page_title: Herford–Himmighausen railway
section_title: Long-distance transport
hierarchical_section_title: Herford–Himmighausen railway / History / Long-distance transport
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: 101 141-0 am 12.08.2007 mit Lr 78952 KDA - EPD in Lage (Lippe)
context_page_description: The Herford–Himmighausen railway is a 48 km-long line from Herford via Detmold to Himmighausen and is a single-track and electrified main line. It is located in Ostwestfalen-Lippe in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia and is part of Deutsche Bahn’s Münster-Ostwestfalen regional network, which has its headquarters in Münster. In Herford this route is known as the Lippische Bahn. The line from Herford to Detmold was built by the Cologne-Minden Railway Company.
context_section_description: The line had significant use for north–south long-distance traffic until the 1970s and 1980s. There were semi-fast trains (Eilzug) and express trains (Durchgangszug) with portions running from Osnabrück or Bielefeld via Warburg and Kassel to Munich via Würzburg (including a night train with sleeping and couchette cars) and to Basel. In the north semi-fast trains reached Hamburg or Cuxhaven. Some semi-fast trains ran as a diesel railcar or as a locomotive-hauled push-pull train on the Solling Railway to the Harz. The line was served by a pair of semi-fast trains between Enschede and Bad Pyrmont with reversal in Himmighausen.
  Over the years, passenger services were, however, more and more rationalised. Instead of the long-distance trains, regular-interval regional services had already replaced long-distance services by the mid-1980s. Although long-distance trains have been diverted over the line because of reconstruction projects, this has become rarer as a result of the rationalisation of infrastructure.
caption: 101 141 with empty rollingstock running from Düsseldorf to Paderborn on 12 August 2007 in Lage
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