Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt station
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Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt
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| Location |
Steinfurt, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany |
| Coordinates | 52°8′52″N 7°19′47″E / 52.14778°N 7.32972°ECoordinates: 52°8′52″N 7°19′47″E / 52.14778°N 7.32972°E |
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| Platforms | 2 |
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| Station code | 997 |
| DS100 code | EBFT |
| Category | 6 |
| Website | www.bahnhof.de |
| History | |
| Opened | 30 September 1875 |
Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt station is the main station of the town of Steinfurt in western Munsterland in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is located in the district of Burgsteinfurt. The station is a former railway junction on the Münster–Enschede railway. The Coesfeld–Rheine railway and the Borken–Steinfurt railway are closed and largely dismantled.
In 1870, the Münster-Enschede Railway Company received a concession to build a line from Münster to Enschede. When it became insolvent in 1874, the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) took it over and continued its construction. On 30 September 1875, Burgsteinfurt station was opened together with the line.
The Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company was of high national importance and the Rhenish Railway Company planned its Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway to compete with it. Burgsteinfurt station became a junction station with the completion of this line on 1 July 1879. The Rhenish line crossed the KWE line south of Burgsteinfurt station.
Finally the line from Borken of the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn (Westphalian Land Railway, WLE) was opened to Burgsteinfurt on 1 October 1902.
As a result of the Second World War, operations on several sections came to a halt. Rheine station was completely destroyed in an air raid on 5 October 1944 and bridges were blown up in Oberhausen and Dorsten. Traffic across the Dutch border to Enschede was closed from 1940 to 1951 and again from 1981 to 2001.
On the WLE line to Borken, passenger services were restricted to only semi-fast trains after only 60 years of operations on 30 September 1962 and then stopped completely on 27 September 1975. The transport of freight between Steinfurt and Ahaus had already been abandoned on 31 December 1972 and the line was immediately dismantled after the final closure of the line on 31 March 1988.
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