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Steinfurt-Burgsteinfurt station is the main station of the town of Steinfurt in western Munsterland in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is located in the district of Burgsteinfurt. The station is a former railway junction on the Münster–Enschede railway. The Coesfeld–Rheine railway and the Borken–Steinfurt railway are closed and largely dismantled.HistoryIn 1870, the Münster-Enschede Railway Company received a concession to build a line from Münster to Enschede. When it became insolvent in 1874, the Royal Westphalian Railway Company (Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn, KWE) took it over and continued its construction. On 30 September 1875, Burgsteinfurt station was opened together with the line.The Wanne-Eickel–Hamburg railway of the Cologne-Minden Railway Company was of high national importance and the Rhenish Railway Company planned its Duisburg–Quakenbrück railway to compete with it. Burgsteinfurt station became a junction station with the completion of this line on 1 July 1879. The Rhenish line crossed the KWE line south of Burgsteinfurt station.Finally the line from Borken of the Westfälische Landes-Eisenbahn (Westphalian Land Railway, WLE) was opened to Burgsteinfurt on 1 October 1902.
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