Bad Bentheim station

Almelo-Salzbergen railway (KBS 375)
Gronau (Westf)–Coevorden railway (KBS 376)

Platforms3Other informationStation code248DS100 codeHBTH^[1]IBNR8000879Category5^[2]Fare zone

VGB: 104 (buses only)^[3]
VGE: Bad Bentheim (VGB transitional tariff, buses only)^[4]

Websitewww.bahnhof.deHistoryOpened1865Services

Preceding station	DB Fernverkehr		Following station
Hengelo towards Amsterdam Centraal		IC 77	Rheine towards Berlin Ostbahnhof
Preceding station	European Sleeper		Following station
Deventer towards Brussels-South		Brussels - Prague	Berlin Hbf towards Praha hl.n.
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 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.

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]

IC 77: Amsterdam Centraal – Amersfoort – Hengelo – Bad Bentheim – Osnabrück – Hannover – Berlin
ES: Brussels – Rotterdam – Amsterdam – Amersfoort – Bad Bentheim – Berlin – Dresden – Bad Schandau – Prague
Local services:
- RB 56: Bad Bentheim – Quendorf – Nordhorn-Blanke – Nordhorn – Neuenhaus Süd – Neuenhaus
- RB 61: Hengelo – Bad Bentheim – Rheine – Osnabrück – Herford – Bielefeld

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

100 Bad Bentheim - Nordhorn - Neuenhaus - Uelsen - Wilsum - Emlichheim
200 Bad Bentheim - Nordhorn - Neuenhaus - Veldhausen - Hoogstede - Emlichheim

The station

References

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