Coesfeld station

Coesfeld Station is the main railway station of the town of Coesfeld and an important transport hub in western Münsterland in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is a junction station on the Dortmund–Enschede, Dorsten-Coesfeld and Empel-Rees–Münster lines.HistoryThe Dortmund-Gronau-Enschede Railway Company began to build its line from Dortmund in 1874. On 1 August 1875, it opened Coesfeld Station at the end of the section from Dülmen East. Nearly two months later, another section was opened to Gronau, so that Coesfeld station became a through station.The Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company was of great national importance and the Rhenish Railway Company planned its Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway to compete with it. With the completion of this line on 1 July 1879, Coesfeld station became a “crossing” station . The Rhenish line originally crossed the DGE line to the south of Coesfeld.In 1880, the RhE was the first of the Prussian railways to be nationalised and in 1903 the DGE was one of the last of the private railway companies to be absorbed by the Prussian state railways . It had already begun to build its line from Empel-Rees to Borken around the turn of the century. On 1 October 1904, the new line reached Coesfeld and crossed the two existing lines south of the station. The line was extended to Billerbeck on 1 March 1908 and the last section of the line was completed to Havixbeck on 1 May 1908.