Altenbeken station
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Altenbeken
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 13, Altenbeken, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°45′59″N 8°56′32″E / 51.76639°N 8.94222°ECoordinates: 51°45′59″N 8°56′32″E / 51.76639°N 8.94222°E |
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| Platforms | 11 |
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| Station code | 85 |
| DS100 code | HA |
| IBNR | 8000004 |
| Category | 2 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 October 1864 Station building: 1865 |
Altenbeken station is in the municipality of Altenbeken in the Paderborn district of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station has a great importance as a hub for local and long-distance transport due to its location on the line from the Ruhr area to Warburg and Kassel, as well as to Holzminden–Kreiensen, Hanover and Herford. Its importance has increased recently because of the lack of Intercity-Express/Intercity services on the so-called Mid-Germany Railway (German: Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung).
The railway from Paderborn to Warburg opened in 1853, originally without a station at Altenbeken. The station was built with the branch line to Holzminden opened on 1 October 1864, the station building was opened in 1865. During the time of the Deutsche Reichsbahn (1920–1949), the station was part of the territory of the Directorate of Kassel (Reichsbahndirektion Kassel) and under Deutsche Bundesbahn it continued to be under the Directorate of Kassel, until its dissolution at the end of 1974, after which it was administered from Hanover.
Since the 1980s the line to Herford has only been served by regional services. Former semi-fast and express services from Osnabrück, Bielefeld or Bremen via Altenbeken, Kassel and Bebra and to southern Germany were eliminated one by one. The last service to be closed was the Der Cherusker service to Osnabrück and Bad Bentheim. Intercity-Express and Intercity services can now only be accessed indirectly through Herford. Through trains run to Bielefeld via Lage and the Bega Valley Railway via Oerlinghausen, where there is a connection to Münster. The route to Hanover has been served since 2000 by the Hanover S-Bahn. Intercity trains stopped at Altenbeken station until December 2007, including occasional ICE T trains. Since the timetable change in December 2010, daily pairs of Intercity-Express trains run to and from Dresden and Munich.
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