Marl-Sinsen station

Marl-Sinsen
Through station
View of the platform, 2014
Location	Bahnhofstr. 158, Sinsen-Lenkerbeck, Marl, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°40′03″N 7°10′24″E / 51.66763°N 7.173354°E / 51.66763; 7.173354Coordinates: 51°40′03″N 7°10′24″E / 51.66763°N 7.173354°E / 51.66763; 7.173354
Line(s)	Wanne-Eickel Hbf – Hamburg Hbf (km 17.1)
Platforms	2
Other information
Station code	3984
DS100 code	EMSI
IBNR	8003891
Category	5
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	1880/86
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station Recklinghausen Hbf toward Düsseldorf Hbf RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express Haltern am See toward Münster Hbf Recklinghausen Hbf toward Mönchengladbach Hbf RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express

Marl-Sinsen is the one of three stations in the city of Marl in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station is classified as station category 5 and is under the station administration of Münster.

The station is located on Bahnhofstraße (which is an extension of the Bergstraße/Victoriastraße alignment) at its intersection with Gräwenkolkstraße in the Marl district of Sinsen-Lenkerbeck.

The station is near line kilometre 17.056 on the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway (Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof – Hamburg Hauptbahnhof).

It was established between 1880 and 1886 on the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway as a stop for farming settlement (Bauerschaft) of Sinsen. Aound 25 years after its incorporation into Marl in 1926, the station was renamed Marl-Sinsen at the beginning of the 1950s.

Between 1914 and 1977, it was possible to change at the station to and from the tramways of the Vestische Kleinbahnen and the Vestische Straßenbahnen.

The station is served only by regional services of the so-called Haard-Achse network: the RE 2 Rhein-Haard-Express (Münster (Westf) Hbf – Düsseldorf Hbf) and the RE 42 Niers-Haard-Express (Münster (Westf) Hbf – Mönchengladbach Hbf). Both lines are operated by DB Regio AG, Region NRW as part of the Rhein-Haard network.

There is no station building and access to the only existing platform is via a staircase or a lift from the road underpass. Currently, it has a 38 centimetre-high platform and so it too low to give accessibility for the disabled to railway vehicles running there. The Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Ruhr has announced that it was planned to raise the platform to a height of 76 centimetres and to modernise the station facilities by 2023 at the latest as part of the Modernisierungsoffensive 3 (modernisation campaign, MOF 3), which is co-financed by the federal and state governments.