Coesfeld (Westf) station

Coesfeld (Westf)
Crossing station
Location	Coesfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°56′22″N 7°9′52″E / 51.93944°N 7.16444°E / 51.93944; 7.16444Coordinates: 51°56′22″N 7°9′52″E / 51.93944°N 7.16444°E / 51.93944; 7.16444
Line(s)	Coesfeld–Münster (KBS 408) Dortmund–Enschede (KBS 412) Coesfeld–Dorsten (KBS 424)
Platforms	4
Other information
Station code	1062
DS100 code	ECMF
IBNR	8000066
Category	5
History
Opened	1 August 1875
Services
Preceding station   NordWestBahn   Following station Terminus RB 45 Der Coesfelder Maria Veen toward Dorsten Preceding station   DB Regio Westfalen   Following station Rosendahl-Holtwick toward Enschede RB 51 Westmünsterland-Bahn Lette (Kr Coesfeld) toward Dortmund Hbf Coesfeld Schulzentrum toward Münster-Zentrum Nord RB 63 Baumberge-Bahn Terminus

Coesfeld Station (Westphalia) is the main railway station of the town of Coesfeld and an important transport hub in western Münsterland in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a junction station on the Dortmund–Enschede, Dorsten-Coesfeld and Empel-Rees–Münster lines.

The Dortmund-Gronau-Enschede Railway Company (German: Dortmund-Gronau-Enscheder Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, DGE) began to build its line from Dortmund in 1874. On 1 August 1875, it opened Coesfeld Station (Westphalia) at the end of the section from Dülmen East. Nearly two months later, another section was opened to Gronau, so that Coesfeld station became a through station.

The Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company was of great national importance and the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) planned its Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway to compete with it. With the completion of this line on 1 July 1879, Coesfeld station became a “crossing” station (Kreuzungsbahnhof). The Rhenish line originally crossed the DGE line to the south of Coesfeld.

In 1880, the RhE was the first of the Prussian railways to be nationalised and in 1903 the DGE was one of the last of the (nominally) private railway companies to be absorbed by the Prussian state railways (PSE). It had already begun to build its line from Empel-Rees to Borken around the turn of the century. On 1 October 1904, the new line reached Coesfeld and crossed the two existing lines south of the station. The line was extended to Billerbeck on 1 March 1908 and the last section of the line was completed to Havixbeck on 1 May 1908.

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