Norden is a railway station[1] located in Norden in East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a junction station situated on the Emsland Railway line (Rheine - Norddeich), with train services provided by Deutsche Bahn, and the historic Ostfriesische Küstenbahn (lit. 'East Frisian Coastal Railway'). The latter is operated by a heritage train on Sundays from June to October.[2]
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Location | Norden, Lower Saxony, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 53°35′16″N 7°13′09″E / 53.58778°N 7.21917°E | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | Emsland Railway East Frisian Coastal Railway | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Website | www.bahnhof.de | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Opened | 1883 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Train services
editThe station is served by the following service(s):[3][4]
Line | Route | Interval | Operator | Rolling stock |
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IC 34 | Norddeich Mole – Norden – Emden – Münster – Hamm – Unna – Siegen — Wetzlar – Frankfurt (ends December 2024) | One train pair | DB Fernverkehr | Intercity 2 |
IC 35 | Norddeich Mole – Norden – Emden – Münster – Düsseldorf – Cologne – Bonn – Koblenz (– Mainz – Mannheim – Stuttgart) | Two train pairs | ||
ICE 47 | Norddeich Mole – Norden – Emden – Münster – Düsseldorf – Cologne Messe/Deutz – Frankfurt Airport – Mannheim – Stuttgart | One train pair | ICE 3, ICE 3neo | |
IC 56 | Norddeich Mole – Norden – Emden – Bremen – Hanover – Braunschweig – Magdeburg – Leipzig | Three train pairs | Intercity 2 | |
RE 1 | Norddeich Mole – Norden – Emden – Leer – Oldenburg – Delmenhorst – Bremen – Nienburg – Hannover | Two hours | DB Regio Nord |
Heritage trains
editThe line from Norden to Dornum is a heritage railway operated by the MKO, the Museumseisenbahn Küstenbahn Ostfriesland e.V. (lit. 'Heritage railway Coastal Railway of East Frisia'). Heritage trains, a diesel locomotive hauling Donnerbüchse coaches, operates on Sundays from June to October on the section of the former Ostfriesische Küstenbahn (lit. 'East Frisian Coastal Railway'), which originally connected Norden with Dornum, Esens, Jever and Sande. The section between Dornum and Esens has been dismantled in 1986.[2]
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Former signal box at Norden Station
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Former roundhouse, which is now a museum of historic rolling stock
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Köf locomotive pulling cargo coaches
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Heritage train (V 60 locomotive and coaches) at Norden station
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Heritage train in Dornum
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Norden–Dornum heritage railway line
References
edit- ^ Norden station at the Deutsche Bahn website
- ^ a b "Museumseisenbahn Küstenbahn Ostfriesland (MKO) website" (in German). Retrieved 21 July 2024.
- ^ "Datenbanksuche — Datenbank Fernverkehr". www.fernbahn.de. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
- ^ "Bahnhof Norden". www.bahnhof.de (in German). Retrieved 16 November 2024.