Nottuln-Appelhülsen is a station in Appelhülsen, a suburb of the municipality of

Nottuln Nottuln (; Low German: ''Notteln'') is a municipality in the district of Coesfeld in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geography Nottuln is situated in the Baumberge, approx. 20 km west of Münster. Neighbouring municipalities ...

, in the district of

Coesfeld Coesfeld (; Westphalian: ''Koosfeld'') is the capital of the district of Coesfeld in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. History Coesfeld received its city rights in 1197, but was first recorded earlier than that in the biography of St ...

in the German state of

Nordrhein-Westfalen 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 inhabi ...

History

The

Cologne-Minden Railway Company The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (German, old spelling: ''Cöln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', ''CME'') was along with the Bergisch-Märkische Railway Company and the Rhenish Railway Company one of the railway companies that in the mid-19th ...

(''Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft'', CME) received a concession to build the railway from Wanne to Osnabrück on 28 May 1866. This was part of the Hamburg–Venlo railway, which in turn was part of an international Paris–Hamburg railway. On 1 January 1870, the CME commenced passenger services on the first section between ''Wanne'' station (now

Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof Wanne-Eickel Hauptbahnhof is a railway station in the former city of Wanne-Eickel, now part of Herne in western Germany. History The station grew out of the ''Pluto-Thies'' freight yard, opened in 1856 on the Duisburg–Dortmund line section ...

) and ''Münster'' station (now

Münster (Westfalen) Hauptbahnhof Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state dist ...

) on its trunk line. Appelhülsen station was opened at the same time. The importance of the station for the transport of passengers and freight in Appelhülsen and the surrounding area was so great that it was classified as a second class station. After Buldern and Bösensell stations received freight facilities, it was reclassified as a third class station. Until 1942, Appelhülsen station was the only railway station between Münster and Dülmen. It included a workshop and a carpenter's workshop, with up to 30 people working at the time. General freight traffic was stopped in 1973. The station came under the control of

Dülmen station Dülmen station is one of two operating tower stations (of six that formerly operated) in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located in Dülmen in western Münsterland. It is at the crossing of the Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg and the ...

in 1974. The signal box was replaced by an

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, which is remotely controlled from Dülmen, in 1998. The signal box was demolished in November 2000. The name of the station was changed from ''Appelhülsen'' to ''Nottuln-Appelhülsen'' in 2004. A new pedestrian crossing was built over the railway tracks as part of the renovation of the station in 2012. The parking lots and bicycle stands were expanded in the autumn of 2013.

Station building

The station building was built of yellow bricks in 1870 together with the rest of the station. The station restaurant was closed in 1970 and the ticket office was closed 1975. The municipality of Nottuln acquired the heritage-listed entrance building in 1999. All attempts to sell the building, including over

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, were unsuccessful. On 18 January 2007, the roof of the station building was so badly damaged by extratropical cyclone Kyrill that it had to be demolished in April 2007 for safety reasons. The municipality of Nottuln had listed the building as a monument.

Operations

Passenger services

The station is served only by regional services of the so-called Haard-Achse network: the RE 2 ''

Rhein-Haard-Express The Rhein-Haard-Express (RE 2) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Osnabrück via Münster, Recklinghausen, Gelsenkirchen, Essen and Duisburg to Düsseldorf. The Haard-Bahn (RB 42) ope ...

'' (Münster (Westf) Hbf – Düsseldorf Hbf) and the RE 42 ''

Niers-Haard-Express The Rhein-Haard-Express (RE 2) is a Regional-Express service in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), running from Osnabrück via Münster, Recklinghausen, Gelsenkirchen, Essen and Duisburg to Düsseldorf. The Haard-Bahn (RB 42) ope ...

'' (Münster (Westf) Hbf – Mönchengladbach Hbf). Both lines are operated by

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, Region NRW as part of the ''Rhein-Haard'' network.

References

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