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
General information
Location	Bahnhofstr. 29, Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia Germany
Coordinates	51°42′47″N 8°44′26″E
Line(s)	Hamm–Warburg line (KBS 430) Senne Railway (KBS 403)
Platforms	5
Other information
Station code	4846
DS100 code	EPD
IBNR	8000297
Category	2
Fare zone	Westfalentarif: 77701
Website	www.bahnhof.de
History
Opened	4 October 1850 (1850-10-04)
Services
Preceding station DB Fernverkehr Following station Lippstadt towards Düsseldorf Hbf or Köln Hbf IC 51 Altenbeken towards Gera Hbf Preceding station National Express Germany Following station Lippstadt towards Düsseldorf Hbf RE 11 (Rhein-Hellweg-Express) Altenbeken towards Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe Preceding station Following station Terminus RB 72 Altenbeken towards Herford Scharmede towards Münster Hbf RB 89 Altenbeken towards Warburg Preceding station NordWestBahn Following station Paderborn-Kassler Tor towards Bielefeld Hbf RB 74 Terminus Terminus RB 84 Altenbeken towards Kreiensen Preceding station Hanover S-Bahn Following station Terminus S 5 Altenbeken towards Hannover Flughafen

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 51 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.

Line	Name	Route
ICE 41		Düsseldorf – Hamm – Paderborn – Kassel – Würzburg – Nuremberg – Munich
IC 51	Mitte-Deutschland-Verbindung	Düsseldorf – Hamm – Paderborn – Kassel – Erfurt – Gera
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	Paderborn – Altenbeken – Ottbergen (coupling/uncoupling) –	Holzminden – Kreiensen
	Oberweserbahn		Bodenfelde – Göttingen
RB 89	Ems-Börde-Bahn	Münster (Westf) – Hamm (Westf) – Paderborn – Altenbeken – Warburg (Westf)
S 5	Hanover S-Bahn	Paderborn – Altenbeken – 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).

See also

• Rail transport in Germany
• Railway stations in Germany

External links

• Media related to Paderborn Hauptbahnhof at Wikimedia Commons
• Track plan of Paderborn Hbf on the website of Deutsche Bahn (PDF; 235,7 KB)