Brilon Stadt station
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Brilon Stadt
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| Through station | |
Old station building
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| Location |
Brilon, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 51°23′55″N 8°34′31″E / 51.3985°N 8.5753°ECoordinates: 51°23′55″N 8°34′31″E / 51.3985°N 8.5753°E |
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| Platforms | 1 |
| Other information | |
| Station code | 8251 |
| DS100 code | EBRS |
| Category | 6 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 July 1900 |
Brilon Stadt (town) station is one of four passenger stations that are still in service in the town of Brilon in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located near the centre of Brilon. The former goods shed of the station is a listed building.
Brilon Stadt station was opened by the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn (Westphalian Provincial Railway, WLE) on 1 December 1898 with the first section of the Möhne Valley Railway from Belecke to Brilon. Exactly one year later, it was extended from Belecke to Soest.
The section of the Alme Valley Railway from Büren to Brilon Wald was opened on 1 April 1901. This made Brilon Stadt station into a railway junction.
The regularly scheduled passenger services on the Möhne Valley Railway between Belecke and Brilon ended on 26 September 1958. Freight traffic between Brilon and Heidberg ended on 28 February 1979. The tracks were dismantled in the following year.
Passenger services on the route from Brilon Wald via Brilon Stadt, Thülen, Alme and Büren to Paderborn ended on 29 September 1974. The freight traffic between Brilon Stadt and the Egger company in Brilon has continued and is still operated regularly today.
Museum train services have operated in the summer months on the Brilon Stadt–Büren (Westf)-Weinberg section since 1981. The museum trains have operated only to and from Thülen since 2008 because of the absence of a platform in Brilon Stadt.
In 2007, the line between Brilon Wald and Brilon Egger was restored because the Egger company had to increase its operations and rehabilitation of the line was a condition for expanding its site in Brilon.
In 2008, platform tracks 1 and 4–8 in Brilon Stadt station were demolished and the Brilon Arkaden shopping centre was built on the former railway land. Brilon Stadt now retained only two tracks and these were required for freight.
From the timetable change of 2011/2012 on 11 December 2011, regional passenger services were extended beyond Brilon Wald to Brilon Stadt again. Its realisation has previously been postponed several times, but at the end of 2008 the Ministry for Construction and Transport of North Rhine-Westphalia agreed to add Brilon Stadt station to its infrastructure financing plan on condition that the Zweckverband SPNV Ruhr-Lippe (association for rail passenger transport of Ruhr-Lippe, ZRL) also funded the line from Brilon Wald to Brilon Stadt. The ZRL decided on 23 June 2009 to resume scheduled regional services on this section from the timetable change of December 2011.
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