also some Deutsche Bahn Intercity trains running through Nordstemmen station. With the great increase of freight transport since 2006, significantly more freight trains can be expected to run in the future. NordWestBahn runs hourly passenger trains on the Hildesheim–Hamelin line. Station area The station was built north of the former farming village of Nordstemmen on the road to Rössing. The tracks ran past the village to the west towards Elze. There were four unprotected crossings south of the station area in 1853, enabling access to the Nordstemmer Holz riparian forest to the west and from there over a rope bridge, which no longer exists, to Schulenburg. The road that is now called district road K 505 was built to Adensen in 1935. Nordstemmen station was initially opened as a through station on the Hanoverian Southern Railway from Hanover via Nordstemmen to Alfeld on 1 May 1853. With the opening of the line from Nordstemmen to Hildesheim by the Royal Hanoverian State Railways on 15 September 1853, the station became a railway junction, with the station building built on the wedge between the lines (German: Keilbahnhof) on an island between rail tracks without direct access to the street. The railway at that time carried in addition to passengers and checked baggage, freight, mail, parcels and telegrams. A station on an island was considered an advantage in 1853 as all trains could stop next to the entrance building on a single central platform and luggage could be loaded and unloaded between the entrance building and the trains without crossing tracks. In 1853, the station consisted of several buildings that were surrounded by tracks. The access to the station ran over the tracks and was blocked by a barrier; next to it there was a crossing keeper's house. Passengers were able to drive from the station to their destination by carriage. The station was expanded with numerous buildings. It was a major employer for Nordstemmen: a stationmaster, a cashier, a trainee, three telegraph operators, a storeroom manager, two wagon personnel, two loadmasters, a porter, seven shunting personnel and an assistant worked at the station in 1878. Nordstemmen had five sheep pens and was the destination of shepherds and sheep dealers who even travelled by train from the Netherlands to stay there and to buy or sell sheep. At the station's loading ramp there were brick stalls. When its gates were pulled up, the