Nottuln-Appelhülsen station
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| Location | Bahnhofstr. 59, Appelhülsen, Nottuln, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 51°53′32″N 7°25′34″E / 51.89221083°N 7.42623941°E | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Wanne-Eickel Hbf – Hamburg Hbf | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 | |||||||||||||||
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| Accessible | Yes | |||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 167[1] | |||||||||||||||
| DS100 code | EAPH[2] | |||||||||||||||
| IBNR | 8000595 | |||||||||||||||
| Category | 4[1] | |||||||||||||||
| Fare zone | Westfalentarif: 55535[3] | |||||||||||||||
| Website | www.bahnhof.de | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1 January 1870[4] | |||||||||||||||
| Previous names | Appelhülsen | |||||||||||||||
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Nottuln-Appelhülsen is a station in Appelhülsen, a suburb of the municipality of Nottuln, in the district of Coesfeld in the German state of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
The Cologne-Minden Railway Company (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) and Münster station (now Münster (Westfalen) Hauptbahnhof) on its trunk line. Appelhülsen station was opened at the same time.[5][4]
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.[5]
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 in 1974. The signal box was replaced by an electronic interlocking, 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.[4] 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.[5]
