Löhne station

• Hamm- Minden railway line ( KBS 370, KBS 400)
• Railway wages - Rheine ( KBS 375 )
• Elze railway wages ( KBS 372)

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The station wages ( Westphalia ) - short wages ( Westphalia ) - is wages in the northeastern North Rhine -Westphalia is the train station. It lies on the railway line Hamm- Minden, which is part of the configured by Friedrich Harkort highway from Berlin to Hanover to Cologne.

In wages, the railway line via Osnabrück branch off to Rheine from ( part of the Hanover West train to Emden ) and the railway line about Hameln to Elze (and further to Hildesheim ), as a result, the station was as a transit station and marshalling yard for a long time an important railway junction in northwestern Germany.

History

Until the mid-20th century, the railway station was a major hub in person, but especially in freight transport in northwestern Germany. Here met the routes of the Cologne -Minden Railway Company (1847 ), Royal Hanoverian State Railways ( 1855) and Hannover- Altenbekener Railway Company (wages -Hildesheim - Vienenburg, opened in 1875) to one another.

Over many years, crossed here long-distance trains from Berlin to Hannover and Cologne to Paris and Amsterdam on Osnabrück and Hildesheim to Central Germany. The extensive rail facilities were built with many tunnels and flyovers so that a crossing-free crossing of the two main lines was possible. Even today, an independent operation of the railway line Hamm- Minden and the railway line Elze - wages and the railway wages - Rheine is possible. This possibility to use individual journeys of the Weser -Bahn to frets, reminiscent of the formerly important main connection.

His former meaning has now lost the train station and is only a regional station, category 4

Operation

In rail transport following regional express and regional rail lines run:

For the entire public transport system of regional " six- Tariff" (Traffic composite OWL ) and the NRW - tariff applies. In the regional trains to Lower Saxony Lower Saxony and the ticket is valid.

The former rail yard has been canceled, a use of the abandoned site but not yet found, so that the passengers presents a sizable little gravel landscape. The location of the site is considered for use in general as difficult as it lies between the railway lines to Bielefeld and Osnabrück and is therefore difficult to access.

Service facilities in the station

The station has a private ticket agency. It was also opened a new P R parking lot in 2011 on the back of the station.

Others

Literary significance acquired the station in Erich Maria Remarque's work " on the Western Front ": During the movement of troops in the First World War is " change wages," the soldiers by their superiors always drummed into the sentence. The station forecourt to the central bus station since the redesign in the 90s therefore " Erich Maria Remarque Square " is.