was shut down. Following decommissioning of the Nike power plant of cargo handling broke on. In the years 2006 and 2007, the demolition of the railway tracks was carried out.