Münster–Rheine railway

Münster–Rheine railway
Münster–Rheine
Route number: 410
Line length: 39
Gauge: 1435
Voltage: 15 kV 16.7 Hz AC
Legend
Straight track
from Almelo (NL) / Emsland Railway
Junction from left
from Spelle
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from Ochtrup
Station on track
208.9 Rheine
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to Osnabrück
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Rheine marshalling yard
Junction to right
to Dorsten
Unknown BSicon "eHST"
202.0 Rheine-Mesum
Station on track
195.5 Emsdetten
Small non-passenger station on track
193.2 Emsdetten Stadt siding
Station on track
190.6 Reckenfeld
Station on track
185.2 Greven
Underbridge
A 1
Stop on track
179.6 Münster-Sprakel
Junction from right
from Enschede
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173.4 Nevinghoff
Station on track
173.1 Münster Zentrum Nord
Junction from left
from Hamburg
Junction from left
from Rheda-Wiedenbrück
Station on track
170.3 Münster (Westf) Hbf
Junction to left
to Lippstadt
Junction to right
to Coesfeld
Junction to right
to Wanne-Eickel
Junction to right
to Lünen
Straight track
to Hamm

The Münster–Rheine railway is a nearly 39 km long main line railway from Münster to Rheine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is entirely double track and electrified.

It was opened by the Prussian government-funded Royal Westphalian Railway Company in 1856 and is one of the oldest railways in Germany.

History

The Royal Westphalian Railway (German: Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) built its main line from Hamm to Warburg in the early 1850s. In 1855, the KWE took over the Munster-Hamm Railway Company (Münster-Hammer Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft), together with its line to Munster, which it then extended further north to Rheine. It opened its line on 23 June 1856, reaching Rheine station on the same day as both of the two sections of the Hanoverian Western Railway were completed to the station: the line from Löhne and the Emsland Railway to the North Sea port of Emden.

In 1879, the Rhenish Railway Company (Rheinische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, RhE) opened its own North Sea route from Duisburg via Rheine to Quakenbrück and so made the station one of the major railway junctions in north-western Germany.

Current operations

IC 2333 leaving Münster Hbf to run to Norddeich Mole via Emden Hbf

One or two Regional-Express and one Regionalbahn service each hour operate on the line. Every two hours InterCity services run on the line between Norddeich Mole and Luxembourg.

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