Rheda-Wiedenbrück station

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The station Rheda- Wiedenbrück is a passenger station in the Westphalian town of Rheda -Wiedenbrück in North Rhine -Westphalia. It lies on the railway line Hamm- Minden, one of the most frequented routes in Germany.

The Warendorf path branches off westwards from Münster ( Westphalia ), so the station is operational seen a separation station. The part of the track east towards Lippstadt is now closed.

Location

The station is located in the district Rheda, north of Rheda downtown.

History

With the construction of their regular route from Cologne to Minden on the Ruhr, the Cologne -Minden Railway Company opened on October 15, 1847 the first railway station, which was initially the name " Rheda in Westphalia ".

After the nationalization of the nominally private railway companies, the portion of Warendorf about Rheda to Lippstadt the Warendorf railway was completed on 25 June 1887, the first crossed the railway station and the existing line at an acute angle. The northern part of the track between Rheda and Münster under stood the " Royal Railway Direction Cöln right bank ", the southern to Lippstadt, however, the " Royal Railway Direction Hannover ".

In the following years there were several changes from the competent railway directorate was beyond the end of the 19th century, the first renaming in Rheda (district of Minden ). Even before the First World War, the station was renamed again in Rheda ( Westphalia).

In the early 1920s which extensive rebuilding the railway station, in the course of Warendorf track was changed considerably. The Warendorf train from Münster was ushered west to Rheda around under the railway line to Hamm parallel to this in the station. East of the station, the train was taken out Warendorf parallel to the railway line to Bielefeld back out of the station and passing between cities and Rheda Wiedenbrück back to the old route. A result, the station became operational at a junction station.

As part of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipal reform and the cities Rheda Wiedenbrück in 1970 has been merged, but it would take a full ten years before the German Federal Railroad took over the name change. Since the September 28, 1980 called the station now " Rheda- Wiedenbrück ".

On 1 May 2001, with the section to Rheda -Wiedenbrück -South the last section of the Warendorf train shut down to Lippstadt, since the station is no longer a junction station but only separation station. Two years later, the freight station was decommissioned on 14 December 2003.

Slab track

For the first time in Germany in 1972, the so-called " slab track " used in the area of the station Rheda- Wiedenbrück instead of conventional gravel - emerging as a superstructure construction.

Track 9 with slab track

Slab track in the station

Operation

In rail transport the station of several regional express and regional train lines is operated: