Lünen Hauptbahnhof is a railway station located north of central
Lünen
Lünen () is a town with around 86,000 inhabitants in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located north of Dortmund, on both banks of the Lippe (river), River Lippe. It is the largest town of the Unna (district), Unna district and part of the R ...
on the outskirts of Nordlünen in the German state of
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia or North-Rhine/Westphalia, commonly shortened to NRW, is a States of Germany, state () in Old states of Germany, Western Germany. With more than 18 million inhabitants, it is the List of German states by population, most ...
.
Significance
Lünen Hauptbahnhof is an important station for regional trains in the
district of Unna. Only regional trains operate here. It is the most important transport hub for public transport within the city of Lünen and the northern part of the district of Unna, and it is classified by
Deutsche Bahn
(, ; abbreviated as DB or DB AG ) is the national railway company of Germany, and a state-owned enterprise under the control of the German government. Headquartered in the Bahntower in Berlin, it is a joint-stock company ( AG).
DB was fou ...
as a
category 4 station.
Station facility
Lünen Hauptbahnhof is built at the railway junction and has diverging platforms. There are five tracks at the station, four of which are located on station platforms. The fifth track was used as a connection to the Victoria colliery and is now closed.
The station building is built between the diverging railways, which are on different levels. On the lower level is the
Dortmund–Gronau line (
KBS 412) with tracks 1 and 2, on the upper level is the
Dortmund-Münster line (KBS 411) with tracks 3 and 4. There is also the disused track 5. The lower level connects to the nearby Lünen central bus station. Direct access to the platforms is possible through a tunnel from the lower level. The western end of this pedestrian tunnel provides an indirect passage to the inner city.
Platforms
*Track 1: RB51 (
Dortmund
Dortmund (; ; ) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia, after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the List of cities in Germany by population, ninth-largest city in Germany. With a population of 614,495 inhabitants, it is the largest city ...
–Lünen–
Coesfeld
Coesfeld (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Koosfeld'') is the capital of the Coesfeld (district), district of Coesfeld in the Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
History
Coesfeld received its city rights in 1197, but was first ...
–
Gronau–
Enschede
Enschede (; local ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the province of Overijssel and the Twente region of the eastern Netherlands. The east of the urban area reaches ...
) and (Lünen–Dortmund)
*Track 2: RB51 (Enschede–Gronau–Coesfeld–Lünen–Dortmund)
*Track 3: RB50 (
Münster
Münster (; ) is an independent city#Germany, 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 ...
–Lünen–Dortmund) and non-stopping long-distance trains (Münster–Dortmund)
*Track 4: RB50 (Dortmund–Lünen–Münster), and non-stopping long-distance trains (Dortmund - Münster)
*Track 5: closed (connection to the former Victoria colliery)
History
The station was opened in 1917 as Lünen Ost station, but by 1925 it had been renamed ''Lünen Hauptbahnhof''. It was not the first station in Lünen; this was the now disused Lünen-Nord station, which was opened at the end of the 19th century by the
Dortmund-Gronau-Enschede Railway Company ().
The station's entrance building has been extensively renovated.
Services
Lünen station is served by two regional railway lines.
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Railway stations in North Rhine-Westphalia
Railway stations in Germany opened in 1928