Ahlen (Westfalen) station

Ahlen (Westfalen)
Through station

Ahlen station
Location Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates 51°45′42″N 7°53′42″E / 51.76167°N 7.89500°ECoordinates: 51°45′42″N 7°53′42″E / 51.76167°N 7.89500°E
Line(s)
Platforms 3
Other information
Station code 23
DS100 codeEAHL
Category4[1]
History
Opened 15.10.1847 (station)[2]
1848 (original entrance building)
1916 (new entrance building)[2]
Platforms in Ahlen station
Bus on line C6 at Ahlen station

Ahlen (Westfalen) station—abbreviated to Ahlen (Westf)—serves the town of Ahlen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is situated on the electrified, four-track Hamm–Minden railway, which connects the Ruhr region to Hanover. It was originally part of the network of the former Cologne-Minden Railway Company and is now part of the Deutsche Bahn network.

History

The station was opened on 15 Ahlen October 1847 during the construction of the trunk line of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German: Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft). The first station building, built in 1848, was demolished during the First World War, because at this point the line, which had previously run at ground level, was placed on an embankment. The new station building, which is still in use, opened in 1916.[2]

Current significance

The station is a classed as a category 4 station.[1] It is connected by services every half hour to Bielefeld, Hamm (Westf) and Gütersloh, which each provide further connections under North Rhine-Westphalia’s integrated timetable.[3]

Line Name Route Frequency Operator
RE 6 Westfalen-Express Minden – Bielefeld – Ahlen – Hamm (Westf) – Dortmund – Essen – Duisburg – Düsseldorf 60 min DB Regio NRW
RB 69 Ems-Börde-Bahn Bielefeld – Ahlen – Hamm – Münster (Westf) 60 min eurobahn
See also List of regional rail lines in North Rhine-Westphalia

The station has a travel centre, which since 2007 has been operated by a private travel agency.[4] There is also a bookstore with a kiosk operation and a bakery. For the purchase of tickets outside of business hours ticket machines are available at the travel centre for long-distance and local services.

The stairways to the platforms are equipped on one side with stairlifts for wheelchair access.

Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
RE 6
Westfalen-Express
toward Minden
Preceding station   eurobahn   Following station
toward Münster Hbf
RB 69
Ems-Börde-Bahn

Links from the station

Next to the station is the town’s central bus station. From here city bus lines run to the urban area of Ahlen. Regional bus services run to neighbouring cities. The city buses are operated by Regionalverkehr Münsterland (Regional transport of Münsterland) and the city of Ahlen.[3]

Park and Ride

Behind the station building is a parking area with parking spaces for park-and-ride and “park-and-rail” (for longer journeys than commuting). At the central bus station there are bicycle stands.

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Stationspreisliste 2015" [Station price list 2015] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 15 December 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Ahlen (Westf) station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Ahlen (Westf) station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 21 April 2012.
  4. ↑ Christian Wolf. Ahlen damals und heute – Stadtansichten im Wandel der Jahrzehnte (in German). Münster 2008: Aschendorff Verlag. ISBN 978-3-402-12762-9.

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