Dorsten station

Dorsten station is the central station in the town of Dorsten in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located east of the town centre and the line is orientated north-south.HistoryThe station was built in 1879 as a joint station of the Rhenish Railway and the Dutch Westphalian Railway. The Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck–Winterswijk railway of the Dutch Westphalian Railway was built to supply the textile industry of the Achterhoek region around Winterswijk with coal, but it was also used extensively in the opposite direction to bring food into the growing Ruhr district. The station building, built on an island between the tracks of the Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway (opened on 1 July 1879) on the west and the Gelsenkirchen-Bismarck–Winterswijk line (opened on 13 June 1880) on the eastern side, is now largely in its original condition.Until the nationalisation of both railways in 1882, transfers between the two lines were carried out via a bay platform south of the building. Later a connection protected by signals and four marshalling tracks between the through tracks to the east and the west was built, along with a turntable with a diameter of 13 metres and a three-road roundhouse. The tracks for handling freight were extended considerably to the south and a new hump was built in 1912.