Lippstadt station is a stop for long-distance services on the

Mid-Germany Railway The Mid-Germany Railway (german: Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung) is a rail link between German states of Thuringia and Saxony. The central element of this link connects Chemnitz and Glauchau in the east via Gera and Jena to Weimar in the west. It i ...

(german: Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung) in the town of Lippstadt in the district of Soest, in the German state of

North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more than 18 million inha ...

. It is on the Hamm–Warburg and the Munster–Warstein railways. Until 1979, the

Rheda Railway The Warendorf Railway (german: Warendorfer Bahn) is a single-track branch line from Münster via Warendorf to Rheda-Wiedenbrück in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is now served by a train that continues from Rheda-Wiedenbrück to ...

also branched off to Rheda.

Services

Long-distance services

Since the revised timetable of December 2010, Lippstadt has been served once a day by an

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(ICE) or

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(IC) service from

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

and return and is served by occasional ICE or IC services from Cologne and

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf ( , , ; often in English sources; Low Franconian and Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: ''Düsseldörp'' ; archaic nl, Dusseldorp ) is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second- ...

Leipzig Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as ...

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label= Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth ...

and

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and return. Due to the lack of useful connections on the Mid-Germany Railway,

Eurobahn Eurobahn is a railway operator in Germany, established in 1998. It operates regional train services in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with cross-border services including Lower Saxony and the Netherlands. Initially a joint venture between K ...

runs a pair of trains as line RB89 in the early mornings and the late evening to and from Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe, which provide connections to trains to and from southern Germany.

Regional transport services

Lippstadt station is served by the

NRW-Express The NRW-Express is a Regional-Express rail service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Aachen via Cologne, Düsseldorf, Duisburg, Essen, Bochum and Dortmund to Hamm as line RE 1. The line is part of the Rhine-Ruh ...

at 2-hour intervals and the Ems-Börde-Bahn stopping service every 30 minutes. The ''NRW-Express'' is operated by

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and the ''Ems-Börde-Bahn'' is operated by Eurobahn (

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History

The main line between Hamm and Paderborn was opened on 4 October 1850 by the

Royal Westphalian Railway Company The Royal Westphalian Railway (german: Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) was a German rail company established in 1848 with funding from the Prussian government, which later became part of the Prussian State Railways. The network eventuall ...

(''Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn'', KWE). The extension to

Warburg Warburg (; Westphalian: ''Warberich'' or ''Warborg'') is a town in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, central Germany on the river Diemel near the three-state point shared by Hessen, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia. It is in Höxter distri ...

was opened in 1853. The line from Munster to Warstein was opened on 31 October 1883. The line to Rheda followed a few years later. Operations on the north-south route of the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn (Westphalian State Railway) between Münster and Warstein was closed in two stages for passenger services up to 1975. Today it is used purely as a freight line. In 1979, passenger services were finally closed to Rheda. This line is now abandoned and largely dismantled. The Lippstadt-Nord station on the line to Beckum/ Neubeckum was completely demolished in 1987 (station building, freight shed, loading ramp, rail tracks) and only the now non-functional signal box, which was built in 1910, and the main track survive. The headquarters of the ''Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn'' along with its local freight terminal and central workshop are also near the former Lippstadt-Nord station.

Connections

The station is located just south of central Lippstadt and the pedestrian zone. Opposite the station is the central bus station, where there is access to the city and regional bus lines, as well as to express bus line S60 to Warstein.

Station building

The station building is a functional building from the seventies. It houses a DB ticket office, a DB Service-Store, a bicycle parking facility, toilets and a fast food restaurant.

Access

The station has barrier-free access to platform 1 and the entrance building via ramps, platforms tracks 2 and 3 are accessible by lift. Platform 1 is equipped with a tactile guidance system for the visually impaired.

Regional transport association

The town of Lippstadt is part of the ''Verkehrsgemeinschaft Ruhr-Lippe'' (transport community of Westphalia-Lippe).

References

{{Reflist Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia Railway stations in Germany opened in 1850 1850 establishments in Prussia Buildings and structures in Soest (district)