Scherfede station

Scherfede station is located in the Warburg district of Rimbeck in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. A busy locomotive workshop developed there up to the mid-20th century.

Scherfede
Through station
Island platform at Scherfede station
LocationScherfede, North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Coordinates51°31′29″N 9°2′50″E
Line(s)
Platforms2
Other information
Station code5559[1]
DS100 codeHSCD[2]
IBNR8005336
Category6[1]
Fare zoneWestfalentarif: 77973[3]
Websitewww.bahnhof.de
History
Opened10 February 1873 [4]
Services
Preceding station   Deutsche Bahn   Following station
Westheim (Westf)
toward Hagen Hbf
RE 17
Sauerland-Express

History

In 1872, the first locomotive ran on Hagen–Warburg–Kassel line (Upper Ruhr Valley Railway) through Scherfede station.[5]

The Holzminden–Scherfede railway was opened four years later on 15 October 1876. Passenger traffic was abandoned on this line on 2 June 1984 and freight was abandoned on this line from Scherfede on 10 June 2001.[6] The establishment of this line made Scherfede into a junction station, which led to the establishment of an independent railway workshop. West of the rollingstock depot, there was (until the closure of the workshop) a 17-road semicircular roundhouse furnished with workshop spaces.

Before and during the Second World War, the importance of the station and the railway workshop rose. More than 100 trains ran on the east–west route each day and numerous trains were assembled in the station. Air raids during the war inflicted severe damage, while the roof of the roundhouse in the workshop was destroyed.[7] On 22 February 1945, an air raid on Scherfede station completely destroyed a signal box and several buildings in the area were damaged by incendiary projectiles. Three people were killed. On 21 March 1945 there was another air raid.[5] On 3 April 1945, the town and the station were occupied by American soldiers after the withdrawal of German troops.[5] During the food shortage immediately after the war, the station was often used by urban women travelling to buy food (on Hamsterfahrten, literally “hamster rides”) in the fertile Warburger Börde (the rolling country around Warburg). The station, workshop and Bahnmeisterei (track maintenance supervisor’s office) included about 400 employees at this time. In subsequent years, its importance declined greatly. The workshop lost its independence and was operated from May 1950 for a short time as a branch of the Warburg workshop. Since the mid-1950s, the site has been privately operated. Roads 16 and 17 of the locomotive shed have remained, while the water tower was demolished in the early 1970s.[7]

The station building was demolished in 1983.[5]

There were two signal boxes at Scherfede station, which were taken into operation in 1915. The western signal box is no longer operational, but it is privately used, while the Eastern signal box is still operated. Scherfede station is not yet connected to an electronic interlocking.[8]

Current operation

The Regional-Express service between Hagen and Warburg/Kassel (RE 17: the Sauerland-Express) stops in Scherfede. Buses also operate to Paderborn.[9]

Line Line name Route Frequency
RE 17 Sauerland-Express Hagen – Schwerte - Fröndenberg – Arnsberg (Westf) – Scherfede – Warburg (– Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe) 60 min / (120 min)

References

Footnotes
  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. "Scherfede station operations". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  5. "Dorfchronik" (in German). Scherfede.de. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  6. "Scherfede-Holzminden" (in German). Archived from the original on 17 September 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  7. "BD Wuppertal - Werke" (in German). Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  8. "Scherfede-Holzminden: Abschnitt Scherfede-Eissen" (in German). Archived from the original on 8 July 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
  9. "Scherfede station". NRW Rail Archive (in German). André Joost. Retrieved 8 August 2013.

Sources
  • Erich Preuß (ed.). Das große Archiv der deutschen Bahnhöfe (in German). Munich: GeraMond-Verl. ISSN 0949-2127 (loose leaf)
  • Riepelmeier, Garrelt. Matthias Fuhrmann (ed.). Das Bw Scherfede. Deutsche Bahnbetriebswerke (in German). 53 (supplement). Munich: GeraMond-Verl. ISSN 0949-2119 (loose leaf)
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