Bad Bentheim station

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Bad Bentheim
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Bad Bentheim station
General information
Location Bad Bentheim, Lower Saxony
Germany
Coordinates 52°18′35″N7°9′26″E / 52.30972°N 7.15722°E / 52.30972; 7.15722
Owned by Deutsche Bahn
Operated by DB Station&Service
Line(s)
Platforms3
Other information
Station code248
DS100 code HBTH [1]
IBNR8000879
Category 5 [2]
Fare zone
  • VGB: 104 (buses only) [3]
  • VGE: Bad Bentheim (VGB transitional tariff, buses only) [4]
Website www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened1865
Services
Preceding station Deutsche Bahn AG-Logo.svg DB Fernverkehr Following station
Hengelo IC 77 Rheine
Preceding station Bentheimer Eisenbahn Following station
Terminus RB 56 Quendorf
towards Neuenhaus
Preceding station Eurobahn Following station
Oldenzaal
towards Hengelo
RB 61 Schüttorf
towards Bielefeld Hbf
Location
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Bad Bentheim
Location within Lower Saxony
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Bad Bentheim
Location within Europe
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Bad Bentheim
Bad Bentheim (Europe)

Bad Bentheim is a railway station [5] located in Bad Bentheim, Germany. The station was opened on 18 October 1865 and is located on the Almelo - Salzbergen railway. The train services are operated by Deutsche Bahn with NS International, Bentheimer Eisenbahn and the WestfalenBahn.

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The station is a border station between Germany and the Netherlands. Dutch and German locomotives used to change here as the voltage is different in the countries. From December 2023, the intercity services are pulled using a Siemens Vectron locomotive, eliminating the need for a locomotive change. From Bad Bentheim, passengers can travel on the international service to Amsterdam. Passengers can also reach cities such as Osnabrück, Hannover and Berlin.

To the east of the station is a shunting area for the Bentheimer Eisenbahn which is a freight railway to Nordhorn and Coevorden.

Train services

The following services currently[ when? ] call at Bad Bentheim: [6]

From December 2010 until December 2013 there was a trial with a Stoptrain service between Hengelo, Oldenzaal and Bad Bentheim, operated by Syntus as the Grensland-Express. It was cancelled in 2013 due to a lack of passengers. From December 2017, the German RB61 has been extended to Hengelo. Additionally there are plans to extend the RB56 from Neuenhaus to Coevorden.

Bus services

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References

  1. Eisenbahnatlas Deutschland (German railway atlas) (2017 ed.). Schweers + Wall. 2017. ISBN   978-3-89494-146-8.
  2. "Stationspreisliste 2024" [Station price list 2024](PDF) (in German). DB Station&Service. 24 April 2023. Retrieved 29 November 2023.
  3. "Preisstufen- & Fahrpreistabelle der VGB" (PDF). Verkehrsgemeinschaft Grafschaft Bentheim. 1 March 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  4. "Ticket und Tarif Infos". Verkehrsgemeinschaft Emsland-Süd. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  5. "Bad Bentheim station". Deutsche Bahn (in German). Archived from the original on March 31, 2002.
  6. "Timetables for Bad Bentheim station". Deutsche Bahn (in German).