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History
The station at Hamm was opened on May 2, 1847, when the first train of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn reached the city. It had been planned from the very beginning to make Hamm a railway hub, therefore the line to Münster (1848) and the line to Paderborn via Soest (1850) were opened soon thereafter. Both lines were built and operated by the Königlich-Westfälische Eisenbahn. Finally, in 1866, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn connected their line to Hagen via Unna to the growing station.

Naturally, due to the exploding increase in traffic at the height of the industrial age, the station was soon unable to handle the growing demand. A first separate marshalling yard was built in the 1880s, situated on the southern side of the passenger station. However, this did not provide real relief, and therefore the station area underwent major reconstruction starting in 1911 and finishing by 1929. The railway lines were put on elevated embankments and the trackbed inside the station was raised, the old station building, originally built as an island platform, was torn down and superseded by the current building, the construction of which was finished by 1920.

The old marshalling yard was replaced by a new structure further south, consisting of three hump yards. The yard serving the East-West trains (operated from signal box Hvw) was one of the first to receive a mechanised hump in 1925. Two new depots were also built near the station, Hamm P for passenger services and Hamm G for freight operations.

Over the years, Hamm prospered and grew quite notably due to its newfound role as a railway town.

During World War II, the station was a prime target due to its strategic location and its large shunting yard. Over 80% of Hamm lay in ruins after the war, and the station was no exception. Passenger services resumed on June 18, 1945 on the line to Dortmund and Duisburg, and on June 20 of the same year on the lines to Bielefeld, Münster and Soest.

The first line to be electrified was the line from Hamm to Düsseldorf Hbf on May 10, 1957. Electrification continued over the next decades, and was finished in December 1970 with the line to Paderborn.

In 1984, Hamm started to see InterCity services calling at the station, and since the early 1990s ICE trains call at the station as well.

The marshalling yard, despite having been renovated in the 1960s, was partly closed after Deutsche Bundesbahn became the private Deutsche Bahn AG. Of the three humps originally present in the yard, two of them (near signal boxes Hro and Vmo) were closed; therefore, the marshalling yard nowadays only operates at 10% of its original 10,000 wagon per day capacity. The two depots and the maintenance works are operating at reduced capacity as well. The mail station, which even had its own hump, has been completely closed as mail trains were abolished soon after the privatization of the former Deutsche Bundespost in the early 1990s. The access tracks have been removed and the area was sold off to investors.

Station building
The station hall in its current incarnation was opened on October 14, 1920. It is a good example of the historism building style, reminiscent of the German Gründerzeit style and incorporating Jugendstil elements, designed by an unknown architect.

The building sustained damage to parts of the roof and the vault during World War II, but was swiftly rebuilt after the war. In 1985, the station hall was modernised in a contemporary style, and the front walls were cladded with sheet metal. A new ticket hall made of glass was also added into the main station hall. This, however, was regarded as typical 1980s camp as early as the mid-1990s, and the station therefore was properly restorated to its original state. Since the station hall had meanwhile become a listed building (in 1990), great attention was paid to detail. The station received the Europa Nostra Award in 2001 for the restoration effort.

Source: Wikipedia.com

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