Herford railway station
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Herford
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| Location |
Herford, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°07′10″N 8°39′50″E / 52.11944°N 8.66389°ECoordinates: 52°07′10″N 8°39′50″E / 52.11944°N 8.66389°E |
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| Platforms | 7 |
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| Station code | 2708 |
| DS100 code | EHFD |
| IBNR | 8000162 |
| Category | 2 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
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Herford station is a junction station with four platforms and seven platform tracks in the town of Herford in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It lies on the quadruple track, electrified Hamm–Minden railway, a section of the original route of the historic Cologne-Minden Railway Company.
In Herford Station, the line to Altenbeken branches off to the south and the Ravensberg Railway branches off towards the north to Bünde and Rahden with a connection to the Löhne–Rheine railway. It is classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station.
The station is located in Radewiger Feldmark only about 300 metres from the Herford inner city (Radewig). Just a little further, is the MARTa Herford art and design museum opened in 2005. On the way there is the Herford music school. The district administration, the army recruiting office, the tax office, the Technisches Rathaus (a section of the municipal administration dealing with planning and planning approvals), the GoParc discothèque and the Radewig and MARTa-Viertel parking garages are also nearby.
The railway line is elevated so that intersecting streets of the town can run under it. The station is orientated in a largely north–south direction.
Herford was connected by a single-track line built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company on 15 October 1847. The first provisional station building was built out of brick in 1851. A second track was opened to Bad Oeynhausen in 1853 and to Bielefeld in 1854. The station facilities were rebuilt and the entrance building was extended between 1873 and 1875. A roundhouse with a turntable, water tower and a coal shed were built in 1879 and 1880. The single-track line to Detmold was opened on 31 December 1880. The old station building was replaced by a new building in 1902. The Herford–Kirchlengern line, which has always been single track, was opened on 1 was July 1904.
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