Paderborn Hauptbahnhof

Paderborn Hauptbahnhof is the main passenger station in the city of Paderborn in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located on the Hamm–Warburg line, part of the Mid-Germany Connection from Cologne or Düsseldorf to Thuringia and Saxony. The Senne Railway branches off to Bielefeld in Paderborn.

Paderborn Hauptbahnhof
Through station
LocationBahnhofstr. 29, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates51°42′47″N 8°44′26″E
Line(s)
Platforms5
Other information
Station code4846[1]
DS100 codeEPD[2]
IBNR8000297
Category2[1]
Fare zoneWestfalentarif: 77701[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened4 October 1850[4]
Services
Preceding station   DB Regio NRW   Following station
RE 11
Rhein-Hellweg-Express
Preceding station   eurobahn   Following station
TerminusRB 72
Ostwestfalen-Bahn
toward Herford
Scharmede
toward Münster Hbf
RB 89
Ems-Börde-Bahn
toward Warburg
Preceding station   NordWestBahn   Following station
Paderborn-Kassler Tor
RB 74
Senne-Bahn		Terminus
TerminusRB 84
Egge-Bahn
toward Kreiensen
Preceding station   S-Bahn Hannover   Following station
TerminusS 5

History

The railway between Hamm and Paderborn was opened on 1 October 1850 by the Royal Westphalian Railway Company. The line was extended to Warburg in 1853. The Senne Railway was opened in July 1902. The Alme Valley Railway was opened in 1899 towards Büren; it was closed in 1981. Recently there was an attempt to reopen the line to provide a link to Paderborn Lippstadt Airport.

Operations

Several long-distance trains on InterCity line 50 stop at Paderborn. Regional services operate on several Regional-Express and Regionalbahn lines through Paderborn. In addition, Hanover S-Bahn services terminate at the station.[5]

LineLine nameRoute
RE 11 Rhein-Hellweg-Express Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport – Duisburg – Essen – Dortmund – Hamm (Westf) – Paderborn – Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe
RB 72 Ostwestfalen-Bahn Herford – Lage (Lippe) – Detmold – Altenbeken – Paderborn
RB 74 Senne-Bahn Bielefeld – Sennestadt – Paderborn
RB 84/RB 85 Egge-Bahn)/Oberweserbahn Paderborn – Ottbergen (coupling/uncoupling) – Holzminden – Kreiensen (RB 84)| –Bodenfelde – Göttingen (RB 85)
RB 89 Ems-Börde-Bahn Münster (Westf) – Hamm (Westf) – Paderborn – Warburg (Westf)
S 5 Hanover S-Bahn Paderborn – Hamelin – Weetzen – Hanover – Langenhagen – Hanover Airport

Location

The station is only 500 metres from the city centre. PaderSprinter buses operate from Westerntor and Zentralstation bus stops next to the station, connecting to the centre as well as most other parts of the city. Regional buses run from the bus station to nearby towns (including Delbrück, Hövelhof, Bad Lippspringe, Büren and Warburg).

Access

Only platforms 1 to 3 are accessible by lift. There is a wheelchair lift (operated by rail staff) on the stairs to platforms 4 and 5, which are served by Regionalbahn trains to and from Herford, Bielefeld and Holzminden.

Transport Associations

Paderborn is part of the Paderborn-Höxter Regional Transport Association (Nahverkehrsverbund Paderborn-Höxter).

References
  1. "Stationspreisliste 2021" [Station price list 2021] (PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2009/2010 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2009. ISBN 978-3-89494-139-0.
  3. "Fahrtauskunft". Westfalentarif. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
  4. "Paderborn Hauptbahnhof operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
  5. "Paderborn Hauptbahnhof". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 31 January 2017.
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