Portal:Trains/Selected article/Week 21, 2007

Hamm (Westfalen) (often abbreviated Hamm (Westf) or simply Hamm (W)) is a railway station situated in the city of Hamm in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The station at Hamm was opened on May 2, 1847, when the first train of the Köln-Mindener Eisenbahn reached the city. A major reconstruction began in 1911 to expand the station facilities due to increased demand; a separate marshalling yard was built in the 1880s, the railway lines were put on elevated embankments, the trackbed inside the station was raised and the original station building was torn down and replaced with the current building. The station building was inspired by art deco and Gründerzeit building styles. The station is one of the important InterCityExpress rail hubs in the eastern Ruhr area and is among the high-profile buildings of Hamm.